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An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication ) is the online version of a newspaper , either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical .

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98-751: BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011. It ceased posting new hard news content in May 2023. It published a number of high-profile scoops , including the Steele dossier , for which it was strongly criticized, and the FinCEN Files . It won the George Polk Award , The Sidney Award , the National Magazine Award , the National Press Foundation award, and

196-531: A 2012 partnership with the BBC on match-fixing in professional tennis, and inequities in the U.S. H-2 guest worker program , reporting of which won a National Magazine Award . A 2017 study in the journal Journalism , which compared news articles by BuzzFeed and The New York Times , found that BuzzFeed News largely followed established rules of journalism. Both publications predominantly used inverted pyramid news format, and journalists' opinions were absent from

294-532: A digital one as well. There are some newspapers which are predominantly online, but also provide limited hard copy publishing An example is annarbor.com, which replaced the Ann Arbor News in the summer of 2009. It is primarily an online newspaper, but publishes a hard copy twice a week. Other trends indicate that this business model is being adopted by many newspapers with the growth of digital media. The turn to hybrid publishing models has been commensurate with

392-477: A discussion about how the intention of a comment or action can have a damaging impact. For example, phrases such as "I know you meant that joke to be funny, but that stereotype really hurt me" can educate a person on the difference between what was intended and how it is harmful to a person of color. Anti-racist microintervention strategies give the tools for people of color, white allies, and bystanders to combat against microaggressions and acts of discrimination. It

490-480: A factor in the decision. BuzzFeed, Inc. refocused news efforts into HuffPost , also indicating that some employees previously hired at BuzzFeed News may be rehired either there or at BuzzFeed.com. BuzzFeed News states in its editorial guide that "we firmly believe that for a number of issues, including civil rights, women's rights, anti-racism , and LGBT equality , there are not two sides" but also says that "when it comes to activism, BuzzFeed editorial must follow

588-479: A free twelve-part weekly podcast series by Ricky Gervais . Another UK daily to go online is The Daily Telegraph . In Australia , most major newspapers offer an online version, with or without a paywalled subscription option. In Algeria , the number of daily visitors of news websites and online editions of newspapers surpasses the number of daily readers of print newspapers since the end of 2016. An online-only paper has no print-media connections. An example

686-419: A multitude of points.’ German ethnographer Adolf Bastian promoted the idea known as "psychic unity of mankind", the belief in a universal mental framework present in all humans regardless of race. Rudolf Virchow , an early biological anthropologist criticized Ernst Haeckel 's classification of humanity into "higher and lower races". The two authors influenced American anthropologist Franz Boas who promoted

784-532: A number of anti-racist organizations such as Love Music Hate Racism , Stand Up to Racism, Anti-Nazi League and Unite Against Fascism . Friedrich Tiedemann was one of the first people to scientifically contest racism. In 1836, using craniometric and brain measurements (taken by him from Europeans and black people from different parts of the world), he refuted the belief of many contemporary naturalists and anatomists that black people have smaller brains and are thus intellectually inferior to white people, saying it

882-495: A party in 1986, when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. Subsequently, numerous other men alleged that Spacey had sexually harassed or assaulted them. As a result, Netflix indefinitely suspended production of Spacey's TV series House of Cards , and opted to not release his film Gore on their service, although it was already in post-production at the time. Spacey was replaced with Christopher Plummer in Ridley Scott 's film All

980-516: A section of the BuzzFeed site to its own domain, BuzzFeedNews.com, with a Trending News Bar and programmatic advertisements. In January 2019, it laid off 15% of its staff, putting an end to its national news desk. In May 2020, Smith left BuzzFeed News to become a media columnist for The New York Times . Schoofs succeeded him as editor-in-chief. BuzzFeed announced that it would be closing its Australia and United Kingdom news operations. In March 2022,

1078-486: A series of articles detailing how international investors were using the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) to "undermine domestic regulations and gut environmental laws at the expense of poorer nations". Beginning with his article "The Court That Rules the World" and continuing for an eight-article series , Hamby detailed alleged abuses of power of the court. The Pulitzer Prize nomination cited this as bringing attention to

