Lydia Polgreen is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Huffington Post to join Gimlet Media as head of content, she announced Friday morning on Twitter.
Polgreen has led HuffPost for the last thee years, seeing it through a period of change and staff cuts under owner Verizon Media.
She had succeeded founder Arianna Huffington in the role. "I'm incredibly grateful to my extraordinary colleagues, and to the leadership of Verizon Media, which has championed HuffPost at a time when aggressive journalism that holds power to account is more necessary and more under threat than ever," she wrote on Twitter.
Her successor at HuffPost has not yet been named. "Lydia has been a valuable part of our Verizon Media family and we thank her for all of her.
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