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BuzzFeed News’ business model turned to dust because they were always at the whim of mercurial tech titans

BuzzFeed changed the way news was reported for the digital age. But it ultimately became a casualty of its lopsided relationship with Facebook

The Guardian - AU

Why BuzzFeed's founder reportedly turned down Bob Iger's offer of $650 million—10 years before killing his news division and laying off 15% of staff

According to BuzzFeed News’ former editor-in-chief Ben Smith, Iger was furious with Jonah Peretti for backing out of the deal.

Fortune

The digital graveyard: BuzzFeed News joins sites hanging on in eerie afterlife

The site will remain online as an archive, alongside the Gawker reboot, the Toast, and a host of other defunct outlets

The Guardian - US

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The Death of BuzzFeed News Was a Facebook Murder-Suicide

Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.

Reason

Why is Buzzfeed closing down its news site?

BuzzFeed is axing 15 per cent of its staff and closing down BuzzFeed News, due to the pandemic and a weak stock market

Evening Standard

Mary McNamara: From BuzzFeed to Netflix, digital media promised revolution. And a bloody business it's been

The time has come for us to stop using the term "digital revolution" in such a catchphrase-cute way, with the inevitable emphasis on "digital" and little thought for the meaning, and historical realities, of "revolution."

Los Angeles Times

Borrowers With High Credit Scores Penalized Under New Federal Mortgage Fee Plan

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BuzzFeed News shutters amid digital media reckoning

The internet publishing landscape shifted after tech firms changed their algorithms in the late 2010s.

Axios

‘Is Jonah Peretti axing himself too?’: Grief and anger among journalists as Buzzfeed News shuts down

Buzzfeed News is shutting down, and journalists took to social media last night to mourn its loss.

Newslaundry

BuzzFeed News to be shuttered in corporate cost-cutting move

CEO Jonah Peretti announced the shutdown of BuzzFeed’s Pulitzer-winning news division and cuts to 15% of its staff. The company will continue to publish news on HuffPost.

Chicago Sun-Times

From pee tapes to Pulitzers: The rise and fall of Buzzfeed News

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.

The Independent UK

BuzzFeed shutters its newsroom as the company undergoes layoffs

BuzzFeed News started in 2012 and grew to have more than 100 journalists across the world. Moving forward, BuzzFeed will concentrate news efforts in HuffPost, the company said.

WEKU

BuzzFeed News is shutting down as company cuts 15% of staff

BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting in 2021, is shutting down.

Los Angeles Times

BuzzFeed to shut down Pulitzer-winning news division

Pulitzer Prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division and cut another 15% of its staff across the company, adding to layoffs made earlier this year.

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Evening Standard

BuzzFeed to lay off 15% of staff and shut down news site

CEO Jonah Peretti said he ‘overinvested in BuzzFeed News’ and ‘can and will do better’

The Guardian - US

BuzzFeed News to close and parent company to make substantial layoffs

Chief executive Jonah Peretti says in company-wide email BuzzFeed ‘can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News’

Axios

BuzzFeed News to shut down

BuzzFeed cites management mistakes for company-wide struggles

Salon

Stop using AI to pitch stories

As magazines become overwhelmed by AI-generated emails, it isn’t a fun experiment. It’s extra work for humans

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Reason

Your Donations Make Reason an Island of Stability in a Turbulent Sea of Media

Ain't it grand to have a resilient libertarian journal of opinion?

The Independent UK

Child victim of incest was denied abortion in Florida, Planned Parenthood says

The providers say the state’s anti-abortion law has had “profound and terrible effects” on families in “desperate” situations

The Independent UK

Trump supporter throws beer can at comedian: ‘I could just tell by your jokes you voted for Biden’

‘To answer the most obvious question, yes, I did pick up what was left of the beer and chug it,’ tweeted comedian Ariel Elias while sharing a video of the incident where she was attacked by a heckler

Pedestrian.tv

Root Rat Tristan Khloé K Allegedly Got Engaged Twice, So We’ve Done A Deep Dive Into The Drama

Spoiler alert: the timeline is fkn messy.

Input

Planet of the Bored Apes: Inside the NFT world's biggest success story

Six months after their identities were revealed, the BAYC creators finally open up — and address the "f*cking evil" campaign against them.

Input

Amid data concerns, TikTok security officer steps down

Roland Cloutier will take on a “strategic advisory role.”

The Independent UK

Here are the companies covering abortion travel costs for employees post-Roe

A number of US companies have expanded healthcare plans to include travel expenses for abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade

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