Gawker's Nick Denton Picks Fight With BuzzFeed, Calls Website ‘Pointless’
Gawker has BuzzFeed in its snarky crosshairs. The website's founder Nick Denton held an online meeting on Tuesday and singled out the listicle-loving social content sharing website as its chief rival....
View ArticleShocking Study! Democrats Willing to Spend More Money Than Republicans
As MSNBC and Fox News watchers can attest, there's a partisan divide when it comes to news. Political polarization is playing out on more than just the cable airwaves. Various news sources are being...
View Article‘The Wolf of BuzzFeed’ Hilariously Lampoons the Cat-Loving Website and Jonah...
What if Jordan Belfort had been more into cats and the 90s? Half Day Today explores that question in a funny new satirical trailer entitled “The Wolf of BuzzFeed.” Also read: Gawker's Nick Denton Picks...
View ArticleGawker Rips Buzzfeed in Ban on ‘WTF,’‘Epic’ and Other Internet Slang From Its...
OMG, this happened. Gawker's newest editor-in-chief, Max Read, sent a memo to his website's staff this week banning internet slang and slamming BuzzFeed. Read told TheWrap the guidelines weren't...
View ArticleMadonna Invades BuzzFeed Offices to Promote Art For Freedom Project
Madonna dropped in at BuzzFeed's New York offices Monday evening and commandeered one of their computers to comment on submissions to ArtForFreedom, a “platform to define what freedom means to them and...
View ArticleDisney Tried to Acquire BuzzFeed
Keep an eye out on Facebook for BuzzFeed's next listacle: 21 Reasons Disney Didn't Acquire Us. Fortune reports that the Walt Disney Co. was in negotiations earlier this year to acquire the media outlet...
View ArticleConde Nast Launching Video Channels for New Yorker, Lucky and Bon Appetit
Condé Nast Entertainment revealed Tuesday the next phase of their digital expansion with new video platform, The Scene, the industry's first platform devoted to curating and showcasing premium...
View ArticleIs the New York Times Losing Its Luster? A Slew of High Profile Departures...
Is the New York Times losing its cachet? A slew of high-profile departures from what was once the most prestigious address in journalism seems to be signaling something more than just old-fashioned...
View ArticleBuzzFeed's Former ‘Copyranter’ Rants About Being Fired: ‘They Shouldn't Have...
Mark Duffy, a copywriter-turned-ad critic, was fired from BuzzFeed last month, and now he has written a “BuzzFeedy listicle” to countdown 10 “possible” reasons he was fired. The possibilities Duffy...
View ArticleComedy Central's ‘@midnight’ Wants Jon Hamm, Shares Complicated Relationship...
In almost the same breath as he declared BuzzFeed one of the show's favorite websites, “@midnight” host Chris Hardwick called out the pop culture site for not sending any representatives to the...
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....
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