By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/26/12 2:31pm

Bad Dates

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Jonah Peretti Stood Up Nick Denton Last Night

Last night, Gawker’s Nick Denton was forced to entertain a group of about 30 reporters and editors who are in town for a Wall Street Journal organized digital training program all by himself because his expected co-star, Buzzfeed co-founder Jonah Peretti, was a no-show. On Twitter, Mr. Peretti had a rather interesting explanation for  standing up Mr. Denton.

“I didn’t feel like talking to @nicknotned tonight, you really got to be in the mood for that guy,” Mr. Peretti wrote last night.

When we emailed Mr. Peretti to inquire about the event this afternoon, he attributed his absence to a scheduling glitch rather than any distaste for Mr. Denton. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 6/13/12 12:30pm

Notable Quotables

Being in the ‘Belly of the Beast’ at Huffington Post ‘Drained’ Jonah Peretti

In his long overdue Atlantic media diet, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti called out the previous contributors to the column, the ones who claim to read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times in print, every day, and say they are so embarrassed by how the Economists they never got around to reading pile up around the apartment.

He wrote:

“The main way I discover information is my Twitter feed and my Facebook news feed. One of the interesting things about this Media Diet column is if people were honest, I think they would give more credit to Facebook and Twitter, which can mean totally different things depending on who you are. But social is the new starting point.” Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 5/21/12 9:30am

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As Stock Disappoints, Facebook Dominates Future of Media Panel

Wall Street traders sweating Facebook’s flaccid opening should have stopped by I Want Media’s fifth annual Future of Media panel Friday afternoon. In a television studio above Cooper Square, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and other media futurists paid lofty and often metaphorical tribute to the social media site’s publishing power. Read More

By Foster Kamer 4/12/12 3:20pm

THE NEW MEDIA ECONOMY

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Cafe au Payday: Buzzfeed Editor Spends $1100 a Year on Lattes

Buzzfeed: It’s all the buzz! They have the L. Ron Hubbard of meme-making, Jonah Peretti, at the helm. With him are high-profile poaches from Politico, the Village Voice, Business Insider, Gawker Media and more! And with them are $15.5M shekels from a recent cash infusion to turn every scrap of knowledge and abstraction and news available to the human race into some kind of .GIF image to construct the final link between the complexities of transliterated grunts into hieroglyphs.

So, what are Buzzfeed’s newly minted hundred-thousandaires doing with all that cash? Making it rain…lattes. Read More

By Foster Kamer 2/29/12 6:54pm

MEMES OF MEMES

Jonah Peretti.

Newest Single-Serving Tumblr: ‘Has Buzzfeed Hired Anyone New Today?’

Jonah Peretti’s meme-spewing startup recently launched an original content initiative, which is already successful if not for the way in which they can simply memes by hiring people. With sharpened poaching-spears in hand, Peretti has taken from Politico (with Subject #1: Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith), Gawker, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, New York, and surely a bunch of others that are difficult to keep track of. Until now! Read More