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That's the second time this week I see Buzzfeed coming out with something that resembles decent journalism. Coincidence, or have they turned their ship around?

• Veratyr 9y ago
  This is BuzzFeed News, which is run semi-independently from BuzzFeed itself and has actually had some decent quality journalism from the start. Apparently this happened in 2016: http://www.poynter.org/2016/buzzfeed-undergoes-company-wide-reorganization-separating-entertainment-from-news/427375/ http://www.poynter.org/2016/buzzfeed-undergoes-company-wide-... Their investigations team is especially interesting: https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-an-investigative-team-from-the-ground-up/396656/ https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-an-investiga...
• H4CK3RM4N 9y ago
  I think it's more that they have a few good contributors in with the nonsense. For example, their Australian political coverage has consistently been surprisingly good.
  • mrkrabo 9y ago
    Without reading a word of it, I imagine where it leans.
• hboon 9y ago
  They have been doing this the last few years.
  • bartread 9y ago
    Indeed. I discovered this after a friend mentioned to me that Buzzfeed News was decent and, well, basically I didn't believe her so I went to check it out. The first story I saw was breaking news of the Tianjin explosions and of course the story was so out there that, because it was Buzzfeed, I didn't believe it until I'd watched some of the footage and seen it reported elsewhere. Anyway, yes, they are surprisingly decent.