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I think you might be railing against the wrong beast... https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfee

• Rafuino 8y ago
  Agreed. Attacking Buzzfeed is easy as a "content farm" but the teams let go were primarily in the national security / politics teams, not the teams creating the stupid (but entertaining for many) top 10 listicles.
  • 52-6F-62 8y ago
    Yep. In other words, the expensive journalistic staff.
    • Rafuino 8y ago
      Seeing you across this thread as someone who doesn't just dismiss journalism! I'm looking forward to seeing what The Markup [1] comes out with on the data-driven tech-focused journalism front. Saw their managing editor talk last week and I'm tentatively hopeful... [1] https://themarkup.org/ https://themarkup.org/
• HashHishBang 8y ago
  I may very well be and thank you for pointing that out. I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between those organizations without something like that link. But was it "BuzzFeed News" that got the layoffs or just "BuzzFeed"? I think you'd be hard pressed to find many people who could separate BuzzFeed from BuzzFeed News. Hell I'm actively looking for those distinctions now and it's more confusing than I would have expected.
  • 52-6F-62 8y ago
    Looks like it was explicitly BuzzFeed News. It was in the article. And Pulitzer seemed to make the distinction, so I'll take their word for it. I'm not otherwise qualified. https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1088922478242615297 https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1088922478242615297
    • HashHishBang 8y ago
      Hmmm. I still don't see it in this article at least but good on ya for knowing and pointing out that difference.
      • 52-6F-62 8y ago
        That tweet I linked is in the article... but cheers...