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“It saw you whole — all 360 degrees and seven microphones of you.”
“It won a Pulitzer, then the budget meeting happened.”
BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011, and it grew far beyond its listicle roots into a genuinely serious operation. It broke high-profile scoops including the Steele dossier — for which it was strongly criticized — and the FinCEN Files, and it collected honors along the way: the George Polk Award, The Sidney Award, the National Magazine Award, the National Press Foundatio
On April 20, 2023, CEO Jonah Peretti announced BuzzFeed News would be gradually shut down amid company-wide layoffs, with BuzzFeed, Inc. refocusing its news efforts on HuffPost, which it had acquired in 2020. The site stopped adding new content on May 5, 2023. It left behind a shelf of awards, a run of major scoops, and proof that an unlikely underdog could do work that mattered.
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“It saw you whole — all 360 degrees and seven microphones of you.”
“He ran through every level; the servers just stopped running with him.”
“It told a generation they were the coolest kid in school. Rest easy, flame emoji.”