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The folks harping on about how @BuzzFeed isn't a real news source are simply showing their own lack of media literacy. BuzzFeed has been doing excellent investigative journalism for years on a range of major topics.
Let me help you understand their impact on the field. *ahem*
My good friend who is also a flat out genius, @RosalindZAdams, won multiple awards for nailing UHS to the wall for unsafe and exploitative mental health practices. nationalpress.org/topic/mental-h…
My good friend who is also a flat out genius, @RosalindZAdams, won multiple awards for nailing UHS to the wall for unsafe and exploitative mental health practices. nationalpress.org/topic/mental-h…
They have won two ONA awards for pieces on 1) Fixing tennis matches and 2) Russian hitmen. Name another news organization that does that diverse of investigative work. awards.journalists.org/organizations/…
That Russian hitmen story was a finalist for a Pulitzer in 2018. poynter.org/reporting-edit…
Buzzfeed was also a finalist the year before for reporting on an international arbitration process that screwed developing countries.
Let me state the obvious and say it's a BFD for a non-legacy media company to be a finalist at all. Much less twice.
poynter.org/reporting-edit…
Let me state the obvious and say it's a BFD for a non-legacy media company to be a finalist at all. Much less twice.
poynter.org/reporting-edit…
Last year they were also a finalist for this very prestigious investigative journalism award for exposing a CHICAGO DETECTIVE ACCUSED OF FRAMING FIFTY PEOPLE. shorensteincenter.org/2018-goldsmith…
