The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting To Burnout
When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?
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When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match—but not on Tinder, OkCupid or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”
Hillary Flynn, Keith Cousins, Elizabeth Naismith Picciani Buzzfeed, ProPublica Dec 2019 30min Permalink
Once pigeonholed as “the hottest blonde ever,” the star of Birds of Prey has become one of Hollywood’s most promising producers.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Feb 2020 20min Permalink
“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”
Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2021 25min Permalink
Megha Rajagopalan is a senior correspondent for Buzzfeed News. She won a Pulitzer for her coverage of the Xinjiang detention camps.
“It’s not so much that I talk to [the Chinese government] to get information. It’s more that I talk to them to see how they think about things and what’s important to them and what’s their view of the world. … There are so many journalists that have been thrown out of China, so there’s very few people that are able to actually have those conversations. And in the U.S., there are these seismic decisions being made about China policy, and if you don’t talk to the people that run the country, it’s a problem.”
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A history of the women’s television channel and its push to employ female writers and directors long before it became an issue in Hollywood.
Laura Goode Buzzfeed Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Fifty years ago, Rona Barrett forged a Hollywood gossip empire. Then she left it all behind, her innovations attributed to others, her legacy almost entirely overlooked.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2016 25min Permalink
Donald Trump has spent decades seeking revenge on the many people who have taunted him. One of them was this reporter, who two years ago wrote that Trump would never run.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Jul 2016 30min Permalink
Fuzzy memories of a house overlooking the Sunset Strip that played host to a generation of comics—including Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, and Robin Williams—launching dozens of careers and about as many drug problems.
David Peisner Buzzfeed Oct 2015 35min Permalink
An investigation into the past of a prominent voice in the men’s rights movement.
Adam Serwer, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Feb 2015 25min Permalink
After DNA test cleared Clarence Harrison of a crime he didn’t commit, he was released from prison and awarded $1 million. But the redemption story he tells publicly hides a more complicated reality.
Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2015 25min Permalink
When Putin suggested to Obama that the White House and the Kremlin speak through an intermediary, he named who he thought was the obvious candidate: his friend Steven Seagal.
Max Seddon, Rosie Gray Buzzfeed Apr 2015 20min Permalink
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Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.
Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Jan 2018 15min Permalink
It was a place where you could, whatever you needed could to look like, for so many folks who’d been told they could not.
Bryan Washington Buzzfeed Jun 2019 15min Permalink
A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2020 25min Permalink
A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.
Pranav Dixit Buzzfeed News Apr 2021 20min Permalink
“In the recent history of American music, there’s no figure parallel to Lehrer in his effortless ascent to fame, his trajectory into the heart of the culture — and then his quiet, amiable, inexplicable departure.”
Ben Smith, Anita Badejo Buzzfeed Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jun 2015 30min Permalink
A business opportunity stemming from “a moment in time when the debate over how colleges should address sexual assault has reached a fever pitch.”
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jul 2015 15min Permalink
Angie Nwandu has no journalism experience. No publishing experience. She’s 25. And in less than two years she has created an entirely new way to cover — and profit from — celebrity gossip.
Doree Shafrir Buzzfeed Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The promises and pitfalls of self-tracking devices and apps.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends didn’t realize what he’d done until they saw his image on television.
Masha Gessen Buzzfeed Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Patients say it feels like they’re drowning. Doctors say there’s nothing wrong. One thing is certain: medical professionals are finding they may not know as much about the nose as they’d thought.
Joel Oliphint Buzzfeed Apr 2016 25min Permalink
“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”
Emily Weiss has reinvented herself from reality TV villain to patron saint of dewy skin, no-makeup makeup, and no-commerce commerce. Why young women — and investors — are buying in.
Nitasha Tiku Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink