Huffington Post

by Several Waves of Layoffs since the left-leaning digital news aggregator was sold to Verizon as part of a deal to buy the rest of AOL’s assets in 2015. Now, the New York Post is reporting that the telecoms giant, which engineered the acquisition as part of a larger content play, is shopping around for a buyer… But in one of the worst environments for bloated digital media outlets in ages, it appears Verizon is having trouble finding a seller. To be fair, HuffPo essentially came with the rest of the furniture during Verizon’s $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL, a deal that has proven about as disastrous as one might expect. Verizon has pitched the site to several companies, including Thrillist owner Group Nine Media, Rolling Stone published Penske Media, Bustle Digital Media and J2 Global, according to a report in Insider,…