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BuzzFeed business section: An authoritative source

Capital New York interviewed BuzzFeed business editor Peter Lauria about the website’s business news coverage.

Here is an excerpt:

CAPITAL: You recently tweeted that you’ve seen multiples pieces “thinkfluenced” by Buzzfeed Business, founded one year ago. How is your desk shaping other news outlets’ coverage of business?

LAURIA: So you’re the one reading my tweets. I won’t go into specific examples, but there is no doubt that in the year since we’ve launched we’ve quickly grown into a credible and authoritative section. I think when I first got hired people thought we were going to do business porn, like the “25 Sickest Corporate Jets” or something like that, and then they started to see how we are breaking news and writing really smart sophisticated stuff and started to realize they better take us seriously. While I like traffic and a big audience, I also love and am very proud of the fact that our work has been cited in TheNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Salon.com, New York, The New Yorker, New York Post, Canada’s National Post, Business Insider, CNBC, to name just a few. That, to me, proves how we are standing out in a very crowded field.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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