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by belval 1545 days ago
Oh please, Buzzfeed does not have a good reputation, yes some articles were pretty good, but it's far from something people would be willing to defend as a good news source.

Investors don't have to shoulder costs for a service that no one cares about. You want a "what flavour of jelly bean are you" quiz you go to Buzzfeed. You want serious news you read one of the countless other site that covers world news. Yes it's cynical, but if I had money in Buzzfeed I would have pressured the CEO too.
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AlexC04 1545 days ago
Their news does have a good reputation. Their news org is high quality.
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blackearl 1545 days ago
Despite that they are burdened by the Buzzfeed name. Just look at this thread arguing back and forth about this. They should really spin it off and shed all the Buzzfeed branding.
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purephase 1545 days ago
They did just win a pullitzer for their international reporting last year. I'd say that goes quite a way towards improving their reputation.
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belval 1545 days ago
That's not what I meant, the articles from Buzzfeed News were good, I don't deny it.

That being said, their reputation as "Buzzfeed" is bad, if you repeat a piece of information to someone and say that you "read it on Buzzfeed", there will be an inherent bias that the source is bad, because most people associate them with terrible pop-culture articles on Facebook and don't even know that they won a pullitzer prize.

In that context, their reputation is permanently damaged for most people. If Buzzfeed really want to create "serious" news branch they'd have to call it something else at the very least.

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gaws 1545 days ago
BuzzFeed News can't rely on one prize to boost their reputation when they have a severe retention problem. Two of the three reporters on that winning team no longer work there.
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999900000999 1545 days ago
It would make more sense to split it off into a different brand.

I rank BuzzFeed on the same level as the Huffington Post. You want real news? Go to the Associated Press directly, or Reuters.

NYT can be ok, but their monetization tactics are kind of weird

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lupire 1545 days ago
Buzzfeed is goofy. NYT is establishment partisan. Buzzfeed is a better brand.
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newfriend 1545 days ago
Buzzfeed is goofy partisan. How is that better?
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