BuzzFeed News
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BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011. It ceased posting new hard news content in May 2023. It published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Steele dossier, for which it was strongly criticized,[1][2][3] and the FinCEN Files. It won the George Polk Award, The Sidney Award, the National Magazine Award, the National Press Foundation award, and the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
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![]() Buzzfeed News website on July 21, 2018 | |
Type of site | News |
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Available in | English |
Founded | December 2011; 12 years ago (2011-12) |
Dissolved | May 5, 2023; 14 months ago (2023-05-05) |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Owner | BuzzFeed |
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URL | buzzfeednews |
Advertising | Native |
Current status | Discontinued |
On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced that BuzzFeed News would be gradually shut down as part of company-wide layoffs.[4] BuzzFeed, Inc. refocused its news efforts on HuffPost, which the company had acquired in 2020.[5][6] BuzzFeed News discontinued adding new content on May 5, 2023.[7] As of July 2024 there continue to be new celebrity gossip articles being posted to the buzzfeednews.com domain.