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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: ‘Our Reporters Are Doing the Kind of Work Reporters...
In the first part of our three-part Media Beat interview with Jonah Peretti, the BuzzFeed founder discusses how his company is becoming a full-scale news organization following a flurry of recent...
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Watch: Jonah Peretti Describes Launching The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed
In the final part of our three-part “Media Beat” interview with Jonah Peretti, the internet entrepreneur talks about launching The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. “I wasn’t sure if it would be a big...
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Richard Rushfield to Head New BuzzFeed LA Bureau
BuzzFeed is expanding its reach to Hollywood with a well-stocked Los Angeles bureau. Richard Rushfield, former entertainment editor for LATimes.com and west coast editor of Gawker, will sit at the...
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Old Media Kicking Ass on Facebook
What you’re looking at is part of a chart of the media websites with the most shared and liked content on Facebook (click for full version.) While Huffington Post leads the pack, it’s worth noting that...
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BREAKING: BuzzFeed Uses Twitter to Interview Moviegoers Trapped by...
Approximately 200 moviegoers are trapped inside the Rave movie theater at the Howard Hughes Center mall in Westchester due to a hostage situation at the Nordstrom Rack next door. The SWAT team is...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: New Politico CEO Named | SciAm Apologizes | BuzzFeed...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Jim VandeHei Named President, CEO of Politico And Capital New York (Politico / Dylan Byers on Media) Politico co-founder and...
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Glenn Greenwald Leaving Guardian for ‘Once-in-a-Career Dream Journalistic...
Some very big journalism news is being broken this afternoon by BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith. Although major details are still to be announced, the gist is that Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian:...
View ArticleJonah Peretti, Studio Mogul?
That’s how the BuzzFeed founder may soon be viewed on the west coast and beyond, per his recent conversation with LA Times reporter Andrea Chang. The company recently moved its west coast office to a...
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Mark Schoofs Leaves ProPublica for BuzzFeed
Mark Schoofs, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, is leaving ProPublica for BuzzFeed, where he’ll lead the site’s investigative unit. The New York Times reports that at BuzzFeed, Schoofs will...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: AP’s Bob Lewis Fired | Netflix Subs Top HBO | Pogue...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Associated Press Fires Journalists Over Erroneous Terry McAuliffe Report (HuffPost / The Backstory) The Associated Press has fired...
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Jonah Peretti Prefers BuzzFeed Garbage to Other Garbage
Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed, only enjoys one specific type of garbage. Allow us to explain. During his speech at the American Magazine Media Conference, Peretti condemned sites for being slaves...
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Business Insider Welcomes Four New Media Figures to the ‘Silicon Alley 100′
The website’s annual “Silicon Alley 100″ list is set to post Thursday at 8 a.m. However, to whet everyone’s appetite, the BI folks were kind enough to give FishbowlNY an advance peek at the media folks...
View ArticleSketch Comedy Group Shares Some ‘Office Vacation’ Secrets
For many in the Naked City, times are still tough. But as members of comedy troupe Local Empire demonstrate in the video below, that doesn’t mean you have to forego a nice, relaxing vacation. All you...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: PDaily Buys NSFW Corp | Duffy Slams BuzzFeed | NYT...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. PandoDaily Acquires NSFW Corp to Double Down on Investigative Reporting (PandoDaily) There are three people who have long been on...
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That Kid He Mugged in the Seventies is Now a Sag Harbor Life Coach
On the home page for The BraveHeart Institute, construction firm manager turned life coach Claude Soffel (pictured) summarizes his methodology as follows: Our philosophy is simple: we believe that in...
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BuzzFeed Celebrates Record-Breaking November
The funniest part of today’s BuzzFeed announcement about the site having welcomed a jaw-dropping 130-million-plus unique visitors last month is the following sentence: As first reported by BuzzFeed,...
View ArticleSamantha Bee Pays a Visit to the New York Times
Why haven’t other media outlets picked up on the incredible October 22 Bloomberg Businessweek story about some shady, profitable Wall Street maneuvers involving NYC equity firm Blackstone and Spanish...
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BuzzFeed, DuJour Media Group Form Strategic Partnership
A small milestone has been added to BuzzFeed’s inexorable, awesome-in-19-different-ways march towards world media domination. Starting next spring, the website and DuJour Media Group will begin...
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Wired Puts Jonah Peretti on the Cover
Is there, at this point, anything left to learn about BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and the inner workings of his Wonka-esque viral factory? Let’s take a look. For the February Wired UK cover story,...
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Clinton Spokesperson Provides Stupid Answers for BuzzFeed’s Stupid Questions
During a speech on Monday, Hillary Clinton mentioned how she hadn’t driven a car since 1996. A political editor at BuzzFeed thought this comment opened the door to send several stupid follow-up...
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