Nieman Lab has chronicled the ups and downs of BuzzFeed News since 2011, when the company hired a blogger named Ben Smith. Here’s part I of its history, from 2011 to 2017. Stay tuned for Part II.
A news organization shuts down, and its writers move to Substack while they’re trying to decide what to do next: We’ve seen that before. This time the story has a twist: A former editor …
A former editor of Politico’s now-defunct tech site, Protocol, has bought a chunk of the company’s email list and is launching an independent, ad-supported…