BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BuzzFeed Inc. BuzzFeed (BZFD)’s content and advertising revenue fell sharply in the last three months of 2023 but…
Read more BuzzFeed Revenue Fell Sharply in 2023 as CEO Jonah Peretti Figures Out Turnaround PlanBen Shirken (l.) and Reggie Watts at this year’s 7×7. Photo by Owley Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome. The intersection of art and technology gets a lot of press…
Read more Rhizome’s 7×7 Models a Deeper Collaboration Between Art and ScienceDuring the last years of my run at The New York Times, it seemed possible that digital news start-ups, like Vice and BuzzFeed, could eclipse old, legacy news organizations…
Read more Why BuzzFeed and Vice Couldn’t Make News WorkMaybe I should have waited a week to interview Ben Smith. It was Friday, April 14, when I drove out to Smith’s place in Brooklyn, where he lives in…
Read more “I Was Pretty Utopian”: With BuzzFeed News in the Grave, Ben Smith Reflects on Digital Media’s ConvulsionsWhile I receded into a corner, alternately spaced out and laughing hysterically, and while Steinberg begged, Peretti grew even more abstracted than usual. He conducted a kind of…
Read more “F–k Him, He Loses”: The Inside Story of How Disney’s Attempt to Buy BuzzFeed Fell ApartBuzzFeed is shutting down its BuzzFeed News operation, with CEO Jonah Peretti writing in a company memo that it “can no longer continue to fund” the site. The…
Read more BuzzFeed News is shutting down, as parent company cuts 15% of jobsNew York CNN — Over the holidays, while most media executives were perhaps looking to get a reprieve from work, Jonah Peretti was online, fully immersed in experimenting…
Read more BuzzFeed’s CEO says AI could usher in a ‘new model for digital media,’ but warns against a ‘dystopian’ path | CNN BusinessA couple weeks ago, in his idiosyncratic fan-correspondence newsletter, “The Red Hand Files,” musician and author Nick Cave critiqued a ”song in the style of Nick Cave”—submitted by…
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