
Opinion: BuzzFeed News Wanted to Be Radical – Instead It Was Mainstream Media With Listicles
by Justin Schlosberg
BuzzFeed’s experiment with serious journalism appears to be over, with the company shuttering much of its own and the recently acquired Huffington Post's news operations. This has less to do with ‘market forces’ than the company’s failure to be subversive, writes media academic Justin Schlosberg.