BuzzFeeder

plural BuzzFeeders

1. A writer at BuzzFeed; a BuzzFeed employee.

   Two recently laid-off journalists, ex-HuffPoster Laura Bassett and ex-BuzzFeeder John Stanton, even launched an advocacy group to bring attention to the “existential threat” the tech giants present to the industry.

   2019 July 23, Maxwell Strachan, “The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021

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   That word ‘share’ is perhaps the most important in BuzzFeed’s lexicon (with the possible exception of ‘list’, and its variant, the slightly queasy ‘listicle’). It peppers the conversation of every BuzzFeeder I speak to; it underpins the company’s entire business model and provides its raison d’être.

   2013 November 29, Alex Clark, “Know about BuzzFeed”, in Evening Standard Magazine, pages 23–24

   Scaachi Koul: The BuzzFeed writer is promoting her funny debut essay collection, “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter” in an appearance with fellow BuzzFeed-er Doree Shafrir, author the^([sic]) novel “Startup,” a parody of the tech industry.

   2017 May 31, San Francisco Examiner, page 2

   The quest for ever-bigger blockbusters kept BuzzFeeders glued to their computer screens. […] After specifically addressing the false claim, made by former BuzzFeeder turned Time reporter Zeke Miller, that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office, [Sean] Spicer took aim at another piece of bad press for [Donald] Trump, despite the facts being stacked against him.

   2019, Jill Abramson, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, pages 117 and 339

   [Jonah] Peretti sent a note to employees at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time with the subject line “Difficult Changes.” “Hello BuzzFeeders,” he wrote. “I’m writing with sad news: we are doing layoffs at BuzzFeed next week.[…]”

   2019 January 24, Edmund Lee, “BuzzFeed plans layoffs as it aims to turn profit”, in The Tribune, page 5A

   “This was an extraordinary period of growth, going to this enormous, expensive real estate,” says one BuzzFeeder. […] When [Jonah] Peretti attempted to reach out to staff via an “Ask Jonah Anything” channel on the internal messaging service Slack (the app is essential to BuzzFeeders) he was told to seek “outside training” in managing job losses. […] All BuzzFeeders I spoke to believe it has a sustainable future.

   2019 February 15, Ian Burrell, “What killed the Buzz?”, in Evening Standard, pages 24–25