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Interesting, but not particularly surprising. Despite many people's hate for Buzzfeed they are quickly building up a powerful journalism team. I suspect they wi
by owenwil 12y ago
Interesting, but not particularly surprising. Despite many people's hate for Buzzfeed they are quickly building up a powerful journalism team. I suspect they will be the biggest media/journalism/content powerhouse online within a few years (they technically already are).
- mkal_tsr 12y agoJournalism. Are you sure you understand what that word means and/or implies?
- freshhawk 12y agoIs that a loose use of the word journalism or is there work I don't know about? They definitely have a wildly successful content team but I don't follow buzzfeed closely.
- TruffleLabs 12y agoWatch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight video segment on native advertisement https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc (10 min long). There is a bit on BuzzFeed where he points out that many of the posts that are "top" are really from paid advertisers. Saying BuzzFeed is developing a journalism team is probably not the best wording. I would suggest BuzzFeed is building up a great PR, advertising, and marketing engine. They will make money. But is it journalism?
- blumkvist 12y agoThey are developing long form features and op-eds, no?
- potatolicious 12y agoWithout a very thick, tall, barb-wire-topped wall between editorial and sales, BuzzFeed will never be a respectable source for journalism. So longer as they are running ads as content, no amount of long-form writing and New Yorker-esque vocabulary will move them from the "clickbait" side to the "journalism" side.
- blumkvist 12y agoOh, so you believe in free and objective journalism? I have bad news for you...