Liz Heron is set to join The Huffington Post as executive editor. In her new role, she will oversee editorial strategy and audience development and will report directly to editor in chief Arianna Huffington as second-in-command. Heron comes to HuffPo from Facebook, where she served as head of news partnerships since April 2014. Prior to that, she worked at The Wall Street Journal serving as director of social media engagement and editor of emerging media and audience development. Follow HuffPo on Twitter for the latest breaking news updates.
We're so excited to welcome @lheron as our new executive editor! http://t.co/QApYwYd9FA
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) September 29, 2015
Thank you, @ariannahuff, for the opportunity to join you in this new HuffPost chapter http://t.co/6cFTlqCQTM
— Liz Heron (@lheron) September 29, 2015