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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  Confessions of an ex-Facebook trending news curator: 'They are just going to get rid of the product altogether'

  Digiday  - Tanya Dua

  Barely two days after changes to its Trending Topics section, a fake article about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly began trending on Facebook — before …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  Exclusive: BuzzFeed Divides Its News and Entertainment Divisions in Company-Wide Reorganization

  Vanity Fair - Emily Jane Fox

  BuzzFeed, the somewhat new media giant, is multiplying. The company announced today that it will separate itself into two distinct departments—BuzzFeed News and a newly formed BuzzFeed Entertainment Group (BFEG)—in a move aimed at solidifying its dominance in digital video. In a memo sent to …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  Aug 23, 2016
• "If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money."

  

  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight

  Gawker - Tom Scocca

  A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com. This is the final act in what Thiel wished to …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  These are the best podcasts you should be listening to right now

  Business Insider - Rafi Letzter

  Podcasts have become excellent sources for great storytelling, interviews, and journalism. From a few minutes to more than an hour, podcasts give content creators a chance to speak directly to their listeners free of distractions, and give listeners a new way to expand their minds during their daily …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  Did I Kill Gawker?

  New York Magazine - Max Read

  It feels a bit strange to say this now, but in the spring of 2014 there was no better place to work than Gawker. For a certain kind of person, at any …