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1176-646: A systemic level. As a philosophy, it can be engaged in by the acknowledgment of personal privileges, confronting acts as well as systems of racial discrimination and/or working to change personal racial biases. Major contemporary anti-racism efforts include the Black Lives Matter movement and workplace anti-racism. European racism was spread to the Americas by the Europeans , but establishment views were questioned when they were applied to indigenous peoples . After

1274-421: A tool used to act against racial discrimination. Microintervention strategies aim to provide the tools needed to confront and educate racial oppressors. Specific tactics include: revealing the hidden biases or agendas behind acts of discrimination, interrupting and challenging oppressive language, educating offenders, and connecting with other allies and community members to act against discrimination. The theory

1372-553: A trade unionist and, like most others in the working class, was very strongly opposed to Asian immigration to Australia. (The exclusion of Asian immigration was a popular cause with unions in Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand in the early 20th century.) The Chinese delegation, which was otherwise at daggers drawn with the Japanese over the question of the former German colony of Qingdao and

1470-456: A treaty before that did not mention God, which caused Cecil to remark perhaps this time, they would all just have to a take a chance of avoiding the wrath of the Almighty by not mentioning Him. Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes clarified his opposition and announced at a meeting that "ninety-five out of one hundred Australians rejected the very idea of equality. Hughes had entered politics as

1568-566: A week. The website was the first online-only newspaper in Atlantic Canada and has been behind a paywall since starting in 2001. Even print media is turning to online-only publication. As of 2009, the decrease of the traditional business model of print newspapers has led to various attempts to establish local, regional or national online-only newspapers - publications that do original reporting, rather than just commentary or summaries of reporting from other publications. An early major example in

1666-402: Is claimed that white racial justice activists can cause activism burnout for activists of color. According to Gorski and Erakat (2019), of the 22 racial justice activists in the sample, 82% of the participants identified behaviors and attitudes of the white racial justice activists as a major source of the burnout that they feel. The same study also found that 72.2% of the participants said that

1764-409: Is commonly associated with the topic of white genocide , a white nationalist conspiracy theory which states that mass immigration , integration , miscegenation , low fertility rates and abortion are being promoted in predominantly white countries in order to deliberately turn them minority-white and hence cause white people to become extinct through forced assimilation . The phrase

1862-434: Is considered by Misplaced Pages editors to be a reliable source. Editors have distinguished BuzzFeed News from BuzzFeed, which they note has inconsistent editorial quality. News website Going online created more opportunities for newspapers, such as competing with broadcast journalism in presenting breaking news in a more timely manner. The credibility and strong brand recognition of well established newspapers, and

1960-579: Is in line with the Pew Research Center's finding in a survey of U.S. Americans that the Internet is a leading source of news for people younger than 50. Not all articles published online receive the same amount of attention; there are factors that determine their popularity. The number of times an article gets shared on social media is relevant for activists, politicians, authors, online-publishers and advertisers. They thus have an interest in knowing

2058-425: Is not an online news publication. News reporters are being taught to shoot video and to write in the succinct manner necessary for Internet news pages. Some newspapers have attempted to integrate the Internet into every aspect of their operations, e.g., the writing of stories for both print and online, and classified advertisements appearing in both media, while other newspaper websites may be quite different from

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2156-453: Is that these microinterventions allow the oppressor to see the impact of their words, and provide a space for an educational dialogue about how their actions can oppress people marginalized groups. Microaggressions can be conscious acts where the perpetrator is aware of the offense they are causing, or hidden and metacommunicated without the perpetrator's awareness. Regardless of whether microaggressions are conscious or unconscious behaviors,

2254-646: Is the UK Southport Reporter , introduced in 2000—a weekly regional newspaper that is not produced or run in any format than 'soft-copy' on the Internet by its publishers, PCBT Photography. Another early example is "Bangla2000", also introduced in 2000, which was uploaded twice daily from Bangladesh and Edited by Tukun Mahmud Nurul Momen. Unlike the UK Southport Reporter, it was not a regional newspaper. Bangla2000.com ran international, economic, and sports news as well, simultaneously. The largest library of

