BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations

I&#x27;d gladly support BuzzFeed News. Just today they broke this huge story [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;christinekenneally&#x2F;orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;christinekenneally&#x2F;orph...</a>

Even the dedicated news section has headline now that reads: &quot;x has a lot of people shook on twitter.&quot;<p>Won&#x27;t pretend to understand what kind of language appeals to 18-20 year olds, but is that demographic valuable enough to have such garbage articles&#x2F;headlines interspersed with actual journalism? Such an enigma to me.<p>Seems unlikely that the demographic they&#x27;re catering to at the expense of everyone else would chip in with donations.

&gt; The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper, has raised $130 million from reader contributions since April 2016.<p>That&#x27;s actually a significant portion of its revenue (~$275 million last fiscal). Quite interesting.

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I always had mixed feeling about buzzfeed, the same mixed feelings I have with Google. It&#x27;s like there are 2 separate entites :<p>1) the Buzzfeed that is amazing and produce some incredible stories<p>2) The clickbait attention-whore buzzfeed that makes me lose faith in humanity and in the internet in general.<p>For those wondering about Google :<p>1) The Google we all loved at first, creating incredible products that impact people lives for the best<p>2) The creepy Google that tracks everything that I do all the time and makes me angry that I cannot find any alerternative that could be as good.<p>I would have a really hard time donating to buzzfeed as long as it is not clear for me what buzzfeed really is (Amazing stories creation or click bait article).<p>Edit : typo and layout

I actually think the offer to read this story on your Kindle is quite clever...if they offered that to me in a pop-up before serving me a barrage of ads, I might even prefer it.<p>And it&#x27;s an honest revenue model! <i>And it&#x27;s 86 pages</i>, for crying out loud...they should charge way more than $0.99.<p>Push that, instead of donations. IMO.

This is stupid. If you&#x27;re a corporation, you don&#x27;t get donations. You charge customers for a service. If you want donations, start a non-profit.<p>As a New Yorker, I&#x27;d gladly pay a yearly fee to go to BuzzFeed-sponsored events. But if I&#x27;m going to donate to support journalism, there are lots of solid competitors for my money.

Just as soon as they chip in with some real journalists

I find it incredibly fascinating that a site like Buzzfeed can do amazing journalism, but the majority of mainstream media falls grossly short but expects the same respect.