In 1998, O'Reilly bought the rest of the company, and made Simon Kelner editor, launching a tabloid version in 2003.
Instagram followers: 35,500 Twitter followers: 110,000 Sasha Wilkins aka LibertyLondonGirl has turned her daily musings on everything from travel and fashion to beauty and food into a blogging success story, with the journalist and editor launching her cookbook last year.
In an opinion piece David Hoffman, its legal editor launches a scathing attack on the United States, contrasting the US double standards over WikiLeaks and the outing of the CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Israel-based Daria Shualy, a former fashion editor, launched the website Sense of Fashion this year with the intention of helping indie designers sell their wares and better communicate with customers.
Imagine an aggressive editor launching a new magazine.
Carr returned to Ace Books in 1984 as a freelance editor, launching a new series of Ace Specials devoted entirely to first novels.
That's why photographer Adam Goldberg (no connection to the HuffPost senior editor) launched the Pit Bull Picture Project, a series of doggie portraits featuring both people's pets and adoptable animals in shelters.
The Gawker editor launched a campaign to raise $200,000 to buy the video from the owner, which Cook named the "Rob Ford Crackstarter". By Tuesday afternoon, the campaign had raised more than $90,000.
Not only is Lorna Partington Walsh enhancing her creative writing by learning the ins and outs of editing, she's also helping other editors launch their careers in the field.
"A monstering from Murdoch's droogs is a terrible experience," Davies writes, going on to describe how, after the former Labour minister Clare Short criticized the Sun's daily Page 3 pictures of topless women (which jacked up newsstand sales), the editors launched a campaign to savage Short.
