New 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 ArticleBuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith Details All 41 Instances of Political Reporter's...
When so many people have access to Google, it's tough to get away with plagiarising others’ work, as BuzzFeed political writer Benny Johnson found out Friday. Allegations that Johnson was using...
View ArticleLeaked $100,000 Bryan Singer-Michael Egan Sex Abuse Settlement Could Still...
The Bryan Singer-Michael Egan sex abuse case took a bizarre turn Tuesday when alleged settlement documents from June were released in an explosive report. The supposed memorandum of settlement,...
View ArticleNew York Times Issues Response to Wikipedia Plagiarism Charge
The New York Times issued a response Wednesday to claims that one of its writers, Carol Vogel, had plagiarized a passage from Wikipedia. In a note from an editor at the newspaper, it was determined...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Raises $50 Million for Expansion, Motion Picture Division
BuzzFeed, the online news site that built a massive following off of news lists and cat videos, has raised $50 million for expansion that will making movies. The capital was contributed by the leading...
View ArticleMichael Shamberg, Jordan Peele Join BuzzFeed as Part of Major Expansion
Producer Michael Shamberg and actor/comedian Jordan Peele are joining BuzzFeed Motion Pictures as advisers as part of the company's major expansion. Peele, one half of Comedy Central's “Key &...
View ArticleDo Print Spinoffs Spell Death of U.S. Newspapers? No and Here's Why
There's a new round of discussion underway about the death of American newspapers. The eulogizing this time has been prompted by a series of spinoffs of print companies from larger media conglomerates...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Plagiarist Benny Johnson Hired By National Review
BuzzFeed political reporter Benny Johnson was fired in July in the wake of a serial plagiarism scandal. He found a new job recently as the social media director of the National Review Online, one of...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Taps Andrew Gauthier to Lead Video Division
BuzzFeed has named Andrew Gauthier executive producer of BuzzFeed Video, overseeing a team of producers to create episodic video content, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap....
View ArticleTheGrill: Innovators Talk Opportunities, Pitfalls for Video Content in the...
Creating digital content in the age of digital can be an extremely liberating experience for young filmmakers — but it can also pose numerous challenges when digital and traditional media are still...
View ArticleShocker! Liberals Favor CNN, NPR, NY Times While Conservatives Favor Fox News
A Pew Research Center study released Tuesday shows a stark difference in media consumption when it comes to liberals and conservatives. Also read: Fox News Viewers Also Watch MSNBC, Study Says The...
View ArticleFacebook Filtering Users’ Political Views; Sharing With News Organizations
Many Facebook users post their opinions on politics, but now, the network will be sorting through your ideological leanings whether you share them or not. Also read: Facebook Launches New Journalism...
View ArticleUber Senior Executive Outlines Plan to Expose Journalists’ Personal Lives
Uber senior vice president for business Emil Michael suggested that his company should explore digging up dirt on members of the media, and especially those who are critical of the vehicles-for-hire...
View ArticleUber Chief Apologizes for Senior Executive's ‘Terrible’ Attack on Journalists
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick publicly apologized Tuesday for the words and actions of his employee Emil Michael, the senior vice president for business who recently suggested the vehicle-for-hire company...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Channeling Inner-Oprah: You Get a Watch, You Get a Watch!
Forget traffic bonuses in cold hard cash–BuzzFeed is tapping into the iEverything generation to incentivize and thank staffers. Also read: Uber Senior Executive Outlines Plan to Expose Journalists'...
View ArticleInside New Republic’s Demolition: Former Editors Blast Owner Chris Hughes as...
New Republic owner Chris Hughes is under attack from the journalism community for killing, executing and – fill in your own deadly verb – the 100-year-old magazine. In several media pieces, journalists...
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