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They do some serious journalism: https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news

cf498 8y ago
Buzzfeed-news is a separate entity if i am not mistaken?
- mcintyre1994 8y ago
  Presumably that’s the entity that hires these journalists and is relevant to this discussion though?
ringaroll 8y ago
> They do some serious journalism MUAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHA Are you serious? Every so called journalist at Buzzfeed deserves to get fired. Just look at them on Twitter. They cant even take criticism. No one wants to watch their shitty content, hence they're getting laid off.
- King-Aaron 8y ago
  Do you know what the pulitzer prize even is? There's some serious bias on display in this thread, HN can do better.
- moate 8y ago
  They’ve won Pulitzers. They’ve broken major news stories. The true jurnos there just have a branding nightmare because of the quizzes and lists. If “not handling criticism on Twitter with tact” is a qualification for a job, I think everyone on twitter would be unemployed.
  - mc32 8y ago
    They were finalists; I don’t think they won. They keep hanging their hat on that nomination though.
    - r3bl 8y ago
      They do have at least one Pulitzer prize winner (Mark Schoofs, their head of the investigative reporting division). He didn't win that Pulitzer in BuzzFeed, but prior to that. It's his Pulitzer that gets associated with BuzzFeed (since he's now heading a team worthy of receiving Pulitzer nominations).
- than 8y ago
  You’re not much of a reader are you? What part of “a stunning probe across two continents that proved that operatives with apparent ties to Vladimir Putin have engaged in a targeted killing campaign against his perceived enemies on British and American soil” can we help clarify?
sandov 8y ago
Makes me wonder if they've had difficulties selling their work as credible to the general public, considering what the BuzzFeed name entails.
- vermilingua 8y ago
  I absolutely discounted and avoided BuzzFeedNews work for the longest time, until I accidentally read one of their investigative pieces [1] and was blown away. I almost even think it vindicates the relentless stream of garbage from their main site, if it allows them to fund such stellar journalism. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-trump-around-the-world
  - testvox 8y ago
    Yeah I think their news and investigative journalism are top notch https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake
  - malvosenior 8y ago
    The thing is that Buzzfeed cannot be trusted to write about topics like this. They have an explicit and overt anti-Trump bias and this article is suspect because of that. Really, any mainstream news organization using the term "fake news" and suggesting it impacted the 2016 election cannot be trusted. It was Buzzfeed News that released the unsubstantiated Steele Dossier and more recently unsubstantiated and refuted claims against Michael Choen. They are not journalists, they are activists.
    - fzeroracer 8y ago
      Calling the Steele Dossier unsubstantiated is just objectively wrong considering we've seen many claims within it bear fruit over time. There's a reason why many agencies take it very seriously. What exactly is your bias here?
      - 8y ago
arcbyte 8y ago
Well there goes any respect I had for Pulitzer.

cf498 8y ago

Buzzfeed-news is a separate entity if i am not mistaken?

mcintyre1994 8y ago
Presumably that’s the entity that hires these journalists and is relevant to this discussion though?

ringaroll 8y ago

> They do some serious journalism MUAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHA Are you serious? Every so called journalist at Buzzfeed deserves to get fired. Just look at them on Twitter. They cant even take criticism. No one wants to watch their shitty content, hence they're getting laid off.

King-Aaron 8y ago
Do you know what the pulitzer prize even is? There's some serious bias on display in this thread, HN can do better.
moate 8y ago
They’ve won Pulitzers. They’ve broken major news stories. The true jurnos there just have a branding nightmare because of the quizzes and lists. If “not handling criticism on Twitter with tact” is a qualification for a job, I think everyone on twitter would be unemployed.
- mc32 8y ago
  They were finalists; I don’t think they won. They keep hanging their hat on that nomination though.
  - r3bl 8y ago
    They do have at least one Pulitzer prize winner (Mark Schoofs, their head of the investigative reporting division). He didn't win that Pulitzer in BuzzFeed, but prior to that. It's his Pulitzer that gets associated with BuzzFeed (since he's now heading a team worthy of receiving Pulitzer nominations).
than 8y ago
You’re not much of a reader are you? What part of “a stunning probe across two continents that proved that operatives with apparent ties to Vladimir Putin have engaged in a targeted killing campaign against his perceived enemies on British and American soil” can we help clarify?

sandov 8y ago

Makes me wonder if they've had difficulties selling their work as credible to the general public, considering what the BuzzFeed name entails.

vermilingua 8y ago
I absolutely discounted and avoided BuzzFeedNews work for the longest time, until I accidentally read one of their investigative pieces [1] and was blown away. I almost even think it vindicates the relentless stream of garbage from their main site, if it allows them to fund such stellar journalism. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-trump-around-the-world
- testvox 8y ago
  Yeah I think their news and investigative journalism are top notch https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake
- malvosenior 8y ago
  The thing is that Buzzfeed cannot be trusted to write about topics like this. They have an explicit and overt anti-Trump bias and this article is suspect because of that. Really, any mainstream news organization using the term "fake news" and suggesting it impacted the 2016 election cannot be trusted. It was Buzzfeed News that released the unsubstantiated Steele Dossier and more recently unsubstantiated and refuted claims against Michael Choen. They are not journalists, they are activists.
  - fzeroracer 8y ago
    Calling the Steele Dossier unsubstantiated is just objectively wrong considering we've seen many claims within it bear fruit over time. There's a reason why many agencies take it very seriously. What exactly is your bias here?
    - 8y ago

arcbyte 8y ago

Well there goes any respect I had for Pulitzer.