It’s easy to focus on the negatives in media — the mistakes, the downsizing at traditional journalistic outlets, etc. — but there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the… Read more »
Turning a media site into a massive, multibillion-dollar property reaching hundreds of millions of readers isn’t the only route to success any more — starting and running a niche or targeted… Read more »
Gawker founder Nick Denton unveiled a management shakeup he referred to as “the great unclenching,” in which he will share power over the blog network with a management committee of seven,… Read more »
Layoffs at newspapers like the New York Times are no longer a surprise. But we should be careful not to assume that just because some papers are downsizing, journalism as a… Read more »
Vox Media has closed a financing round that values the company at almost $400 million, and BuzzFeed is valued at twice that level — but will the funds that made these… Read more »
According to a recent presentation, BuzzFeed reaches more millennial video viewers than most of the major U.S. television networks, and it gets five times as much traffic from social as it… Read more »
The way the story around Uber’s behavior has emerged is another example of how much the media landscape has changed over the past couple of years, with CEOs and VCs tweeting… Read more »
BuzzFeed has formed a partnership with Facebook that gives it access to the social network’s “sentiment analysis” data on millions of users — but Facebook’s algorithm is going to influence the… Read more »
BuzzFeed strenuously denies that it engages in what some call “clickbait,” which the site defines as not following through on the promise of a headline — but that’s not the only… Read more »
BuzzFeed has already built a data-science team and named one of its chief scientists as publisher, and now it has acquired Torando Labs and made the founder — the co-founder and… Read more »