In a world where nothing can be trusted and fake news abounds, ICO and crypto teams are further muddying the waters by trying – and often failing – to pay for posts. While bribes for blogs is nothing new, sadly the current crop of ICO creators and crypto projects are particularly interested in scaling fast […]
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BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalism
It’s not news at this point that BuzzFeed has a serious news organization — one whose reporting on Russia made it a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize this year. But it’s also a news organization whose stories are published alongside the social media friendly quizzes and lists that BuzzFeed remains known for — which can […]
View More BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalismRipple is going after startups to build an ecosystem around the XRP cryptocurrency
It’s finally happening. Ripple is making a push to expand the use of the XRP cryptocurrency it created into new verticals and segments beyond the payment and banking space where the company is focused. XRP is the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency behind only bitcoin, the original breakout artist, and Ethereum, the platform that most developers pomp for. XRP […]
View More Ripple is going after startups to build an ecosystem around the XRP cryptocurrencyBuzzFeed built its own editing tool for short, meme-y videos
Although the “pivot to video” has been notoriously challenging for most publishers, they can’t exactly give up on video. In fact, BuzzFeed has been ramping up production with a new editing tool called Vidder. Vidder was created Senior Product Designer Elaine Dunlop and Senior Software Engineer Joseph Bergen. Dunlop recalled talking to Bergen more than […]
View More BuzzFeed built its own editing tool for short, meme-y videosNetflix picks up ‘Follow This’, a weekly series about BuzzFeed reporters
Netflix and BuzzFeed News are teaming up for a 20-episode documentary series called Follow This. According to Variety, the show will be less focused on breaking news and more on taking us behind the scenes to show how BuzzFeed News reporters put together specific stories. For example, in the clip below, BuzzFeed’s Scaachi Koul talks […]
View More Netflix picks up ‘Follow This’, a weekly series about BuzzFeed reportersTumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Kremlin trolls
Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections. In a blog post today the social platform writes that it is “taking steps to protect against future interference in our political conversation by state-sponsored propaganda campaigns”. The company has also started emailing users who interacted with 84 accounts […]
View More Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Kremlin trollsBuzzFeed’s Matthew Henick takes content role at Facebook
Matthew Henick, formerly the head of BuzzFeed Studios, is joining Facebook’s media partnerships team, where he will serve as head of content planning and strategy. In a post on Facebook, Henick argued that the social network is “a storytelling platform at its core,” and it sounds like he wants to help Facebook take advantage of those storytelling opportunities: Good stories… Read More
Tumblr also lousy with Russia-backed US election trolls: Report
The meme-laden Tumblr platform is the latest social media and blogging outlet to be unmasked as a distribution channel for Russian agents to rip at America’s societal fault lines and seek to influence citizens’ voting habits, according to a report by BuzzFeed News. Read More
With new BuzzFeed and ESPN layoffs, it’s another dark day in media
The grim reaper has come to take what’s his from the media industry.
On Wednesday, BuzzFeed and ESPN both announced layoffs, with each company’s CEO issues a statement.
In the U.S., BuzzFeed’s layoffs will mostly affect employees in their business an…