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.

This is a breaking story and will be updated

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What a loss. Troons and fat heifers with their makeup tutorials, bullshit quizzes were you can decide if you’re a huffleshit or slithergay, endless advertising for Amazon shit products made by children in sweatshops in China, political opinions copied from retarded individuals etc.
I hope this shit will cease to exist, unfortunately, there are other sites to replace this shit.
 
Brutality said:
On a serious note, I'll miss all those cringe videos they used to make about "manspreading" or whatever. Those videos gave me countless laughs over the years

Bye Bye BuzzSneed. You're gone but never forgotten.
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Read the title newfag, buzzfeed NEWS is the only thing closing down. The rest will still be up
 
breadandcircuses said:
Don't Buzzfeed News have a union? Surely it can protect against this, right?

It certainly wasn't agitprop from Buzzfeed's parent company to convince their pinko Commie writers to shut up and instead be declawed and toothless?

Right!?
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Turns out unions don't protect you from the company going under. They can't trim head count or cut back on benes so instead of a few people losing their jobs everyone does.
 
They're the guys who broke the news that the plot to kidnap Gretch Whitmer was FBI entrapment, even if they publish trash they're still honest and willing to do what others aren't. Or at least they WERE.

This is actually bad.
 
I had actually forgotten about buzzfeed until now. I guess appealing to trannies really gave them a niche.
 
And nothing of value was lost
inb4 mandatory paywall on all buzzfeed owned media

It's about time for them to buzz off.
 
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