From what I'm hearing, the people producing listacles are keeping their jobs, because they can just shovel out content at low cost and sell ads. Meanwhile, real

From what I'm hearing, the people producing listacles are keeping their jobs, because they can just shovel out content at low cost and sell ads. Meanwhile, real journalism takes time and doesn't always pay off, so its high cost. It's also very important to delineate between Buzzfeed the site (which is effectively a trash tabloid the likes of what you are likely to find near the grocery store checkout), and their news org, Buzzfeed News, which is probably at least decent (except for their recent reporting on the Mueller investigation with no evidence) and where the layoffs seem to be happening. In either case, these are venture capital firms without a working profit model, I think the main Buzzfeed site has resorted to selling cooking ware to capitalize off the popularity of their recipe sections.