BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City,[2] BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post, started as a co-founder and investor in BuzzFeed and is now the executive chairman.
Originally known for online quizzes, "listicles", and pop culture articles, the company has grown into a global media and technology company, providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, DIY, animals, and business.[3][4] BuzzFeed generates revenue through native advertising, a strategy that helps increase the likelihood of viewers reading through the content of advertisements.[5]
In late 2011, BuzzFeed hired Ben Smith of Politico as editor-in-chief, to expand the site into long-form journalism and reportage.[6] After years of investment in investigative journalism, by 2021 BuzzFeed News had won the National Magazine Award,[7] the George Polk Award,[8] and the Pulitzer Prize,[9] and was nominated for the Michael Kelly Award.[7]BuzzFeed News later moved to its own domain rather than existing as a section of the main BuzzFeed website.[10] On April 20, 2023, Peretti announced that BuzzFeed would be shuttering BuzzFeed News[when?] and focusing its news efforts into The Huffington Post, laying off about 180 workers.[11]
A 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that in the United States, BuzzFeed was viewed as an unreliable source by the majority of respondents, regardless of age or political affiliation.[12] The company's audience has been described as left-leaning.[13]
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skill, I think it becomes very simple to acknowledge." Rachael Maddux of BuzzFeed, however, disputed that Dunham could be classified as a "nepo baby". In...
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Streamers Said Dealing With Exploitative Imagery Is 'Ridiculous' And 'Hard'". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved November 18, 2023. Siragusa said having also worked in...
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on life, Buzzfeed and each others' butts". Highlander. Retrieved January 13, 2019. Klein, Jessica (June 21, 2018). "The Try Guys Leave BuzzFeed To Launch...
2019. Matthews, Dylan (April 2, 2015). "BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains BuzzFeed perfectly". Vox. Retrieved August 10, 2023...
years after Renfro's death, and again the following year, the website BuzzFeed devoted a long article to recounting his rise and descent. The article...
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has an older brother, internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, co-founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. Chelsea Peretti attended The College Preparatory...
glorifying suicide and depression among young people. In February 2018, BuzzFeed published a report claiming that Tumblr was utilized as a distribution...
talent. It was also the first to turn BuzzFeed producers into on-camera personalities, a motif that now anchors BuzzFeed's original programming". Their show...
2019). "Shia LaBeouf's New Movie Puts His Whole Career In Perspective". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on July 11, 2021. Retrieved December 3...
left the show and was replaced by Nathan Parsons. Reports, confirmed by BuzzFeed, indicated that he quit because he refused to participate in same-sex kissing...
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