2352-651: The American Revolution , a small group of Quakers , including John Woolman and Anthony Benezet , persuaded many fellow Quakers to emancipate their slaves, divest from the Atlantic slave trade and create unified Quaker policies against slavery. This afforded the religious denomination a measure of moral authority to help begin the American abolitionist movement. Woolman died of smallpox in England in 1775, shortly after crossing

2450-940: The Civil Rights Movement , Jim Crow laws were repealed in the South and blacks finally re-won the right to vote in Southern states. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential force, and his " I Have a Dream " speech is a condensation of his egalitarian ideology. Mass mobilization around the Black Lives Matter movement have sparked a renewed interest in anti-racism in the U.S. Mass movement organizing has also been accompanied by academic efforts to foreground research regarding anti-racism in politics, criminal justice reform , inclusion in higher education, and workplace anti-racism. Anti-racism has taken various forms such as consciousness-raising activities aimed at educating people about

2548-735: The First Universal Races Congress met in London, at which distinguished speakers from many countries for four days discussed race problems and ways to improve interracial relations. Karl Marx was supportive of the Union during the American Civil War and advocated more radical abolitionist measures with his Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Lincoln would in return commend

2646-673: The International Working Men's Association for their support and declared that the defeat of the South would be a victory for all of humanity. The Russian Revolution was perceived as a rupture with imperialism for various civil rights and decolonization struggles and providing a space for oppressed groups across the world. This was given further credence with the Soviet Union supporting many anti-colonial third world movements with financial funds against European colonial powers. In his work, The Socialist Revolution and

2744-496: The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting . On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced that BuzzFeed News would be gradually shut down as part of company-wide layoffs. BuzzFeed, Inc. refocused its news efforts on HuffPost , which the company had acquired in 2020. BuzzFeed News discontinued adding new content on May 5, 2023. As of November 2024 there continue to be new celebrity gossip articles being posted to

2842-521: The TPP . The former was stripped of its ISDS provisions and the latter was rejected by the United States. On January 10, 2017, CNN reported on the existence of classified documents that claimed Russia had compromising personal and financial information about President-elect Donald Trump . Trump and President Barack Obama had both been briefed on the content of the dossier the previous week. CNN did not publish

2940-522: The White Australia policy . Opposition to racism revived in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, anthropologists such as Franz Boas , Ruth Benedict , Margaret Mead , and Ashley Montagu argued for the equality of humans across races and cultures. Eleanor Roosevelt was a very visible advocate for minority rights during this period. Anti-capitalist organizations like the Industrial Workers of

3038-414: The nadir of American race relations . The period from about 1890 to 1920 saw the re-establishment of Jim Crow laws . President Woodrow Wilson , who regarded Reconstruction as a disaster, segregated the federal government. The Ku Klux Klan grew to its greatest peak of popularity and strength; the success of D. W. Griffith 's The Birth of a Nation played a major part in this member increase. In 1911

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3136-452: The 1930s, the first viable black trade unions in Transvaal , South Africa were established by Trotskyists . Modern left-wing commentators have argued that capitalism promotes racism alongside culture wars over issues such as immigration and representation of ethnic minorities whilst refusing to address economic inequalities . Socialist groups have also been closely aligned with

3234-566: The 2016 and 2018 Online Journalism Awards . BuzzFeed News was a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting . In 2021, BuzzFeed News won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for its coverage of the Xinjiang internment camps as a part of China's campaign against the Muslim Uyghurs . BuzzFeed News was a member of the White House press corps . BuzzFeed News

3332-794: The Atlantic to spread his anti-slavery message to the Quakers of the British Isles . During and after the American Revolution, Quaker ministrations and preachings against slavery began to spread beyond their denomination. In 1783, 300 Quakers, chiefly from London , presented the British Parliament with a petition against the Britain's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1785, English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson , studying at Cambridge , and in

