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...Shares in BuzzFeed rose more than 50 per cent on Thursday afternoon following news of the talks....
...The venture launches in a grim period for the news business, following lay-offs at start-ups such as BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Vice, which were once touted as the future of news media, as well as legacy...
...The former US president is suing Orbis Business Intelligence, co-founded by the former British intelligence officer, in the High Court over the dossier, which leaked to media website BuzzFeed in 2017....
...BuzzFeed on Wednesday said it would cut 16 per cent of its staff, while announcing plans to sell the publisher Complex for $109mn — a third of the price it had paid for it just three years ago....
...Semafor was founded by Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed editor, and Justin Smith, the former chief executive of Bloomberg Media....
...Then he co-founded BuzzFeed, where he made listicles such as “32 pictures that will make you say Awwwww” under the pseudonym LilyBoo, while subsidising the award-winning reporting of BuzzFeed News....
...The Russia dossier made headlines around the world when it was published by media website BuzzFeed in early 2017. It included lurid allegations about Trump’s conduct in a Moscow hotel....
...BuzzFeed will shut down its news division and cut its workforce by 15 per cent as the digital media group seeks to slash costs and focus on profitable parts of its operations....
...Analysts say BuzzFeed got the market economics for news wrong....
...Peretti blamed himself in the memo for overinvesting in BuzzFeed News “because I love their work and mission so much”....
...Online brands that once seemed the future of reporting, like BuzzFeed News, have disappeared. Social media has turned its back on the sector....
...(Bond Vigilantes) — “We Were Always Playing An Entirely Different Game”: The ultimate oral history of BuzzFeed News (BuzzFeed) — The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-aging drug (Big Think) —...
...Private equity meanwhile acquired Reorg, a distressed debt news and intelligence service, at a $1.3bn valuation. In contrast, the enterprise value of BuzzFeed is down to just above $200mn....
...In April this year, the publisher hired Jon Steinberg — an American digital entrepreneur and BuzzFeed graduate — as chief executive....
...The share price more than doubled on the AI and Meta news, so BuzzFeed no longer qualifies as a penny stock. Congrats....
...Lingotto, the asset manager backed by Italy’s Agnelli family, has hired Pam Chan to open its New York office and as chief investment officer of its new Mosaic Fund, the WSJ reports....
...Lycamobile’s status as a major donor to the Tories, telling French officials that “it is of note that they are the biggest corporate donor to the Conservative party”, according to correspondence reported by BuzzFeed...
...It ends with “Blurred Lines”, the 2013 hit by Robin Thicke featuring TI and Pharrell, which by that time BuzzFeed was describing as “rapey” (itself a coy, in-denial term)....
...lofty ideas of pure math down to earth (MIT Tech Review) — From February but: The End of “Succession” Is Near (New Yorker)...
...Steinberg, who was chief operating officer of BuzzFeed between 2012 and 2014, is also the founder of social media news broadcaster Cheddar, which he sold to cable television provider Altice USA for $200mn...
...The Telegraph is not some wannabe new media business, à la Vice or BuzzFeed News, both of which have failed financially....
...(New York Times) — The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed (The Verge) — Is old music killing new music? (The Atlantic) — How to summon the devil, and what to do when he shows up (Blood Knife)...
...News or video streaming subscriptions generally cost about $20 a month....
...BuzzFeed last month closed its award-winning news operations and Vox is having to cut staff across its business. Many digital start-ups were reliant on large tech platforms for traffic and referrals....
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