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BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011. It ceased posting new hard news content in May 2023. It published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Steele dossier, for which it was strongly criticized, [1][2][3] and the FinCEN Files.
BuzzFeed, Inc. BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, [2] BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post, started as a co-founder ...
In 2022, shareholders urged Peretti to shut down BuzzFeed News; two anonymous sources told CNBC that BuzzFeed News lost about $10 million annually. [28] On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed under Peretti laid off 15% of its staff and shut down the BuzzFeed News division. In an email to staff on April 20, Peretti stated that the company overinvested in ...
BuzzFeed began in 2006 as a way of harnessing the virality of internet memes, and almost accidentally became a prominent force in investigative journalism, writes Bevan Hurley.
Buzzfeed News is set to close its doors after years of mounting financial difficulties, Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti told staff Thursday morning, marking the end of a click-chasing, social-media ...
BuzzFeed is shutting down its news operation, CEO Jonah Peretti told staff on Thursday. An internal email obtained by The Independent informed staff of the decision to close the news division and ...
Robert S. Smith (father) Dian Golston Smith (mother) Benjamin Eli Smith is an American journalist who is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, a news website he formed with Justin Smith in early 2022. He was previously a media columnist at The New York Times from 2020 to 2022. From 2011 to 2020, he was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting in 2021, is shutting down, in the latest sign of the economic challenges facing digital media companies attempting to deliver serious ...