| Резюме: | For all its impact and impressive scoops, Buzzfeed suffered from the age-old problem that news doesn’t make money
Not long after launching in the UK, BuzzFeed co-founder Jonah Peretti wrote of his dream for the website, built on viral cat videos, to become the Time magazine for a “new golden age of media”. Comparing BuzzFeed’s trajectory with the iconic magazine of the 20th century, he wrote: “In our case, it only took a few years to go from summarizing web trends in our little Chinatown office to reporting from Syria and the Ukraine.” Yet this week, BuzzFeed pulled the plug on its UK and Australian news operations, effectively ending its global expansion plan. Continue reading... |