BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith places his site on the spectrum between The New York Times and Reddit:
“I think that we are more like the New York Times than we are like Reddit … We’re a news organization, basically. Every day, we ask ourselves, ‘How are we going to outdo what we did yesterday?’ ”
Related: BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti explains what kinds of things people like to share (Poynter)
Media scholars at the University of Maryland documented the spread of local news dead spots — and unexpected vibrant areas — in that state.
A partnership between Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and Google and YouTube continues to support fact-checking initiatives worldwide
IndyStar sports columnist Gregg Doyel has been crushed online and accused of being creepy, sexist and worse. He’s since apologized multiple times
Experts say musicians have been accused of performing satanic rituals for decades
Bryan VanCampen of The Ithaca Times was an institution in the central New York college town of 32,000. He might have been the last of his kind.
