You’ve called your father a newspaperman. What did he do?

I grew up with my father starting small newspapers in Greece. None of them survived. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I’ve never had any desire to have Huff Post have a print component.

There’s much hand-wringing about the death of print, with The Huffington Post often cited as a culprit. What do you suppose your father would have said about The Huffington Post?

I think he would have known perfectly well that, as I said in my five-word acceptance one of the years we got a Webby award, “I didn’t kill newspapers, darling.” It wasn’t The Huffington Post; it was Craigslist; it was new technologies.

You’ve been saying recently that The Huffington Post is not a lefty publication?

Actually I’ve been saying that for three years. The tag line that we’ve used a lot is “Beyond left and right.”

Three years ago was 2008. I looked at The Huffington Post a great deal during the election. It felt like the Internet version of Keith Olbermann’s show, and if that’s not lefty. . . .

Why don’t you be more specific? What were the messages that you considered lefty?