sad demise of a clever, innovative site that led the way in digital journalism
- Written by Sean Dodson, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Leeds Beckett University
Buzzfeed News, once a shining star of digital journalism, has announced it will shut its award-winning news division for good, laying off about 60 journalists in a move its founding editor, Ben Smith, described as “the end of the marriage between social media and news”.
Buzzfeed – for a few years regarded as a top exponent of...