Jonah Peretti lays off 47 HuffPost staffers just weeks after BuzzFeed acquired the company

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“‘The initial reaction is I can’t believe what little chance we were given to show what we can do to help this company,’ the staffer said.” —SS

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Scire, Sarah. "Jonah Peretti lays off 47 HuffPost staffers just weeks after BuzzFeed acquired the company." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Mar. 2021. Web. 26 Jul. 2024.

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Scire, S. (2021, Mar. 10). Jonah Peretti lays off 47 HuffPost staffers just weeks after BuzzFeed acquired the company. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/jonah-peretti-lays-off-47-huffpost-staffers-just-weeks-after-buzzfeed-acquired-the-company/

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Scire, Sarah. "Jonah Peretti lays off 47 HuffPost staffers just weeks after BuzzFeed acquired the company." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 10, 2021. Accessed July 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/jonah-peretti-lays-off-47-huffpost-staffers-just-weeks-after-buzzfeed-acquired-the-company/.

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