{"id":143869,"date":"2016-11-21T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=143869"},"modified":"2016-11-21T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T08:43:27","slug":"huffington-post-launches-south-africa-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/143869\/huffington-post-launches-south-africa-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post launches South Africa edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post South Africa has launched, promising to offer its readers an insightful and honest view on local news.<\/p>\n<p>This is The Huffington Post\u2019s first venture into sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa being an \u201cextremely exciting market for the company\u201d, said HuffPost CEO Jared Grusd.<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post provides international content and its technology platform, while Media24 provides the local content and handles advertising sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lined up a team of people who are young, smart, passionate, and having the best time together after years in traditional newsrooms,\u201d said Verashni Pillay, Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve spent the three weeks running up to this launch really learning what it means to be fierce and fun, as our tagline puts it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/136991\/huffington-post-south-africa-launching-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post South Africa launching in November<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post South Africa has launched, promising to offer its readers an insightful and honest view on local news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":136995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-143869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143873,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143869\/revisions\/143873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}