Goba rejoins BuzzFeed News as a national politics reporter
BuzzFeed News welcomes back Kadia Goba as a national politics reporter. Her new role begins Jun. 1. She was previously at BuzzFeed from 2019 to 2020, during which time she was a congressional reporter and then a White House reporter for the company. She then left in 2020 to join Axios as a congressional reporter. […]
Strudwick joins i newspaper as a special correspondent
The i newspaper has hired Patrick Strudwick as a special correspondent, investigations and social affairs. Previously, he worked at BuzzFeed. He has also worked at Channel 4 and was a consultant producer at the BBC. He has also freelanced for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Observer, Mosaic Science and The Mail on Sunday. […]
Villa returns to BuzzFeed as national political reporter
BuzzFeed welcomes back Lissandra Villa as a national political reporter. She was previously with BuzzFeed working as a general assignment political reporter from October 2016 to April 2019. In 2019, she left BuzzFeed to join Time as a staff writer. She worked there for 2 years and is now returning. She was also an election […]
BuzzFeed announces layoffs for HuffPost staffers
BuzzFeed announced deep cuts for the HuffPost newsroom three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media. Hillary Frey, the site’s executive editor, and Louise Roug, the executive editor for international, will be leaving as part of a restructuring effort aimed at stemming financial losses. Additionally, HuffPost Canada will also be shutting operations later this month. […]
Pears joins FT as news desk editor
Elizabeth Pears has joined the Financial Times as a news desk editor following her maternity leave. Previously, she was at BuzzFeed, where she held the post of news editor. Prior to that, she was deputy news editor.. Pears started her career as a freelance journalist – news editing, features, and breaking news, and then became […]
Ex-BuzzFeed biz editor Gara joins Facebook
Tom Gara, the former business editor at BuzzFeed News who left this summer, has been hired by Facebook. Gara will be technology communications manager working in the office of the company’s chief technology officer. Before joining BuzzFeed, Gara was editor, corporate intelligence at The Wall Street Journal where he edited and wrote for the publication’s business section. […]
Washington Post hires Sands to cover breaking news and enterprise
Darren Sands is joining the general assignment news desk at the Washington Post to cover breaking news and enterprise stories. Sands joins the Post from BuzzFeed, where he spent more than five years working as a senior politics reporter. Prior to that, Sands was sports business editor at Black Enterprise and also served as a […]
Senior tech reporter Kantrowitz leaving BuzzFeed
Alex Kantrowitz, a senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed, plans to leave the news organization next month. Kantrowitz writes, “I owe BuzzFeed everything. Ben Smith, Mat Honan, and John Paczkowski turned me into the reporter I always hoped I’d be. Five years after joining this newsroom, I’ve written a book on the tech giants, won a Mirror […]
BuzzFeed ceases news operations in U.K. and Australia
BuzzFeed will be closing down its operations in London and Australia because of “economic and strategic reasons,” reports BBC. The U.S. company says it will be focusing on news that “hits big in the United States during this difficult period”. Although some staff will remain to cover social news, celebrity and investigations but estimates suggest […]
NY Times hires Hughes to oversee health and science
The New York Times has appointed Virginia Hughes as its new editor in the health and science department. Her new role begins June 22. Previously, Hughes was deputy editor-in-chief at BuzzFeed, a post she was promoted to after four years working as a science editor at the company. Prior to that, Hughes was working as […]
