BuzzFeeder

English Etymology From en BuzzFeed er occupation. Noun A writer at BuzzFeed; a BuzzFeed employee. en Alex Clark Know about BuzzFeed Evening Standard Magazine 29 November 2013 23–24 That word ‘share’ is perhaps the most important in BuzzFeed’s lexicon (with the possible exception of ‘list’, and its variant, the slightly queasy ‘listicle’). It peppers the conversation of every BuzzFeeder I speak to; it underpins the company’s entire business model and provides its raison d’être. en w:San Francisco Examiner 31 May 2017 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/570494386/ Scaachi Koul: The BuzzFeed writer is promoting her funny debut essay collection, “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter” in an appearance with fellow BuzzFeed-er Doree Shafrir, author the novel “Startup,” a parody of the tech industry. en w:Jill Abramson Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2019 117 and 339 978-1-5011-2320-7 The quest for ever-bigger blockbusters kept BuzzFeeders glued to their computer screens. After specifically addressing the false claim, made by former BuzzFeeder turned Time reporter Zeke Miller, that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office, [Sean] Spicer took aim at another piece of bad press for [Donald] Trump, despite the facts being stacked against him. en Edmund Lee BuzzFeed plans layoffs as it aims to turn profit The Tribune 24 January 2019 5A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/716848121/ [Jonah] Peretti sent a note to employees at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time with the subject line “Difficult Changes.” “Hello BuzzFeeders,” he wrote. “I’m writing with sad news: we are doing layoffs at BuzzFeed next week.” en Ian Burrell What killed the Buzz? w:Evening Standard 15 February 2019 24–25 “This was an extraordinary period of growth, going to this enormous, expensive real estate,” says one BuzzFeeder. When [Jonah] Peretti attempted to reach out to staff via an “Ask Jonah Anything” channel on the internal messaging service Slack (the app is essential to BuzzFeeders) he was told to seek “outside training” in managing job losses. All BuzzFeeders I spoke to believe it has a sustainable future. en Maxwell Strachan The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning w:HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/the-fall-of-mic-was-a-warning_au_5d373375e4b0419fd333b9e2 23 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20211017055607/https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/the-fall-of-mic-was-a-warning_au_5d373375e4b0419fd333b9e2 17 October 2021 Two recently laid-off journalists, ex-HuffPoster Laura Bassett and ex-BuzzFeeder John Stanton, even launched an advocacy group to bring attention to the “existential threat” the tech giants present to the industry. en Gregory A. Borchard The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism 2nd SAGE Publications, Inc. 2022 978-1-5443-9115-1 Consumers can apply to become a “BuzzFeeder” and create original content such as quizzes, listicles, or short articles using instructions from BuzzFeed so that the content matches the tone and look of BuzzFeed’s original content.