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>For years, BuzzFeed seemed to be leading the journalism industry toward a brave new future. Serious question: did anyone honestly believe this to be true?
by remarkEon 8y ago
>For years, BuzzFeed seemed to be leading the journalism industry toward a brave new future.
Serious question: did anyone honestly believe this to be true?
- cagenut 8y agoit was true, from a revenue perspective. it wasn't a good thing, but it was still a true thing.
- RandallBrown 8y agoBuzzfeed's actual journalism (not the goofy lists and quizzes) is pretty good. Buzzfeed news also posts all their data for their articles on Github. https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews
- djohnston 8y agothey didn't start with actual journalism though. they started with complete trash, and then used that clickbait revenue to fund actual investigative journalism
- kyriee 8y agoWell, that was always the plan. A little bit like the classified and sports sections were paying for that Bagdad bureau.