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by Thomas Urbain Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — America’s free online news heavyweights, BuzzFeed and HuffPost, this week were rocked by a new wave of layoffs, a sign of an advertising-dependent economic model under threat. At BuzzFeed, it was the second wave of job cuts in 14 months. In an internal announcement the company said that 200 jobs were to be shed, which follows the 100 jobs cut in the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The next season of Netflix’s award-winning “House of Cards” will be the last, a spokesman said Monday, as the series reeled over sexual misconduct allegations against its star Kevin Spacey. The 58-year-old double Oscar winner, who plays ruthless President Francis Underwood in the hit show, is facing claims from actor Anthony Rapp that he “made a sexual advance” at a party 31 years ago while Rapp was underage. […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – Facebook Inc. has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media and BuzzFeed among others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, according to several sources familiar with the situation. Facebook is planning two tiers of video entertainment: scripted shows with episodes lasting 20 to 30 minutes, which it will own; and shorter scripted and unscripted shows […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Fake election news got more attention than did real stories on Facebook during the final months of the US presidential campaign, according to an analysis published Wednesday by BuzzFeed News. The tech news outlet found that the 20 top-performing bogus stories from hoax websites and extremely partisan blogs generated slightly more than 8.7 million shares, reactions and comments at the leading social network in the three months before […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service online correspondent BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News) — Content may still be king but distribution is the queen and she wears the trousers. Quoting Buzzfeed’s founder Jonah Peretti, the CEO of MIDiA Research Mark Mulligan aptly described the dynamics in the changing landscape for mobile media entertainment that includes the latest trends, forecasts and analysis for the sector. In his presentation “Content Strategy in the Age of the Distributed […]
Twitter Inc. and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network’s co-founder and other employees, the company said in reaction to media reports. Islamic State supporters, in online posts on Sunday (March 1), called for attacks against Twitter and its “interests,” including death threats, according to the online news media company Buzzfeed as well as the NBC news network. “Our security team is investigating the veracity […]
BuzzFeed, a popular entertainment website in the United States, tried Jollibee for the first time. It described Jollibee as the “world’s most popular Filipino fast food restaurant” and had their staff, mostly white Americans, try it. Their reactions were quite entertaining, one of the staff members said, “Burger steak, it’s beautiful!” One of the testers who tried Jollibee’s halo-halo said “How stoned are the Jollibee people when making all this stuff up,” not knowing that […]
