The Tyee: Tell Us Please. What Are the Conversations We Should Be Having? https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2023/05/24/Tell-Tyee-What-Conversations-We-Should-Have/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #TheProvinceNewspaper #SolutionsJournalism #TheVancouverSun #Tyeemembership #ViceMediaGroup #BuzzFeedNews #TyeeBuilders

I'm sure I'm not the only one recommending this but don't miss the oral history of #buzzfeednews

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/buzzfeed-news-oral-history-2012-2023

Absolutely adored the #CanadaLand Shortcuts episode this morning.

Jesse Brown (who is stubbornly not yet on Mastodon) had a terrific rant about the future of journalism in the wake of #BuzzfeedNews shutting down and the impending death of #Vice that I think applies equally well #Fedi life.

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/881-death-of-the-viral-news-site/

@Mediagazer Significant point in article: 'General interest news is difficult to sell subscriptions against....'

#DigitalJournalism #BuzzFeedNews #journalism #BuzzFeed

Book Review: Why BuzzFeed Joines Gawker in Internet News Graveyard

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/21/traffic-buzzfeed-gawker-ben-smith/ via WaPo
Photo: Media Bistro

#Traffic #TrafficBook #BenSmith #Buzzfeed #BuzzfeedNews #Gawker #Journalism #News

Je n'avais pas vu ça passer. Le site BuzzFeed News va fermer.

#BuzzFeed #BuzzFeedNews

https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/medias/2023-04-20/symbole-des-nouveaux-medias-de-l-internet-le-site-buzzfeed-news-va-fermer.php

#BuzzFeedNews is shutting down as company cuts 15% of staff

https://flip.it/Cq.AVy

#BuzzFeedNews to shut down, as CEO cites missteps

BuzzFeed News won multiple awards including a Pulitzer Prize. Journalists inside and outside the organization publicly expressed sadness that the respected news outlet was finished.

In a memo to staff, CEO #JonahPeretti took a large part of the blame for the news division's downfall.

#BuzzFeed #Journalism
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/buzzfeed-news-shut-down-layoffs

Digital media falls
As BuzzFeed shuts its doors, fate bleeds
Sad news come around

#buzzfeednews #digitalmedia #mediaindustry #haiku #poetry

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/20/23691852/buzzfeed-news-rip-digital-media-industry

"Every newsroom I have ever worked in made money; the issue, then, now and always, would be that stockholders had wanted more." Greed and the death of #BuzzfeedNews https://defector.com/greed-is-still-the-problem

Thank you, #BuzzfeedNews for great journalism and caring about #PuertoRico

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/puerto-rico-cremations

As Charlie said elsewhere, #BuzzfeedNews shutting down on the same day that #Twitter removed verification really makes today feel like the end of the 2010s.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/04/buzzfeed-news-end-political-influence-cultural-impact/673803/

So #BuzzfeedNews is being shut down.

It's done stellar reporting, won a Pulitzer, and so on and so forth--but it didn't make enough money for the parent company, so the needs of the public go out the window.

We need public news, and we need more than one (NPR has it's own problems)

Those who control what the public knows control the public--that's why twitter's destruction harms democracy. This is just the next.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-gop-leader-who-voted-to-expel-tennessee-three-found-guilty-of-sexually-harassing-interns

While I can't say this shutdown is a surprise, it still really sucks. Buzzfeed News did great work, and its people deserved better.

#BuzzfeedNews #journalism #NewsMedia #layoffs

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/buzzfeed-news-closed-180-staffers-laid-off/

#BuzzFeedNews, der mit dem #Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Nachrichtenzweig von BuzzFeed.com, wird geschlossen, teilte #BuzzFeed-CEO Jonah Peretti am Donnerstag den Mitarbeitern mit.

"Während es in fast allen Abteilungen zu Entlassungen kommt, haben wir festgestellt, dass das Unternehmen BuzzFeed News nicht länger als eigenständige Organisation finanzieren kann", schrieb Peretti in einem Memo

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23691169/buzzfeed-news-shut-down-jonah-peretti-memo

#BuzzFeedNews, a pioneering digital news site that won a #Pulitzer Prize, will close after 12 years.
In a staff memo, Jonah Peretti, the site’s co-founder and chief executive, said his company would lay off 15 percent of its employees.
#BuzzFeed and its sister publication, #HuffPost, will continue, but the news site will be wound down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/20/buzzfeed-news-closing/

#QOD on wider implications of #buzzfeednews shutdown from @semaforben: “It’s the end of the marriage between social media and news.”
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RT @nytimes
Breaking News: BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division, BuzzFeed News, as part of an effort to cut the company’s work force by 15%, the chief executive said. https://nyti.ms/41nXMOh
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1649076365344292864

#QOD on wider implications of #buzzfeednews shutdown from @semaforben: “It’s the end of the marriage between social media and news.”
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RT @nytimes
Breaking News: BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division, BuzzFeed News, as part of an effort to cut the company’s work force by 15%, the chief executive said. https://nyti.ms/41nXMOh
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1649076365344292864

NEWS: BuzzFeed News is being shut down.

BuzzFeed boss @peretti just sent out a note to staff, announcing the shuttering of BuzzFeed News is part of layoffs where 15% of staffers are being cut across the company. Peretti says, "For BuzzFeed News, we have begun discussions with the News Guild about these actions."

HuffPost and BuzzFeed Dot Com have signaled that they will open a number of select roles for members of BuzzFeed News," @peretti says.

#BuzzFeedNews
#LockharTVMedia

#BuzzfeedNews is shutting down.

Pretty remarkable how deep the brands that a decade ago were hailed as the saviours of journalism for millenials and beyond have fallen. #Vice is also on it's last legs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/buzzfeed-news-is-shutting-down