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I really hope not. Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I couldn't imagine in the 80s The National Enquirer starting a cable TV channel. May

I really hope not. Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I couldn't imagine in the 80s The National Enquirer starting a cable TV channel. Maybe the US version of Buzzfeed is different.

flanbiscuit 9y ago
One day I was listening to an episode of Radiolab[1] (an NPR podcast) and I was surprised to hear they were collaborating with Buzzfeed. For the most part I still think of them as a listicles site but I guess they are trying to break into more serious journalism. 1. http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/
- wmeredith 9y ago
  They've been doing serious journalism for a few years now. They use their clickbait nonsense to fund it. Here's a short article I wrote about it earlier this year: https://medium.com/@wwmeredith/10-reasons-not-to-write-off-buzzfeeds-clickbait-8e5ea527c16 https://medium.com/@wwmeredith/10-reasons-not-to-write-off-b... I don't write regularly, but I've had this conversation with so many of my friends and colleagues that I decided to put it down somewhere. The basic gist is that the old newspapers funded deep investigative journalism with want ads, funny papers, sports pages, and the weather. They can't do that anymore, but Buzzfeed is finding a way. It's fascinating.
  - Larrikin 9y ago
    They should rebrand their serious journalism. I know about it, and know they sometimes produce important work, but I never read their articles unless another organization reports on it as being valuable. There's too much risk of getting a waste of time currently.
    - pulisse 9y ago
      Under what circumstances do you update your priors?
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- astura 9y ago
  They have been doing serious journalism for quite a while and have proven themselves very capable of it. Here's stuff that's been submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeed.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeed.com
kafkaesq 9y ago
Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I don't doubt this necessarily, but could you provide a quick recap? As in, did they create a slimy tabloid site from scratch? Or did they, like, buy some site that was already slimy, and just continue trudging along in the path of sliminess? Coz like "we needz the ad revenue from the slimy stuff to bankroll our dalliance with serious journalism", and all that.
- dghughes 9y ago
  I avoid the website unless I click a link by mistake. My brief encounters are enough to avoid them. I think there is a difference between the US and Canadian organizations. The most recent incident was they stated white men need not apply for a job there, they often had anti make or anti white articles. Isn't that racism or at least bigotry? https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/46mrmb/buzzfeed_canada_specifically_requests_white_men/ https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/46mrmb/buzzfeed_can...
danso 9y ago
BuzzFeed News has a large investigative team with several Pulitzer Prize winners. Last year they were a finalist for international reporting: https://www.poynter.org/news/buzzfeed-news-gets-its-first-pulitzer-citation https://www.poynter.org/news/buzzfeed-news-gets-its-first-pu...

flanbiscuit 9y ago

One day I was listening to an episode of Radiolab[1] (an NPR podcast) and I was surprised to hear they were collaborating with Buzzfeed. For the most part I still think of them as a listicles site but I guess they are trying to break into more serious journalism. 1. http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/

wmeredith 9y ago
They've been doing serious journalism for a few years now. They use their clickbait nonsense to fund it. Here's a short article I wrote about it earlier this year: https://medium.com/@wwmeredith/10-reasons-not-to-write-off-buzzfeeds-clickbait-8e5ea527c16 https://medium.com/@wwmeredith/10-reasons-not-to-write-off-b... I don't write regularly, but I've had this conversation with so many of my friends and colleagues that I decided to put it down somewhere. The basic gist is that the old newspapers funded deep investigative journalism with want ads, funny papers, sports pages, and the weather. They can't do that anymore, but Buzzfeed is finding a way. It's fascinating.
- Larrikin 9y ago
  They should rebrand their serious journalism. I know about it, and know they sometimes produce important work, but I never read their articles unless another organization reports on it as being valuable. There's too much risk of getting a waste of time currently.
  - pulisse 9y ago
    Under what circumstances do you update your priors?
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astura 9y ago
They have been doing serious journalism for quite a while and have proven themselves very capable of it. Here's stuff that's been submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeed.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeed.com

kafkaesq 9y ago

Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I don't doubt this necessarily, but could you provide a quick recap? As in, did they create a slimy tabloid site from scratch? Or did they, like, buy some site that was already slimy, and just continue trudging along in the path of sliminess? Coz like "we needz the ad revenue from the slimy stuff to bankroll our dalliance with serious journalism", and all that.

dghughes 9y ago
I avoid the website unless I click a link by mistake. My brief encounters are enough to avoid them. I think there is a difference between the US and Canadian organizations. The most recent incident was they stated white men need not apply for a job there, they often had anti make or anti white articles. Isn't that racism or at least bigotry? https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/46mrmb/buzzfeed_canada_specifically_requests_white_men/ https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/46mrmb/buzzfeed_can...

danso 9y ago

BuzzFeed News has a large investigative team with several Pulitzer Prize winners. Last year they were a finalist for international reporting: https://www.poynter.org/news/buzzfeed-news-gets-its-first-pulitzer-citation https://www.poynter.org/news/buzzfeed-news-gets-its-first-pu...