Article in The Guardian by Jane Martinson, 5/19/23
Headline: “Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?”
“While Vice and BuzzFeed were trying and failing to develop their own business plans, legacy media companies had to develop new ways to make money as circulation and advertising revenues declined. Faced with increasingly loud voices online, for some that meant a move towards more partisan media. Or, “news for angry old people”, as Roman Roy in Succession describes ATN . . .
“If that’s all that is left after the money and tech men have finished experimenting with news online, then, young and old, we should all be angry.”
Bye bye Vice and Buzzfeed?