Let the AIs write the quizzes. Weâll do the newslettersâŚ
Buzzfeed's quizzes just read like they're generated by AIs at the moment. But in the future â they will be. At least we can still write newsletters.
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Social & Digital coffee break: 3 stories in 3 sentences
Because your time is precious, and I respect it, dammit.
Buzzfeed
The predictable villain at the heart of digital media's woes
For all the discussion about venture capital, and ad rates, and other scapegoats for tough time digital media's going through - a familiar company carries some of the blame.
business strategy
How BuzzFeed UK handles its redundancies will tell us a lot about the future of the business
BuzzFeed UK to make 45 staff redundant [http://uk.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-uk-to-make-45-staff-redundant-2017-12?r=US&IR=T] > The websiteâs London workforce was briefed on the plans on Thursday evening. In a tweet later confirmed by the company, media and politics reporter Mark Di Stefano said 45 of the
audience development
Get your journalism read on Facebook with this one clever trick
Iâve written before about the need for journalists to get on top of the new methods of reaching readers [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/02/journalism-alt-right-culture-war-trsut-digital.html] â most especially use of social media. If you want another stark example of what failing to do so looks like, then
Buzzfeed
Buzzfeed doubles UK video production office
Jessica Davies [http://digiday.com/publishers/inside-buzzfeeds-uk-hiring-spree-staff-international-branded-video-hub/] : > BuzzFeedâs shift to video is taking hold in its U.K. operations. The digital media company is doubling the size of its London office so it can house two new studios with a particular focus on sponsor video. The goal: to
Buzzfeed
Buzzfeed splits - but both halves get custody of video
Buzzfeed is restructuring by splitting into entertainment and news divisions. CEO Jonah Peretti makes an interesting point: > Having a single âvideo departmentâ in 2016 makes about as much sense as having a âmobile department.â Instead of organizing around a format or technology, we will organize our work to take
Buzzfeed
Buzzfeed is trying to speed up social media debunking
Buzzfeed has a social media verification team [https://firstdraftnews.com/buzzfeed-wants-use-social-media-might-take-hoaxers/] : > BuzzFeed Canada editor and First Draft Coalition member Craig Silverman will be leading the charge from Toronto, âbringing his deep expertise at debunking hoaxes to our reporting arsenal,â said Scott Lamb, BuzzFeedâs head of international growth, âand
abuse
Post-Brexit political discourse in the UK
Luke Lewis, of Buzzfeed, has a public Facebook profile. And heâd been using it to comment on Brexit. And things have taken a nasty turn [https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/im-being-trolled-on-facebook-by-brextremists] : > Over the weekend, comments started flooding in from people whoâd voted Leave disagreeing with me. Not
business models
Buzzfeed and Vox Media: $1 billion businesses
Old media is buying its way into new media, again, with NBCUniversal throwing cash at Buzzfeed and Vox Media [http://recode.net/2015/08/12/nbcuniversal-buys-big-chunks-of-vox-media-and-buzzfeed/] : > BuzzFeed, meanwhile, is expected to be worth $1.5 billion after its NBCU investment, which multiple sources say is also $200 million â not
business models
The costs of running Buzzfeed
Gawker claims to have got ahold of Buzzfeedâs books [http://tktk.gawker.com/internal-documents-show-buzzfeed-s-skyrocketing-investm-1709816353] : > Editorial budget * In fiscal year 2011, BuzzFeedâs editorial budget was $858,780 [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2271007-buzzfeed-financial-documents.html#document/p20] * In 2012, it was $4,724,608 [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/
Buzzfeed
Publishers missed mobile - and notifications are the next opportunity
Possibly the most depressing paragraph [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/guardian-s-executive-editor-of-digital-mobile-has-snuck-up-on-us-/s2/a565489/] Iâve read in a long time: > Speaking on the panel at the launch of the report in London, the Guardianâs executive editor of digital Aron Pilhofer said âmobile has snuck upâ on publishers