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Arianna Huffington arrives at the OurTime.org Inaugural Youth Ball Generation Now Party on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Washington. (Photo by Nick Wass/Invision/AP)
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Arianna Huffington to be Smith College commencement speaker
Commencement will be on May 19
Updated: Wednesday, 27 Feb 2013, 11:22 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 27 Feb 2013, 11:22 AM EST
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Internet news site has been named the keynote speaker at Smith College's 2013 commencement.
Students at the prestigious women's college in Northampton met the announcement with cheers.
Huffington is most commonly associated with the news website that she launched in May 2005, redefining web journalism.
The website won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for national reporting for its 10-part series about wounded veterans, " Beyond the Battlefield."
Huffington is also a philanthropist and political commentator.
Huffington is among four people who will receive honorary degrees at the college's 135th commencement on May 19.
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