BuzzFeed News’ business model turned to dust because they were always at the whim of mercurial tech titans | James Hennessy
[ad_1] The announcement of the demise of BuzzFeed News last week felt unlike the cavalcade of media closures and layoffs of the past decade. In a sense, it represented the death of an entire era. BuzzFeed News, launched in 2011, imagined a format which would marry the intense virality and relentless social media focus of…