Culture BREAKING: Buzzfeed News to shut down

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Featured on Apr 20, 2023 by Null: Buzzfeed is downsizing and Buzzfeed News is being closed.
Hannah Nightingale
Apr 20, 2023

On Thursday, Buzzfeed News announced that it would be shutting down, with CRO Edgar Hernandez and COO leaving the company and layoffs being announced.

In an email from Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti, said, "we are reducing our workforce by approximately 15 percent today across our Business, Content, Tech, and Admin teams, and beginning the process of closing Buzzfeed News.

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"Additionally, we are proposing headcount reductions in some international markets," the email added.

Peretti said that Hernandez and Baesler have left the company, with President Marcela Martin taking on "responsibility for all revenue functions effective immediately."

"While layoffs are occurring across nearly every division, we’ve determined that the company can no longer continue to fund Buzzfeed News…" Peretti wrote.

Peretti stated that "HuffPost and Buzzfeed Dot Com have signaled that they will open a number of select roles for members of Buzzfeed News. These rules will be aligned with those divisions’ business goals and match the skills and strengths of many of Buzzfeed NEws’s editors and reporters."

"We raised this idea with the News Guild this morning and look forward to discussing it further. Moving forward, we will have a single news brand in HuffPost, which is profitable, with a loyal direct front page audience."

Peretti explained that the decision to shut down the news branch of the company came about because of the pandemic, "a fading SPAC marked that yielded less capital, a tech recession, a tough economy, a declining stock market, a decelerating digital advertising marked and ongoing audience and platform shifts."

"Dealing with all of these obstacles at once is part of why we’ve needed to make the difficult decisions to eliminate more jobs and reduce spending," he added.

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This only started because joe Bernstein interviewed Sam Hyde 7 years ago. This was a long term self defense situation, and Sam came out on top again.
Rest in piss buzzshit
 
The less sites pushing propaganda, the bettter.

(also I somehow doubt I would miss Buzzfeed...)
 
Another company having to shut down stuff because they're going broke due to woke politics? Say it ain't so! I guess the Dems have to many journo's and bloggers on their payroll so they have to cut some loose.
 
Oh no what will midget Brunson and the Try Fags do now.....hopefully this puts the latter out of media forever.

Lying journoscum. All this plus the blue check marks massacre on Twitter. What a glorious day.

From The Uncanny Valley said:
CRACKED NEXT. PLEASE GOD.
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Don't forget IGN, The Mary Sue, Advocate, ANN, and Floptaku. Oh and you might as well include i09 and those other hellscapes. What other sites am I missing?
 
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I was only vaguely aware that BuzzFeed has news and was even more suprised to learn it was still around. I guess the whole 4 people that eagerly watch them will just halfto switch to CNN MSNBC or any of the countless other sources of leftwing propaganda that exist.
 
I heard Buzzfeed bought Huffington Post with the intent of replacing Buzzfeed News with that. Is that incorrect?
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Oh no what will midget Brunson and the Try Fags do now.....hopefully this puts the latter out of media forever.

Lying journoscum. All this plus the blue check marks massacre on Twitter. What a glorious day.


Don't forget IGN, The Mary Sue, Advocate, ANN, and Floptaku. Oh and you might as well include i09 and those other hellscapes. What other sites am I missing?
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PC gaming. Most of the video game media sites have gone to shit. They can all go away. They aren't needed anymore. YouTubers do a better job. Many of them run forums that are dead or nearly dead.
 
CuzinEd said:
This is what happens when you start pushing articles with shitty leftist SJW agendas and you spend a decade depending on outrage clickbaiting Boomer tier dumb fucks. All while ignoring the rise of adblocking.

Fuck off faggots. Go die in the streets.

This is what I want to see. All these faggots unemployed broke having lost everything they own living in the streets depressed and considering suicide.
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Look these people thought it was funny middle American joe was losing his family, religion, and livelihood. They laughed as their kids got raped and propagandized by the public schools. They always fantasize about dumb right wing tubes being killed. I personally hope they all burn, I hope all the journo scum and their mentally ill readership troon out and kill themselves and do a flip while doing so.

Rest in piss buzzfeed you won't be missed Bozo.
 
LeChampion1992 said:
Look these people thought it was funny middle American joe was losing his family, religion, and livelihood. They laughed as their kids got raped and propagandized by the public schools. They always fantasize about dumb right wing tubes being killed. I personally hope they all burn, I hope all the journo scum and their mentally ill readership troon out and kill themselves and do a flip while doing so.

Rest in piss buzzfeed you won't be missed Bozo.
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It's more likely their lives will be upended by economics and financial situations. Hopefully they kill themselves when they have to get a real a job.
 
Da Brony Unchained said:
What do you guys think about the future of journalism? I’ve talked to some folks in media and I always tell them that people are seemingly leaning towards influencers and content creators on youtube than them, because corpo journos capitulate to sponsors. They don’t seem to like it when I tell them that. Media seems to be a dying medium, at already a senile extreme.
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Most journalists are already just reposting corporate press statements, and most of their original work is just Op Ed masquerading as 'informed opinion'. People are sick of "anonymous sources" that just happen to parrot the Author's personal politics. They can get people who actually understand an issue talking about it on youtube.

They should have been thinking ahead and done whatever it took to get Trump Reelected, because without him they aren't selling shit.
 
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