Dec 10 What Does Membership Mean for BuzzFeed News — at a Company That’s Already Raised Nearly $500 Million in Venture Capital?

It was a year ago that Jonah Peretti re-gridded BuzzFeed’s strategy, with BuzzFeed News set aside in its own column that would later become its own distinct website.

It would never go behind a paywall, unlike other news organizations “because your ability to access news is important every day”…

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Dec 9 The "Yellow Jackets" Riots In France Are What Happens When Facebook Gets Involved With Local News

Damien Willis

On The Media

What’s happening right now in France isn’t happening in a vacuum. The Yellow Jackets movement — named for the protesters’ brightly colored safety vests — is a beast born almost entirely from Facebook.

Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Damien Willis is a newspaper reporter and communications professional. He generally writes about the ways we pass our time in the 21st century.