BuzzFeed News
BuzzFeed News is an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011 which 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 heavily criticized, 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.
Buzzfeed News website on July 21, 2018 | |
Type of site | News |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | December 2011 |
| Dissolved | May 5, 2023 |
| 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. BuzzFeed, Inc. refocused its news efforts on HuffPost, which the company had acquired in 2020. BuzzFeed News discontinued adding new content on May 5, 2023. As of February 2024 there are still new celebrity gossip articles being posted to the buzzfeednews.com domain.