BuzzFeed Fires Writer Over Multiple Instances of Plagiarism
Benny Johnson has been fired from BuzzFeed after an internal investigation uncovered multiple instances of plagiarism in his work. Editor-in-chief Ben Smith wrote a post on the site Friday evening...
View ArticleBuzzFeed is Totally Cool with Plagiarism
According to Gawker, BuzzFeed’s viral politics editor Benny Johnson was caught plagiarizing material three different times. To make matters worse, Johnson copied material from Yahoo! Answers of all...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Mitt Romney’s Camp Doesn’t Want BuzzFeed in Press Pool
Mitt Romney is apparently not a fan of BuzzFeed. The site’s Editor-in-Chief, Ben Smith, tweeted yesterday that Romney’s camp was “attempting to exclude BuzzFeed from the media...
View ArticleDisney Tried to Acquire BuzzFeed
Keep an eye out on Facebook for BuzzFeed's next listacle: 21 Reasons Disney Didn't Acquire Us. Fortune reports that the Walt Disney Co. was in negotiations earlier this year to acquire the media outlet...
View ArticleNICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View Article>NICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Takes Down Huffington Post, Gawker, BuzzFeed
Readers looking for the latest updates on Hurricane Sandy Tuesday morning were disappointed to find some of the top news sites, including The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Gawker and its affiliated...
View ArticleGawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to...
After users accuse him of trying to emulate BuzzFeed, Denton jumps into the fray to accuse rival Jonah Peretti of 'stunt' tactics Nick Denton is already a seasoned user of Gawker's new comment system....
View ArticleFired BuzzFeed Writer Did Not Find Termination Letter 'Cute'
After Copyranter blogger Mark Duffy was fired from his job critiquing advertising for BuzzFeed, the company sent him some papers making the termination official, affixed to which were sticky notes...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Reviewing Benny Johnson's Work Following Plagiarism Charges
NEW YORK -- BuzzFeed is reviewing the work of viral politics editor Benny Johnson after acknowledging that "instances of plagiarism" were found in his writing. Two Twitter users, @blippoblappo and...
View ArticleMadonna Invades BuzzFeed Offices to Promote Art For Freedom Project
Madonna dropped in at BuzzFeed's New York offices Monday evening and commandeered one of their computers to comment on submissions to ArtForFreedom, a “platform to define what freedom means to them and...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy silences US websites: Huffington Post, Gawker and Buzzfeed...
Hurricane Sandy’s remorseless march through America’s east coast found further victims last night and this morning in the cluster of media companies centred in New York. A host of websites crashed...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy silences US websites: Huffington Post, Gawker and Buzzfeed...
Hurricane Sandy’s remorseless march through America’s east coast found further victims last night and this morning in the cluster of media companies centred in New York. A host of websites crashed...
View ArticleNick Denton: ‘Our Biggest Competitor in Media is BuzzFeed’
Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, took to a Gawker Kinja site today to answer questions from readers. It was basically Gawker’s version of Reddit’s popular...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Teams Up With Ex-Gawker Traffic Guru at Whisper
BuzzFeed has reached a content-sharing agreement with Whisper, an anonymous social network where former Gawker traffic guru Neetzan Zimmerman is now editor-in-chief. Zimmerman and another Whisper...
View ArticleNick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti Right Now In Gawker's...
Ready for a good old fashion blog fight? Nick Denton is crushing BuzzFeed, and its cofounder Jonah Peretti, over at Gawker using its new commenting system. He says, "Jonah Peretti is one of the...
View ArticleGawker's Nick Denton Picks Fight With BuzzFeed, Calls Website ‘Pointless’
Gawker has BuzzFeed in its snarky crosshairs. The website's founder Nick Denton held an online meeting on Tuesday and singled out the listicle-loving social content sharing website as its chief rival....
View ArticleGawker, Buzzfeed down due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy (update)
Hurricane Sandy is swiftly making landfall on the East Coast, and with it comes rising waters and intense winds. The storm is having an effect on some popular web properties, as both Gawker and...
View ArticleMystery has a rightful place in the arts
The creators of@Horse_ebooks came forward on Tuesday to both reveal their identity and announce an end to the bizarre Twitter feed. New Yorker writer Susan Orlean unveiled the two masterminds at an...
View ArticleWhat is Horse_Ebooks? Twitter devastated at news popular spambot was human...
The world shook, melted, then reassembled as a slightly less magical place for thousands of Twitter users this afternoon as it was...
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