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A steep decline in advertising is forcing a historic shakeup in digital news and social media, and leading some to imagine navigating the internet without the likes of Google or Facebook.
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The media bet its future on Facebook. Did it learn from that mistake?
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A conversation with BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti and Gawker’s Nick Denton about why the 2010s digital media boom went bust, plus Ben Smith, whose new book chronicles their rise and fall.
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Homepage traffic, blogging, niche email newsletters. They were some of the foundational concepts of digital media in the early 2000s. And as the digital news media business turns again, they’re increasingly the ones media organizations are turning to.
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The most-saved BuzzFeed News stories of all time, including a classic essay on burnout and explorations of how the internet broke our brains.