BuzzFeed expands again

LINK: www.buzzfeed.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | March 21, 2012

Another day, another BuzzFeed vertical. Two, actually: a new sports site, originally named “Sports,” and a site for women called Shift.

They join the Ben Smith-powered politics vertical and a tech site at the social-oriented aggregator.

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Laura Hazard Owen

Hey, local news publishers: Give the people a calendar

“It shouldn’t be that difficult to keep an updated list of when and where and what the meetings are.”

Joshua Benton

Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones

A massive study of Upworthy headlines — remember Upworthy? — shows how a few emotionally charged words can mean the difference between viral and ignored.

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Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

One Redditor: “I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app.”