Jonah Peretti: And at number one on Buzzfeed's list is...
If the name Jonah Peretti rings even fewer bells than his website Buzzfeed, then you're probably over 35 or ailurophobic. Only old age or a pathological fear of cats could explain not knowing about one...
View ArticleHow Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton Created His Own Mess
As the media world weighs in on the recent Gawker fracas caused by 27-year-old staff writer Jordan Sargent posting a controversial...
View ArticleNick Denton Steps Down As Gawker's President
3:52 PM ET Krishnadev Calamur Twitter Managing partners at Gawker: Erin Pettigrew (@superfem) and Heather Dietrick (@heetstweets). c. Victor Jeffreys. pic.twitter.com/IJSh1GGoLK— Nick Denton...
View ArticleWill Hulk Hogan be the person to bring down Gawker?
JONATHAN MAHLERTampa Bay Times Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:01am NEW YORK — "I'm pretty sure we have a revolution coming," said Nick Denton, founder and chief executive of Gawker Media. "It's not 100...
View ArticleDr. Ruth Has a Question for Michael Bloomberg
Katie Couric, via a new Tumblr blog, has been keeping readers posted about tomorrow’s big Yahoo debut. The global anchor solicited questions from readers for her conversation with Michael Bloomberg and...
View ArticleBuzzfeed chases viral-video magic
Jonah Peretti, founder and chief executive of the wildly popular website BuzzFeed, is trying to choose his favorite online video. Drunk vs. Stoned was pretty fun, he finally says, singling out a...
View ArticleWhy Buzzfeed is trying to shift its strategy
By Claire Cain Miller In an interview about a new investment in BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti, its co-founder and chief executive, told The New York Times, "We're organizing ourselves to be a media company...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Attempts to Explain Why 4,000 Posts Were Deleted
Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed’s CEO, has a non-explanation explanation for why his site secretly deleted more than 4,000 posts. In an interview with Slate, Peretti admitted that “We probably could have...
View ArticleBuzzFeed sees future in high-quality content
In an interview about a new investment in BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti, its co-founder and chief executive, told The New York Times, "We're organizing ourselves to be a media company for the way people...
View ArticleBuzzFeed restores posts editor deleted from site
After a flurry of criticism online, BuzzFeed on Friday reinstated two posts that had recently been removed from the site. Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief, said that he had overreacted when asking...
View ArticleWhat To Read Today: Interview With Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti
If you only read one thing on the Internet today, this is it. And it will probably be all you have time to read, clocking in at the 91 minute mark according to Medium’s estimation. (But hey, if your...
View ArticleDisruptions: Gawker Wants to Encourage More Voices Online, but With Less Yelling
By NICK BILTON There are corners of the Internet that contain some of the most slimy and vitriolic stuff you could imagine, places where people snipe, jeer and behave like a frenzied mob. I’m talking...
View ArticleBuzzFeed is going viral just like some of its videos
Jonah Peretti, founder and chief executive of the wildly popular website BuzzFeed, is trying to choose his favorite online video. "'Drunk vs. Stoned' was pretty fun," he finally says, singling out a...
View Article5 Lessons for Creating 'Viral' Content from BuzzFeed
Anyone who has ever been on Facebook has probably been on BuzzFeed. The originator of the omnipresent listicle. Of cat memes and baby videos, that home of the wacky and weird on the internet, BuzzFeed...
View ArticleGawker’s Nick Denton: ‘We are not part of your PR marketing machine’
The online media company’s founder on keeping control of a changing business, breaking free of data – and the Hulk Hogan sex-tape trial...
View ArticleGawker takes down post on media executive after outrage
Even the Internet's most hard-charging website has its limits. Gawker has said it will remove a post about a New York media executive's disastrous attempt to book a male escort after the story lead to...
View ArticleBuzzFeed, Ben Smith and how to harness the viral power of the bored-at-work...
BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Photo: Macey J. Foronda for BuzzFeed It's employee appreciation week at the headquarters of BuzzFeed, the attention-seeking digital publisher that reckons it...
View ArticleWith Disney deal off the table where does Buzzfeed go now?
According to Fortune Magazine, internet darling Buzzfeed and media goliath Disney (DIS) broke off talks earlier this year of a deal for the latter to acquire the former. The report suggests Buzzfeed...
View ArticleBuzzFeed's 200 million visitors? Small potatoes
BuzzFeed draws 200 million people to its site every month. To the site's co-founder, Jonah Peretti, that's small potatoes. When Peretti took the stage at sun-drenched media lovefest SXSW in Austin this...
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton Opens About Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Lawsuit
Gawker Media is in the fight of its life with ex-wrestler Hulk Hogan. The company is facing a $100 million lawsuit filed by Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, for publishing a leaked video that showed the...
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton: Why Buzzfeed's Money-Centric Mission Is Flawed
Click for sound. Please enable Javascript to watch this video Gawker's founder Nick Denton shares his views on what makes a media company successful, and tells us why his publication biggest...
