{"id":32435,"date":"2019-02-09T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32435"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:22:40","slug":"the-buzzfeed-bubble-bursts-mass-layoffs-across-digital-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32435","title":{"rendered":"The BuzzFeed bubble bursts: Mass layoffs across digital media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On The Listening Post<\/em> this week: Heralded as the future of the media, digital news outlets suffer a round of mass layoffs. Plus, the journalistic life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.<\/p>\n

BuzzFeed and the digital media bubble<\/h2>\n

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the digital news industry. More than 1,000 workers, many of them reporters, have lost their jobs at companies like BuzzFeed, Huff Post and Vice.<\/p>\n

Just five years ago, these digital news outlets were seen as the future of journalism<\/a>. But the layoffs suggest that the business model the companies all rely on, click-based advertising revenue, doesn’t add up to a profitable bottom line.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the problematic reliance on Facebook<\/a> and Google<\/a> to distribute digital news content.<\/p>\n

The two tech giants are eating up the bulk of digital ad revenues – leaving the BuzzFeeds of the world in roughly the same place as newspapers and other legacy news organisations before them – trying to find new models to make their businesses work.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keach Hagey – media and tech reporter, Wall Street Journal
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen – Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Siva Vaidhyanathan – University of Virginia and author of Anti-Social Media
Mathew Ingram – Columbia Journalism Review<\/p>\n

On our radar<\/h2>\n

Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Marcela Pizarro about the latest from Israel<\/a> ahead of the elections in April: Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> gets his own TV channel.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a journalist untold<\/h2>\n

We think of Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/a> as a fiction writer – we think of magical realism. But he saw himself first and foremost as a journalist.<\/p>\n

In fact, Garcia Marquez was thrown out of Colombia<\/a> for his outspokenness – because ultimately, his form of journalism was unapologetically political – what today we might call advocacy journalism.<\/p>\n

The Listening Post<\/em>‘s Marcela Pizarro explores how Latin American literature meets journalism in the work, and legacy of, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juanita Leon – director, La Silla Vacia
Jaime Abello – director, New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation
Maria Jimena Duzan – journalist, Semana<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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