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Ocean's 2

Ink Stained Wretches

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BuzzFeed Encourages Reporters to Write More Stories in Attempt to Turn Profit

BuzzFeed says it published 404 articles in February, a 24% decrease from the year earlier period. It reduced the size of its roughly 100% newsroom by about 40%. So they cut the newsroom staff by 40 people and the story production is only down 24%. That's necessarily what happens when you cut your staff by 40% and then tell them that they have to write more.

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