BuzzFeed News will be discontinuing its journalism activities. However, users will still have access to the lists and quizzes that have become popular in the entertainment section of the platform.
With the end of BuzzFeed News comes a millennial-centric form of journalism, driven by social media. The decision has been praised by former collaborators, including Charlie Warzel, who believes it spells the end of the internet era of the 2010s.
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In addition to the closure, there was a 15% cut in the staff. According to the American press, the company's Chief Executive, Jonah Peretti, sent a memo to the team this Thursday (20).
About 60 jobs will be affected by the closure of BuzzFeed News, as reported by The New York Times.
In an attempt to preserve some positions, some journalists will move to positions at HuffPost and BuzzFeed.com. As of November 2020, BuzzFeed owns HuffPost and the two companies have a content and advertising partnership.
Ben Smith, who previously served as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and famously published the Steele Dossier – a widely discredited intelligence report that sought to linking former US President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin – who is now editor-in-chief of Semafor, blames the media for BuzzFeed News' shutdown social.
He believes the platform's downfall was a result of the toxicity of Facebook feeds, the platform's decision to labeling news as poison and the discontinuation of links to websites by Facebook, Twitter and other networks social.
