BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed ‘to buy Complex TV’
The Information reports that BuzzFeed is in talks to acquire digital lifestyle publisher Complex Networks from the Verizon-Hearst…
13 May 2021
BuzzFeed to go public
Digital publisher BuzzFeed this week made redundant 47 staff of HuffPost (which it acquired in February) and also…
11 March 2021
BuzzFeed marries HuffPost
The US news and entertainment company BuzzFeed is to acquire HuffPost (formerly known as Huffington Post) from telco…
20 November 2020
How The Independent did it
In addition to hastening the print-to-digital transition and much else, the Covid Accelerator may kill or cure many…
30 October 2020
Is this a revolution for cashed-up BuzzFeed?
The future of BuzzFeed is something that has divided media people for a decade. Its 11 international editions…
24 October 2016
Why newspapers must dare NOT to be daily
It is almost 200 years since the UK’s pioneering railway network created the opportunity for daily newspapers to…
24 September 2015
Heroes & Villains: Peretti and Murdoch
Hero Jonah Peretti: He was the least well-known of the four founders of Huffington Post 10 years ago. Jonah…
24 April 2015
What ‘new media’ should mean for publishers
Thirty years ago, the world’s largest B2B publisher (then called Reed International) de-merged a nascent exhibitions division from…
5 October 2014
How journalism and profits are defecting to the web
Some newspapers and magazines have profitable longterm strategies; and some might even continue to resemble the publications they…
13 February 2014
How BuzzFeed will be the world’s largest news service
2013 has been the year of BuzzFeed. It started by raising $19.3m from investors and continued with the…
9 December 2013