Q&A with Nick Denton, Jonah Peretti, and also Ben Smith, whose book Traffic details the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker, on digital media and its reckoning
A conversation with two media pioneers — plus Ben Smith, whose new book chronicles their rise and fall.
A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice
How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk — Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams.
Twitter pulls funding for BuzzFeed's AM to DM due to the business impact of COVID-19, forcing BuzzFeed to suspend the show, with staffers' last day on April 28
BuzzFeed's Twitter morning show, AM2DM … Tweets: @bfnewsunion : Our statement on BuzzFeed suspending production of @AM2DM https://twitter.com/... A.B. / @alannabennett : When i got laid off from BuzzF...
A deep dive into BuzzFeed's ecommerce expansion, from establishing a dedicated Commerce division and a Product Lab in 2016 to partnering with Walmart
Damian Radcliffe takes a deep dive into BuzzFeed's eCommerce expansion, from establishing a dedicated Commerce division to its recent roll … Tweets: @damianradcliffe Tweets: Damian Radcliffe / @damian...
Slack closes at $38.62, up 48.5% from its $26 reference price, on its first day of trading, valuing the company at about $20B
for Now Reuters : Slack stock surges at debut, values company at more than $25 billion Thomas Franck / CNBC : Slack CEO explains why the company didn't go public with a traditional IPO Shawn Knight / ...
After BuzzFeed's cuts to its audio team and Panoply's exit from podcast content, creators re-evaluate podcast revenue potential and audience measurement
media's previous shiny object before the latest shiny object. http://www.poynter.org/... @ThisAmerLife @serial http://twitter.com/...
Profile of Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships; sources say she controls a $90M budget that will pay partners to make original news programs
It was another terrible day for Facebook and the company had dispatched Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, to do some damage control. Tweets: @jason_kint , @charliebeckett , @linamkhan , @...
BuzzFeed buys e-commerce startup Scroll; founder Ben Kaufman now leads BuzzFeed Product Lab, which is turning its NY office into a physical store to test ideas
Two years ago, Ben Kaufman, then-CEO of well-funded consumer product startup Quirky, delivered one of the most awkward, and candid …
How companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Tastemade are aggressively expanding into online video, experimenting with the format to attract viewers and advertisers
Erin Griffith / Fortune : Tweets: @qkatie . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Katie Quinn / @qkatie : Thrilled to represent the exciting things @tastemade is doing in this @FortuneMagazine article: http://...