Buzzfeed And Huffingandpuffington Post Lay Off 1000 Journalists Because Of Covington Story

[mudwhistle]

Paybacks are a motherfucker....even when you're a dishonest journalist. https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/buzzfeed-to-reportedly-lay-off-15-percent-of-its-workforce/

BuzzFeed to reportedly lay off 15 percent of its workforce

Massive job cuts are coming to BuzzFeed — with 15 percent of its workforce getting the ax.

A memo sent to employees during the early evening Wednesday from Chief Executive Jonah Peretti, with the subject line “Difficult Changes,” told of plans to lay off 15 percent of the workforce, or about 200 staffers.

The cuts target the global and web content departments, including the news division, according to sources.

“Hello BuzzFeeders,” Peretti wrote in the memo. “I’m writing with sad news: we are doing layoffs at BuzzFeed next week. We will be making a 15% overall reduction in headcount across the company.”

The digital native publisher is reportedly looking to get the expense side in line with revenue for a possible sale or merger with another media property.

BuzzFeed was relying on Facebook traffic for millions of page views and clicks until recently but has seen traffic fall following the social media giant’s repeated algorithm changes.

While it’s unclear if it played a role in the site’s profitability, a Jan. 10 Facebook update made it so users would see posts from friends and family before ones from brands and media companies.

Investors in BuzzFeed include NBCUniversal, Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture fund, and Hearst.

Roughly 1,500 people currently work at the NYC-based company. Management was forced to let about 100 staffers go in November 2017 due to dwindling profits.

“We’ve had years when we’ve been profitable, and years when we’re not profitable,” Peretti explained during a 2018 podcast.

“On years when we’re profitable, we haven’t said we’re profitable.”

Many staffers have been dealing with the fallout from the BuzzFeed News controversy last week.

The media outlet has come under fire for its report Friday that President Trump instructed his onetime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress on alleged real estate dealings with the Russians. Special counsel Robert Mueller disputed the report.​

 

[mudwhistle]

President Donald Trump said on Jan. 26 that the recent layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost are the result of “fake news and bad journalism” and suggested that other outlets may suffer the same fate.

“Fake News and bad journalism have caused a big downturn. Sadly, many others will follow. The people want the Truth!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

BuzzFeed and HuffPost laid off more than 1,000 employees in the week leading up to the president’s message. BuzzFeed laid off 15 percent of its workforce, or about 200 staffers, according to a memo sent to employees obtained by The New York Post. Verizon, HuffPost’s parent company, announced a 7 percent workforce cut in its media group, which also contains Yahoo and AOL. Layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost Are Due to 'Fake News and Bad Journalism,' Trump Says​

 

[mudwhistle]

They are going to pay bigly for attacking those kids.


Bringing The Big Guns: Nick Sandmann’s Family Hired Lawyer Who Previously Won $750 Million Defamation Lawsuit


Bringing The Big Guns: Nick Sandmann’s Family Hired Lawyer Who Previously Won $750 Million Defamation Lawsuit

The family of Nick Sandmann has reportedly hired an “aggressive, prominent litigator” who specializes in “libel, defamation, and the First Amendment” to go after mainstream media outlets, their employees, and others who continue to push false or otherwise disproven narratives.

As BizPac Review reports, the family of the 15-year old hired L. Lin Wood of Atlanta to clear their son’s name.

Two weeks ago, Nick Sandmann was a normal teenager attending a private Christian school but after an incident at the Lincoln Memorial, his name is not only well known, but his picture has been plastered all over the mainstream media.

As has been widely reported, Sandmann joined the March for Life—the largest pro-life march in the country—last Saturday in Washington D.C. He attended the pro-life event with his school, Covington Catholic High School.

Then came the incident…

Sandmann and his Coving Catholic peers were involved with a verbal clash with a Native American political activist group and another group of Black Hebrew Israelites.


The Black Hebrew Israelites, a Black supremacist group, hurled insult after insult towards the Christian teenagers. These comments included attacks on their race and religion. The group also singled-out a Black Covington Catholic teenager and called him a “puppet” among other things.

