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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by maccio92 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:48PM (#18984935)
Verizon is a journalism company?
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by coolspot on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:50PM (#18984952)
> With brands like Yahoo, HuffPost and TechCrunch, Verizon Media transforms how people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact.

[0] - https://www.verizonmedia.com/

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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by Blaaguuu on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:51PM (#18984963)
From the article: "Verizon Media Group, the portfolio of media brands that includes Yahoo, AOL and The Huffington Post"
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by elektor on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:53PM (#18984979)
Verizon is the parent of Oath (and therefore owns TechCrunch)
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by GhostVII on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:39PM (#18985245)
Oath is now called Verizon Media
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by porpoisely on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:52PM (#18984976)
Buzzfeed is?
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by ceejayoz on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:58PM (#18985027)
They were finalists for the 2017 and 2018 Pulitzer prizes, so the answer's a pretty clear "yes".
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by porpoisely on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:09PM (#18985102)
Wasn't Pulitzer the creator of yellow journalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Frankly, the pulizter, oscar or any of these prizes are meaningless to me since it is apparent that they are part advertisements and part agenda pushing and any objective measure of achievement. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by ceejayoz on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:15PM (#18985127)
If the most prestigious award in journalism doesn't count for anything, you could always read up on how they formed their investigative arm (which includes links to some pretty solid journalism): https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-a...

Or you can just go "nuh uh". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by nailer on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:04AM (#18987356)
They gave money to a disgruntled Guardian employee, so widely disliked employees voted against her promotion to editor, who then took her team with her?
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by philwelch on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:49PM (#18984950)
They're a media company at the very least.
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by garmaine on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:03PM (#18985053)
They own Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by blfr on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:55PM (#18985319)
Tricky answer.
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Re:BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce by nvr219 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:10PM (#18985108)
Yes
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