Fri Apr 21, 2023 – 4:51 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Left-wing media outlet BuzzFeed will no longer operate its newsroom after leadership determined the platform couldn’t be maintained amid company-wide layoffs.
Founder and CEO Jonah Peretti announced Thursday that BuzzFeed News will not continue its reporting since BuzzFeed Inc. laid off 15% of its employees. The parent company also owns the online news sites Huffington Post and Complex Networks.
“While layoffs are occurring across nearly every division, we’ve determined that the company can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News as a standalone organization,” Peretti wrote in a memo to the outlet’s employees. “Moving forward, we will have a single news brand in HuffPost, which is profitable, with a loyal direct front page audience.”
Peretti added that the news outlet and the parent organization “have signaled that they will open a number of select roles for members of BuzzFeed News.”
Over the years, BuzzFeed News has wavered in its publishing of conservative opinions and news. Peretti’s news outlet began as an experiment with viral media, sparked by an incident with Nike. In 2001, Peretti, then a graduate student at MIT, requested that the clothing brand customize
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