BuzzFeed is about to make a third of its UK staff redundant
Business Insider - BuzzFeed to layoff more than 40 of its 140 British staff. BuzzFeed UK's wage bill stands at £10 million. The website's audience has dropped 20% in two years, according to Comscore....
View ArticleWe Surveyed Hundreds About Tech's Harassment Problem. Here Are Their Stories.
BuzzFeed - More than 500 people told BuzzFeed News that they'd been targeted with harassment and discrimination while working in tech, and it had far-reaching implications for their careers and...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Wild West Culture Makes It Harder To Root Out Sexual Misconduct
BuzzFeed - Women in tech tell BuzzFeed News that startups' deprioritization of human resources leaves employees vulnerable.
View ArticlePrivate War: Erik Prince Has Got His Eyes On Afghanistan's Rare Metals
BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed News is publishing the slide presentation by the founder of Blackwater to privatize the Afghan war and mine Afghanistan's valuable minerals. He pitched the proposal to the Trump...
View ArticlePrivate War: Erik Prince Has His Eye On Afghanistan's Rare Metals
BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed News is publishing the slide presentation by the founder of Blackwater to privatize the Afghan war and mine Afghanistan's valuable minerals. He pitched the proposal to the Trump...
View ArticleGOP senator joins calls for ethics probe if Moore wins Senate election
MSN - Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Thursday that if Roy Moore is elected to the Senate next week, there should be an ethics investigation into the sexual assault and misconduct allegations against...
View ArticleBuzzfeed to cut a third of UK staff
London Telegraph - Digital news and entertainment outlet Buzzfeed is now planning to cut just under a third of its UK staff after falling short of revenue targets.
View ArticleThe EU Says Britain Will Remain A Member Of The Single Market And Customs...
BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed News has seen the EU's new draft guidelines that say the UK will continue to accept all EU rules and responsibilities but will not have a seat at the table.
View ArticleAlumna Profile: Caroline Amaba '12, Software Engineer at BuzzFeed
Stevens Institute of Technology - When Caroline Amaba first arrived at Stevens Institute of Technology as a freshman in 2008, a career in tech and media may never have entered her mind. But her choice...
View ArticleMore Men Accuse Proto-Hacker "Cap'n Crunch" Of Inappropriate Sexual Contact
BuzzFeed - The new accounts surfaced after BuzzFeed News published a report in November that questioned John Draper's interactions with young hackers at conventions.
View ArticleKihuen Accuser Says She Reported Sexual Harassment to DCCC 20 Months Before...
Washington Free Beacon - The woman who accused Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D., Nev.) of sexual harassment says she provided the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee with information about the...
View ArticleThe sketchy story about how the founder of RT died just got way sketchier
The Week - New details about the death of the founder of the Russian state-sponsored media company RT have raised more questions than they have answered. Mikhail Lesin's death ? from blunt force...
View ArticleMan Who Alleges "X-Men" Director Bryan Singer Raped Him Says He Wants Justice...
BuzzFeed - In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman said he wants Singer "to be held accountable for his actions." Singer vehemently denies the allegations.
View ArticleNO DEAL: How Secret Talks With Russia to Prevent Election Meddling Collapsed
BuzzFeed - With the 2018 midterms on the horizon, Moscow proposed a sweeping non-interference agreement with the United States, US officials tell BuzzFeed News. The Trump administration said no.
View ArticleMedia Startup Inverse Hires David Spiegel, Ex-CNN and BuzzFeed Sales Exec
Variety - David Spiegel, who helped launch CNN's Great Big Story and was a senior BuzzFeed sales exec, has joined digital-media startup Inverse as chief revenue officer.
View ArticleTrump officials rejected pact on political interference: report
MSN - The Trump administration dismissed a deal from a top Russian diplomat earlier this year regarding a mutual ban between Washington and Moscow on foreign political interference, BuzzFeed News...
View ArticleTrump dossier publication sparked controversy
MSNBC - Rachel Maddow examines the decision by Buzzfeed News to publish the Trump dossier as it became known that the memos were guiding high-level decision-making, and the resulting controversy,...
View Article'Worst Military Fiasco': US Media Reveals Details of Deadly Niger Operation
Sputnik News - BuzzFeed News reported Friday, citing sources, that the deaths of eight soldiers, including four US servicemen, could have been avoided if the US military mission in October at the...
View ArticleHow This Week's Brexit Drama Breathed Some Life Back Into Scottish...
BuzzFeed - An SNP MP told BuzzFeed News the Scottish independence movement has had a shot in the arm because the government's handling of Brexit was a "clusterfuck". But Scottish Conservatives acc
View ArticleSaudi Arabia On Track To Execute The Most People This Year In Two Decades
BuzzFeed - Figures provided exclusively to BuzzFeed News reveal that, despite Mohammed bin Salman's attempt to present himself as a reformer, the country's approach to the death penalty has not changed.
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