According to various reports, Native American political activist Nathan Phillips approached the Covington Catholic teens and began beating a drum inches away from the face of Nick Sandmann—who stood still and smiled.

…and the ensuing controversy…

The media initially painted the entire incident as the fault of the Covington Catholic teenagers. Different reports said the boys approached Phillips, surrounded him, and even threatened him.

…and the backlash:

People responded differently to the story, but many people—liberals and some conservatives alike—jumped out before details of the story emerged and criticized the boys for their alleged behavior. While many people retracted their stories after other videos of the incident exonerated the boys, some others continue to say the boys were at fault.​

 

[leecross]

Paybacks are a motherfucker....even when you're a dishonest journalist. https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/buzzfeed-to-reportedly-lay-off-15-percent-of-its-workforce/

BuzzFeed to reportedly lay off 15 percent of its workforce

Massive job cuts are coming to BuzzFeed — with 15 percent of its workforce getting the ax.

A memo sent to employees during the early evening Wednesday from Chief Executive Jonah Peretti, with the subject line “Difficult Changes,” told of plans to lay off 15 percent of the workforce, or about 200 staffers.

The cuts target the global and web content departments, including the news division, according to sources.

“Hello BuzzFeeders,” Peretti wrote in the memo. “I’m writing with sad news: we are doing layoffs at BuzzFeed next week. We will be making a 15% overall reduction in headcount across the company.”

The digital native publisher is reportedly looking to get the expense side in line with revenue for a possible sale or merger with another media property.

BuzzFeed was relying on Facebook traffic for millions of page views and clicks until recently but has seen traffic fall following the social media giant’s repeated algorithm changes.

While it’s unclear if it played a role in the site’s profitability, a Jan. 10 Facebook update made it so users would see posts from friends and family before ones from brands and media companies.

Investors in BuzzFeed include NBCUniversal, Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture fund, and Hearst.

Roughly 1,500 people currently work at the NYC-based company. Management was forced to let about 100 staffers go in November 2017 due to dwindling profits.

“We’ve had years when we’ve been profitable, and years when we’re not profitable,” Peretti explained during a 2018 podcast.

“On years when we’re profitable, we haven’t said we’re profitable.”

Many staffers have been dealing with the fallout from the BuzzFeed News controversy last week.

The media outlet has come under fire for its report Friday that President Trump instructed his onetime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress on alleged real estate dealings with the Russians. Special counsel Robert Mueller disputed the report.​

Thanks for this.

I laughed out loud.

Then I wondered about what evil those many vipers set loose all at once will do.

 

[Oddball]

Ain't that a got-dammned shame!

 

[BlueGin]

Oh darn.

Now let’s see this lawyer stick it to them for millions. I will LMAO.

 

[HenryBHough]

Workers being off?

Horse shit.

Drones being put out to pasture?

A more proper place to crank out the crap they've been mis-labeling "news".

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Buzzfeed And Huffingandpuffington Post Lay Off 1000 Journalists Because Of Covington Story

Where does it say that at?

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Buzzfeed And Huffingandpuffington Post Lay Off 1000 Journalists Because Of Covington Story

Where does it say that at?

It’s an extrapolation. Covington is the straw that breaks the camels back. Do a shitty job of reporting the news, and eventually people will lose their jobs.

 

[blastoff]

President Donald Trump said on Jan. 26 that the recent layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost are the result of “fake news and bad journalism” and suggested that other outlets may suffer the same fate.

“Fake News and bad journalism have caused a big downturn. Sadly, many others will follow. The people want the Truth!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

BuzzFeed and HuffPost laid off more than 1,000 employees in the week leading up to the president’s message. BuzzFeed laid off 15 percent of its workforce, or about 200 staffers, according to a memo sent to employees obtained by The New York Post. Verizon, HuffPost’s parent company, announced a 7 percent workforce cut in its media group, which also contains Yahoo and AOL. Layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost Are Due to 'Fake News and Bad Journalism,' Trump Says​

Didn’t Zsa Zsa leave or get booted or something from her HuffPost a while back? I miss her Gabor-like puurings about random lefty lunacy.