Hackernews posts about BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed is a digital media company that was initially known for its viral and humorous online content, but has since expanded to include news, entertainment, and lifestyle coverage.

1. BuzzFeed News is shutting down (www.thedailybeast.com)
   444 points by jbegley over 1 year ago | 253 comments
2. BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150% (www.cnn.com)
   85 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 99 comments
3. BuzzFeed is quietly publishing whole AI-generated articles, not just quizzes (futurism.com)
   71 points by danso over 1 year ago | 15 comments
4. BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down, Company Laying Off 180 Staffers (variety.com)
   45 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 22 comments
5. BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories using OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
   39 points by nickthegreek over 1 year ago | 14 comments
6. BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Some of Its Content (www.wsj.com)
   22 points by jackallis over 1 year ago | 15 comments
7. ‘Like Icarus – now everyone is burnt’: how Vice and BuzzFeed fell to earth (www.theguardian.com)
   14 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | 11 comments
8. BuzzFeed Moves to Close BuzzFeed News, Lays Off 15% of Staff (www.wsj.com)
   8 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | discuss
9. A history of BuzzFeed News, Part I: 2011–2017 (www.niemanlab.org)
   6 points by mbanerjeepalmer over 1 year ago | 1 comments
10. Why BuzzFeed and Vice Couldn’t Make News Work (www.vanityfair.com)
    5 points by baylearn over 1 year ago | 7 comments
11. BuzzFeed is using AI to write SEO-bait travel guides (www.theverge.com)
    5 points by rntn over 1 year ago | discuss
12. BuzzFeed has lost its way (twitter.com)
    4 points by lando2319 4 months ago | 1 comments
13. BuzzFeed Shares Nearly Double on Layoff Plans, $108.6M Complex Sale (www.marketwatch.com)
    4 points by alephnan 7 months ago | 1 comments
14. BuzzFeed, Blue Check Marks, and the End of an Internet Era (www.newyorker.com)
    4 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 1 comments
15. Fate of “Free“ Online Publishers: BuzzFeed’s Existential Crisis (wolfstreet.com)
    4 points by passwordoops almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
16. BuzzFeed News to close as media firm cuts jobs (www.bbc.com)
    4 points by citizenkeen over 1 year ago | discuss
17. BuzzFeed news is shutting down (twitter.com)
    4 points by doener over 1 year ago | discuss
18. Are BuzzFeed’s AI-generated travel articles bad in a scary new way? (www.niemanlab.org)
    4 points by Michelangelo11 over 1 year ago | discuss
19. BuzzFeed to use AI to ‘enhance’ its content and quizzes (www.theguardian.com)
    4 points by ranit over 1 year ago | discuss
20. Jonah Peretti Has Regrets About BuzzFeed News (www.newyorker.com)
    3 points by mitchbob over 1 year ago | 1 comments
21. BuzzFeed News will shut down (www.cnn.com)
    3 points by madmanweb over 1 year ago | 1 comments
22. Vivek Ramaswamy Buys BuzzFeed Stake So He Can Pretend He's 'Fixing Journalism' (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by rntn 4 months ago | discuss
23. How BuzzFeed News Went Bust (nymag.com)
    3 points by colinprince over 1 year ago | discuss
24. BuzzFeed, Blue Check Marks, and the End of an Internet Era (www.newyorker.com)
    3 points by fortran77 over 1 year ago | discuss
25. BuzzFeed, after gutting its newsroom, asks reporters to produce even more (www.vanityfair.com)
    3 points by CharlesW over 1 year ago | discuss
26. BuzzFeed Plans to Cut 12% of Workforce (www.wsj.com)
    3 points by mfiguiere almost 2 years ago | discuss
27. The Unbearable Lightness of BuzzFeed (www.theverge.com)
    3 points by axiomdata316 almost 2 years ago | discuss
28. A history of BuzzFeed News, Part I: 2011–2017 (www.niemanlab.org)
    2 points by _delirium about 1 year ago | 1 comments
29. Facebook Made BuzzFeed, Then Killed It (www.wired.com)
    2 points by pg_1234 over 1 year ago | 1 comments
30. The Death of BuzzFeed News Was a Facebook Murder-Suicide (reason.com)
    2 points by Bostonian over 1 year ago | 1 comments