Fox Business’ Liz Claman Talks #BlackMonday, Cord-Cutting, Big Media...
As the stock market roller coaster continued Monday, business journalists were on high alert as they reported on what really warrants panicking and what is just market jitters run amok. Fox Business’...
View ArticleIs the 24/7 Media Echo Chamber Intimidating Student Journalists?
Are journalism students going soft or getting sloppy under the onslaught of 24/7 news and the social media echo chamber? Journalism professor Mark Feldstein wondered about this when he led a heated...
View ArticleBuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Denies Stealing Content in Open Letter to Akilah
BuzzFeed’s co-founder and CEO, Jonah Peretti, penned an open letter to Akilah Hughes in which he denied that his company stole content from online creators. Hughes, a YouTube personality and content...
View ArticleWho Needs Reporters? BuzzFeed Deploys Bot to Help Cover GOP Convention
BuzzFeed is trying out a new technology to free up its reporters at the Republican National Convention. The digital site on Sunday launched an automated chatbot for Facebook’s Messenger app that is...
View ArticleHow BuzzFeed, Tastemade and Food Network Use Social Media to Make Cooking Cool
It’s official: Cooking is cool again. If you’re a regular on social media, chances are you’ve scrolled across an oddly fascinating, short video clip of someone — or rather, someone’s hands — cooking a...
View ArticleWatch BuzzFeed Vet Brittany Ashley in ‘Pokemon Go to Your Ex’s House’ (Video)
Pokémon Go To Your Exes House - watch more funny videosJust two months after being let go from BuzzFeed Video for appearing in a web series produced by America Ferrera, BuzzFeed alum Brittany Ashley is...
View ArticleBuzzFeed v CNN: How One Snarky Comment Ignited a Fight Over the Future of News
When CNN chief Jeff Zucker told a reporter earlier this month he didn’t think BuzzFeed and Vice were “legitimate news organizations,” BuzzFeed had a spiky rebuttal: If BuzzFeed is so bad, why is CNN...
View ArticleBuzzFeed to Reorganize With Separate News, Entertainment Divisions
BuzzFeed is about to separate its news and entertainment divisions in a company-wide shakeup. CEO Jonah Peretti sent a memo to staffers on Tuesday outlining the changes, which will see the formation of...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Motion Pictures Sells 2 New Quinta Brunson Series (Exclusive)
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures’ plot to take over the world of digital video is coming along well. Comedian and BFMP producer Quinta Brunson has now sold two series — one for YouTube Red, and another for...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Teams Up With Keshet for New Digital Game Show
BuzzFeed and Keshet Studios, a subsidiary of the Israeli company which created the series that inspired “Homeland,” are teaming up on another out-of-Israel adaptation — this time, a digital game show....
View ArticleIvanka Trump Slams BuzzFeed’s ‘Mulatto C–k’ Report as a ‘Total Lie’
Ivanka Trump would like it to be known: She never said that she’d like to see a mulatto c–k. At least not in the presence of BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. The daughter of GOP presidential candidate...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Gets Another $200M From NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal has made an additional $200 million investment in BuzzFeed, the two companies confirmed in a Monday statement. Recode reported the investment last month, saying it valued the digital...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Sponsored Content Chief Leaves Company
BuzzFeed Chief Marketing and Chief Creative Officer Frank Cooper is leaving the company, TheWrap has learned. Cooper is departing less than two years after taking over Buzzfeed’s creative services...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Reporter’s ‘Fixer Upper’ Story Ripped as ‘Bigoted Intolerant Hatred’
BuzzFeed entertainment journalist Kate Aurthur posted a story earlier this week wondering if “Fixer Upper” hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines might be anti-gay. Her through-line centered on the HGTV couple’s...
View ArticleDonald Trump To Host Quincy Jones, Sylvester Stallone at New Year’s Bash
President-elect Donald Trump will ring in the New Year with a party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, with guests including Quincy Jones and Sylvester Stallone. Transition team spokeswoman Hope...
View ArticleCNN Digital’s 2017 Plans Include App Reboot, More Brian Stelter and K-File
CNN Digital’s New Year’s resolutions include upgrading its app and giving much better platforms to two of its stars, media correspondent Brian Stelter and former Buzzfeed investigator Andrew Kaczynski....
View ArticleHere’s Why ‘Golden Showers’ Is Trending (Yes, It Involves Trump)
If you were a little horrified to find that #GoldenShowers is trending on Twitter today, we’re here to help explain why. And yes, it involves President-elect Donald Trump. BuzzFeed reported Tuesday...
View ArticleRead Patton Oswalt’s Trump-‘Golden Showers’ Play-by-Play on Twitter
Comedian Patton Oswalt had a field day with the hashtag #GoldenShowers after it became a trend on Twitter on Thursday, giving a play-by-play of the hashtag overtaking other trending topics. “Can...
View ArticleHere’s Why BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith Published the ‘Golden Showers’ Dossier
BuzzFeed sent the internet into a frenzy when it published a collection of memos accusing President-elect Donald Trump of improper contact with Russian officials — and alleging the former reality TV...
View ArticleTrump-‘Golden Showers’ Claim Floods Social Media With R Kelly, ‘Trickle-Down’...
After a gagging on a collective wave of nausea, social media had a free-for-all with unproven allegations that President-elect Donald Trump at one point paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept...
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