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Ben Smith on the Turmoil at Buzzfeed, Fox News and Everything In Between
On with Kara Swisher
The Importance of Focusing on News
BuzzFeed was among the companies that took checks from Facebook, but really built its business on an organic relationship with Facebook. Jonah told the newsroom recently that they had to turn a profit. It could be as little as a dollar, but they shouldn't expect to get subsidized by the larger company. "It's very hard to focus on selling the harder thing to sell," he says.
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