Tumblr, Others View Journalistic Content As Key Part Of Future
Tumblr really wants to be more than a collection of cute animal pictures. In fact, it views large publishers as an essential part of its future. Tumblr’s mindset is that quality content from these...
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Why You Shouldn’t Ignore FWD, BuzzFeed’s New Tech Vertical
BuzzFeed has launched a new tech vertical, FWD. Yes, it is another tech site to bookmark. Yes, the market is getting pretty crowded with them. But please don’t ignore this new kid on the block. Here’s...
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Panel of Techno-Optimists: The Shift to Social and Who’s Doing it Right
(L to R) David Carr of The New York Times, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, WaPoLabs Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large Rob Malda, and Flipboard Editorial Director Josh Quittner. In an event...
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Should I Animate That? 5 Questions for Animated GIFs in Journalism
If you’ve seen this coverage of an emotional Olympics race on Buzzfeed or this guide of gymnastic detail on The Atlantic Wire, you’ve recently seen some nifty animated GIFs in journalism. (Note: I...
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Sponsored Content: How Much is Too Much?
The past few months have been a rocky one for sponsored online content or “advertorials.” Between the Atlantic‘s Scientology dust-up and increasing paid content on websites like Buzzfeed and various...
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What You Can Learn From Profitable New Media Companies
It ain’t easy being in the media business these days, or so they say. There are in fact lots of people allegedly, or actually, raking in digital dollars, according to this article from Fortune....
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Hilarious “Mayor vs. Bear” Tweets Go Viral
A 250-pound bear climbs a tree in Connecticut, and the local mayor live tweets about it. It sounds like a pretty standard day on Twitter, but this particular encounter was different. It went crazy...
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Ready to Share: Packaging Your Digital Content
Chris Johanesen of Buzzfeed says that publishers should ban slideshows. Can we get a round of applause? They are remanants, like pageviews and the ‘like‘ button, of the beginnings of everything...
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Let’s All Try To Not Be ‘Buzzfeedy’
Mark Duffy, better known as Copyranter, tweeted today that we was fired from Buzzfeed for not being “buzzfeedy” enough. Fellow journos and media hounds commiserated with him, noting that not being...
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Why Listicles Are Here to Stay
Listicles, or articles in list form, have been around for decades. Traditional magazines like Cosmopolitan have had them on their cover for years (aka: “10 Sexiest Things To Do With Your Man...
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Fewer Cat Memes, More Hard-Hitting Stuff: BuzzFeed Gets Real With...
Once again, BuzzFeed is showing us it’s serious about being a respected news organization despite the fluff pieces it’s so infamous for. That’s why the viral/social Web machine announced to the...
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BuzzFeed Shows AP Stylebook Isn’t Exhaustive, Especially for Digital Age
No one can argue this — the Internet has changed everything when it comes to journalism, and while the AP Stylebook will continue to be considered “ol’ faithful” in our industry on most issues of...
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#myinternship: How Can We Make Internship Programs Better?
This week, Doree Shafrir over at Buzzfeed wrote about the ‘internship hamster wheel,’ especially pervasive in our industry. She continued the discussion on Twitter under #myinternship, where a lot of...
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Everything Upworthy Can Teach Journalists
This week, New York magazine has a profile of the website we all love to hate: Upworthy. Upworthy is the bane of many a journalist’s existence. It peddles in clicks, and has people sharing, painlessly...
View ArticleFinally, Viral Content That’s Actually Funny: The Onion To Launch ClickHole.com
Watch out Upworthy, BuzzFeed and the other bazillion viral content producers who rely on visitors falling into the rabbit hole of clicking link after viral link on their website. There's soon to be a...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Will Focus on Video, Rethink Traffic Partner Program
Last Friday BuzzFeed announced it would wind down its traffic partner network in order to focus more on video. Reported Quartz' John McDuling, a note to network participants read: BuzzFeed has decided...
View ArticleWhat To Read Today: Interview With Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti
If you only read one thing on the Internet today, this is it. And it will probably be all you have time to read, clocking in at the 91 minute mark according to Medium's estimation. (But hey, if your...
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