Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 18, 2013
1:22 pm
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Julie Moos
Jan. 15, 2013
5:08 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 14, 2013
3:12 pm
BuzzFeed is not just upending conventional wisdom on how Internet publishers can make money with its innovative digital ads; the lists, quizzes and posts it creates with advertisers show brands they can "
actually create something people will engage with," BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti told the Guardian's Heidi N. Moore.
That's good news for marketers, but its sponsored posts are also a win for readers who might otherwise flee from advertorial content. Though clearly marked, they look and feel like BuzzFeed's editorial content, and they're not sharing screen space with ads trumpeting the fat-burning properties of açai berries.
That's due in part to Peretti's philosophy: His "open disdain for an old stalwart of media advertising -- the banner ad, blinking loudly above editorial content -- is almost palpable," Moore writes.
But BuzzFeed often appears to have a palpable distaste for copyright law as well.
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Jan. 3, 2013
1:25 pm
In a campaign trail memoir, Michael Hastings tries to unpack the “mystery” of Obama press secretary Jay Carney:
Carney, you see, had been a journalist once, too. He’d been one of the reportedly 19 members of the mainstream outlets who had left their profession to join the hip and cool Camelot of the Obama years. Dealing with ex-journalists—hacks turned flacks—was like dealing with ex-smokers. They were barely able to disguise their contempt for what they once were, convinced now of their superiority because they had tapped into a part of life that was so much more fulfilling and wonderful than hacking up a lung. Yet they still loved nicotine and thought about smoking all the time, and so in their contempt became the most difficult pains in the ass to fire up a Parliament around, or, in this case, to get a leak from, or set up an interview with, as they held such a low opinion of their former profession that they set out to prevent others from practicing it as well. …
Watching him in Iowa be Jay Carney of the White House rather than Jay Carney of Time magazine, complete now with a Secret Service pin to show his true status as a campaign trail regular, I understood immediately why he officially crossed over: he’d developed a serious, $10,000-a-day habit of following presidents around the country and the world.
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Michael Hastings, "The Mystery Of Jay Carney Revealed"
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 11, 2012
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 29, 2012
11:53 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Nov. 12, 2012
4:56 pm
The Onion, at 4:14 p.m. Monday:
BuzzFeed, just 25 minutes later:
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 5, 2012
3:36 pm
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Julie Moos
Oct. 29, 2012
7:27 pm
The Huffington Post website is down Tuesday morning, along with all the Gawker sites. BuzzFeed was up and down Monday evening, as teams shifted publishing to social platforms including Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. While most major news websites in New Jersey and New York continued to publish as planned, others did not fare as well once water began pouring in and pockets of the city lost power due to Sandy.
Huffington Post Communications Director Rhoades Alderson explains what happened:
Our primary datacenter (Datagram) is in New York City and the backup is in Newark. Those host the fronted web servers, while the comments, statistics, analytics, and data are all hosted elsewhere in places unaffected by the storm. ...
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