Buzzfeed Raises $15M to Bolster Growing Editorial Vision
BuzzFeed’s new editor has $15 million to play with. The social-driven website known for viral videos and memes surprised many in December when it announced Ben Smith, one of Politico’s star reporters...
View ArticleNew York Times, BuzzFeed Team Up for Presidential Conventions
Old media is getting an assist from new as the presidential election heats up. The New York Times, bastion of print journalism, is partnering with BuzzFeed, curator of all things viral, to expand its...
View ArticleBuzzFeed to Open Washington, D.C. Bureau, Hires Two Reporters
Gone are the days when BuzzFeed was a mere aggregator of social-savvy click candy, its verticals dominated by user-shared memes and animal pictures. A day ago, the curator of all things viral announced...
View ArticleKen Lerer Names Top-Tier Editorial Team for New Video News Venture
NowThis News, the new digital video network backed by Kenneth Lerer, announced an all-star editorial team filled with veterans of old media titans like CNN and ABC News. Eason Jordan, former CNN chief...
View ArticleJeff Greenspan Named Chief Creative Officer at BuzzFeed
Jeff Greenspan has been named chief creative officer at BuzzFeed, the company announced Wednesday. Greenspan was most recently communication designer at Facebook, helping brands and advertising...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Goes Hollywood, Hires Richard Rushfield, Kate Aurthur
BuzzFeed is going Hollywood. Sensing an opportunity amidst a crowded group of Hollywood trade publications, the social news site is opening a Los Angeles bureau and has tapped two veteran entertainment...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Takes Down Gawker, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post
Gawker Media sites — along with the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed — went down Monday as Hurricane Sandy flooded New York City. The network of eight Gawker blogs went offline when servers in both its...
View ArticleOutcry Over Ryan Gosling’s Sexiest Man Alive Snub Significantly Subdued This...
If people were pissed when Bradley Cooper was named Sexiest Man Alive instead of Ryan Gosling in 2011, you'd think they would be doubly pissed that the "Drive" star was once again snubbed in 2012....
View ArticleBuzzFeed Secures $19.3M in Funding
BuzzFeed secured $19.3 million in a new round of financing on Thursday led by the investment firm New Enterprise Associates. Earlier investors, including Hearst, SoftBank, the New York-based venture...
View ArticleHow BuzzFeed Is Betting on Hollywood, Long-Form Writing to Grow
Last January, BuzzFeed, then an aggregator of memes and cat videos, secured a $15.5 million round of venture capital to beef up a craft that most traditional media was downsizing: journalism. It hired...
View ArticleMichael Moore, ’5 Broken Cameras’ Director Hit Back at BuzzFeed LAX Story...
Michael Moore and Palestinian director Emad Burnat are hitting back at a recent BuzzFeed story that questioned their accounts of an incident with U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week at Los...
View ArticleCNN, BuzzFeed Team Up for YouTube Video Venture
CNN, one of the most trusted brands in the news industry, is teaming up with BuzzFeed to edify the internet generation. The two companies have joined together to launch a new YouTube channel, dubbed...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Journalist Michael Hastings Dead at 33
BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings died Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. He was 33. BuzzFeed reported in a statement that Hastings was killed in a car accident. Media reports indicate that the accident...
View ArticleLAPD Confirms Michael Hastings as Crash Victim, Revealing Email Emerges (Video)
LAPD has officially identified journalist Michael Hastings as the victim who died in Tuesday’s fatal car crash on Highland Avenue in Los Angeles. A statement released by the police on Saturday said,...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Hires Its First Foreign Correspondent
BuzzFeed's international coverage has officially begun. Max Seddon, of the Associated Press, has been tapped as the site's first foreign correspondent. The hire comes just one month after Miriam Elder...
View ArticleComic-Con 2013 Preview: The 12 Parties Not to Miss in San Diego
In honor of BuzzFeed’s inaugural party at "the Con", treat the following listicle as your field guide to the most choice events that everyone will be talking about 120 miles to the south this weekend....
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Tries to Turn His Bad Image Around With F-Bombs and Anti-Press...
Anthony Weiner made another stop on his mayoral campaign trail, sitting down with BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith for a far-ranging interview full of awkward and cringeworthy moments, complete with...
View ArticleMichael Hastings’ Family Chides Media for Inaccuracies, Guards His Legacy
In the wake of the L.A. County Coroner's report concluding that BuzzFeed journalist Michael Hastings' death was an accident, his family is speaking out about inaccurate media reports surrounding the...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Dominates on Facebook, BBC Tops Twitter, Study Says
BuzzFeed, “the media company for the social age,” has mastered at least one social network. A NewsWhip study released on Thursday showed that the social sharing-focused site had far and away the most...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Fires ‘Copyranter’: ‘Wasn’t BuzzFeedy Enough’
Mark Duffy, best known by his nom de plume “Copyranter,” has been fired from BuzzFeed, he tweeted on Friday. “Got fired from BuzzFeed this week (my content wasn’t “BuzzFeedy” enough). Already...
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