BuzzFeed News Closure Unites Journalists in Disgust: ‘The Hardworking Staffers Pay the Price, as Always’
thewrap.comtweeted Philip Lewis, senior editor at Huffington Post, a subsidiary of Buzzfeed. Lewis’ response is just one of the slew of reactions from journalists.
Horrible: BuzzFeed News is shutting downThe Pulitzer Prize-winning digital news site is well-known for its hard-hitting news coverage and investigative reporting.
Peretti made the announcement via a staff memo that the news vertical of BuzzFeed Inc. would be closing up shop.What really sucks is that the people whose bad decisions eventually killed BFN simply coast on, while the hardworking staffers pay the price, as always.
But I know life’s not fair.“What really sucks is that the people whose bad decisions eventually killed BFN simply coast on, while the hardworking staffers pay the price, as always,” wrote Rosie Gray, a former BuzzFeed journalist, who also shared Peretti’s memo. “But I know life’s not fair.”“We will concentrate our news efforts in HuffPost, a brand that is profitable with a highly engaged, loyal audience that is less dependent on social platforms,” Peretti said in the memo. “I could have managed these changes better,” Peretti went on. “Our job is to adapt, change, improve and perform despite the challenges in the world.
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