View ArticleThis Facebook Exec Doesn't Like Buzzfeed, And That's Very Bad News For Buzzfeed
Chris Cox "has a problem" with Buzzfeed In Buzzfeed, Huffington Post veteran Jonah Peretti has created a massive new media property with 130 monthly unique visitors. Buzzfeed got huge by creating (and...
View ArticleBuzzFeed valued at more than three times The Washington Post
Viral internet site set up by Jonah Peretti in 2006 now employs 550 staff in New York, London, Sydney, Paris and more...
View ArticleOMG, BuzzFeed's Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW?
Anyone who has hankered for a list of 10 of the most life-affirming dog rescue stories ever can rely on the social media site BuzzFeed. That list of 11 classic horror films that should never have been...
View ArticleGawker Chief Nick Denton Says He Has A Cure For Internet Trolls
In conversation with Business Insider Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget at Ignition 2013 in New York, Gawker Media boss Nick Denton laid out how to get love — and avoid trolls — on his extremely popular...
View Article>Gawker Chief Nick Denton Says He Has A Cure For Internet Trolls
In conversation with Business Insider Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget at Ignition 2013 in New York, Gawker Media boss Nick Denton laid out how to get love — and avoid trolls — on his extremely popular...
View ArticleGawker's high-profile resignations are the least of its worries to stay afloat
The pioneering digital media site can recover from the latest scandal with its signature ‘snark’ and talented staff. But financial woes, the $100m Hulk Hogan lawsuit and the philosophical tug-of-war...
View ArticleOMG! Buzzfeed Coming To Canada
The website that first put the letters “OMG” in a headline announced its plans to expand to the Great White North on Thursday. Buzzfeed says it will be opening an office in Toronto, the Financial Post...
View ArticleBuzzFeed founder says unionizing would not be 'great' for company
Jonah Peretti said there’s no need for union because digital media company provides ‘amazing benefits’ and fosters ‘alliance’ between managers and staff...
View ArticleGawker Rips Buzzfeed in Ban on ‘WTF,’ ‘Epic’ and Other Internet Slang From...
OMG, this happened. Gawker's newest editor-in-chief, Max Read, sent a memo to his website's staff this week banning internet slang and slamming BuzzFeed. Read told TheWrap the guidelines weren't...
View ArticleDisney Tried to Acquire BuzzFeed
Keep an eye out on Facebook for BuzzFeed's next listacle: 21 Reasons Disney Didn't Acquire Us. Fortune reports that the Walt Disney Co. was in negotiations earlier this year to acquire the media outlet...
View Article‘The Wolf of BuzzFeed’ Hilariously Lampoons the Cat-Loving Website and Jonah...
What if Jordan Belfort had been more into cats and the 90s? Half Day Today explores that question in a funny new satirical trailer entitled “The Wolf of BuzzFeed.” Also read: Gawker's Nick Denton Picks...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Teams Up With Ex-Gawker Traffic Guru at Whisper
BuzzFeed has reached a content-sharing agreement with Whisper, an anonymous social network where former Gawker traffic guru Neetzan Zimmerman is now editor-in-chief. Zimmerman and another Whisper...
View Article>NICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View ArticleHere’s an Example of Gawker ‘Struggling for the Soul of Internet Media’
During a Q&A session with Gawker readers, Nick Denton — founder of the Gawker Media empire — said some hilarious things. The most...
View ArticleWhy Gawker Media's Nick Denton Is Constantly Attacking BuzzFeed And Its CEO...
Nick Denton Gawker Media founder Nick Denton does not like BuzzFeed. Yesterday he launched another seemingly unprovoked attack against BuzzFeed. On Gawker's new commenting platform Kinja, Denton wrote,...
View ArticleGawker's Nick Denton Picks Fight With BuzzFeed, Calls Website ‘Pointless’
Gawker has BuzzFeed in its snarky crosshairs. The website's founder Nick Denton held an online meeting on Tuesday and singled out the listicle-loving social content sharing website as its chief rival....
View ArticleNick Denton: ‘Our Biggest Competitor in Media is BuzzFeed’
Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, took to a Gawker Kinja site today to answer questions from readers. It was basically Gawker’s version of Reddit’s popular...
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton Stepping Down as President
Gawker founder Nick Denton is stepping down as the company's president, but he will stay on as CEO. “I have some important news,” he wrote to staff�on Wednesday. “Usually, that's how I start a...
View ArticleGawker Media’s employees dispute Nick Denton’s record
In a meeting today at the offices of Gawker Media, founder and CEO Nick Denton stood before employees to defend his decision of last week to summarily disappear an article about the personal life of a...
View ArticleBuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: how the great entertainer got serious
Chief executive on not paying to push news on Facebook, measuring impact not traffic, and his best content...
View ArticleListicle site Buzzfeed moves into profit four years after launch
Founder Jonah Peretti tells staff that it will become one of the biggest sites on the web within a year...
View ArticleNICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
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