Darlings of New Journalism Shutter Doors
BuzzFeed News and Vice, each a hallmark of a new breed of journalism, simply cost too much to produce with too few ad dollars to
support them. BuzzFeed News won two Pulitzers for its reporting and did a great job covering politics and technology. They published the Steele dossier, which contained allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. While the news
division will be shuttered, BuzzFeed will live on for the moment.
Vice embraced gonzo-style journalism, producing first-person looks at everything from women’s rights to the alt-right, winning a few Peabody Awards. Vice filed for bankruptcy, but it’s looking like they might find a $40 million dollar way out.
We’ll miss them both, and fingers crossed that next-gen journalism will not rely solely on Twitter and generative AI for its news.
Re-envisioning Event Tech
I wrote about this last week, but Miguel Neves of Skift Meetings gives an excellent second-day analysis of the neurosis besetting event tech companies as they recreate themselves in a post pandemic era.
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Thinking Ahead — Our Calendars, Your Budgets; Looking for Products, Storytellers, and Creators
It’s an absolute given that event tech folks, Web 3 companies, and metaverse makers need to seek out new audiences and new connections. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Ragan Communications to produce a special area of Comms Week (Nov 6-10 in Austin) devoted to showcasing new technologies to comms professionals. You won’t find an audience more eager to incorporate more ways to meet and communicate than comms professionals. We’re offering special discounts to VEG members. Email Gigi@gvirtualeventsgroup.org for more details.
For CES (January 9-12 in Las Vegas) we’re helping produce conference sessions on retail, lifestyle, and fintech. If you’ve got a story to tell, you might belong on the CES stage. For more info write to Gigi@virtualeventsgroup.org.
We’re also helping with the 2nd annual Silicon Valley Video Summit (Jan 24th, 2024) at the Computer Science Museum in San Jose. Because we know that every company is now in the video business, we’re expanding the landscape to include
video-forward corporations that are killing it (Intel Corp, Dreamforce, Cannes, Sundance, and others). If you’ve got a corporate video story to tell, we're all ears; we’ve got your speaker cards ready. For more info write to Gigi@virtualeventsgroup.org. |