3430-656: The Crown but the Papacy at the Valladolid Controversy whether the Indigenous were truly men who deserved baptism, Pope Paul III in the papal bull Veritas Ipsa or Sublimis Deus (1537) confirmed that the Indigenous and other races are fully rational human beings who have rights to freedom and private property, even if they are heathen. Afterward, their Christian conversion effort gained momentum along social rights, while leaving

3528-411: The Internet in the 1990s. By the late 1990s, hundreds of U.S. newspapers were publishing online versions, but did not yet offer much interactivity. One example is Britain's Weekend City Press Review , which provided a weekly news summary online beginning in 1995. Today, online news has become a huge part of society which leads people to argue whether or not it is good for society. Austra Taylor, author of

3626-429: The Japanese proposal was a very controversial one and he suggested that perhaps the matter was so controversial that it should not be discussed at all. Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos also suggested that a clause banning religious discrimination should also be removed since that was also a very controversial matter. That led to objections from a Portuguese diplomat, who stated that his country had never signed

3724-512: The Money in the World , which was six weeks from release. On January 17, 2019, BuzzFeed News published an article in which the authors accused Trump of ordering his personal attorney, Michael Cohen , to lie to Congress about the timing of a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. The article states that Trump was given updates by Cohen at least ten times and cites texts, messages, and emails as sources. In

3822-609: The President directed or aided Cohen's false testimony." BuzzFeed News issued an update to their original story stating, "The Mueller Report found that Trump did not direct Michael Cohen to lie." Ben Smith, then-editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News , responded by releasing notes from the FBI interview with Cohen, which said "Cohen told OSC (Mueller's office) he was asked to lie by DJT/DJT Jr., lawyers." Smith said, "Our sources – federal law enforcement officials – interpreted

3920-619: The Quakers, could lawfully sit in Parliament. The twelve founding members included nine Quakers and three pioneering Anglicans: Granville Sharp , Thomas Clarkson , and William Wilberforce – all evangelical Christians. Later successes in opposing racism were won by the abolitionist movement in England and in the United States . Though many Abolitionists did not regard blacks or mulattos as equal to whites, they did, in general, believe in freedom and often even equality of treatment for all people . A few, like John Brown , went further. Brown

4018-508: The Rights of Nation to Self-Determinism , Vladimir Lenin wrote that socialism would enforce the complete equality of all nations and "give effect to the right of oppressed nations to self-determination ". Lenin would make anti-imperialism a tenet of Marxist ideology and coordinate revolutions through the Comintern . Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky had advocated for national self-determination for

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4116-616: The Russian chief of the technology company XBT, and a figure named in the dossier, sued BuzzFeed News for defamation . The suit centered on the allegations from the dossier that XBT had been "using botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct 'altering operations' against the Democratic Party leadership". In response, BuzzFeed redacted the name of the company and official in its published dossier. In May 2017, Mikhail Fridman , Petr Aven , and German Khan –

4214-552: The Spanish authorities and administrators of Hispaniola for their "cruelty and tyranny" in dealing with the American natives and those forced to labor as slaves. King Ferdinand enacted the Laws of Burgos and Valladolid in response. Enforcement was lax, and the New Laws of 1542 have to be made to take a stronger line. Because some people like Fray Bartolomé de las Casas questioned not only

4312-602: The U.S. is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , which stopped publishing after 149 years in March 2009 and went online only. In Scotland, in 2010, Caledonian Mercury became Scotland's first online-only newspaper, with the same aims as Southport Reporter in the UK, with The Yorkshire Times the following suit and becoming Yorkshire's first online-only paper in 2011. The Independent ceased print publications in 2016, becoming

4410-519: The U.S. was using the war as an excuse to expand slavery into new territories. Thoreau's response was chronicled in his famous essay " Civil Disobedience ", which in turn helped ignite Mahatma Gandhi 's successful leadership of the Indian independence movement . Gandhi's example in turn inspired the American civil rights movement. As James Loewen writes in Lies My Teacher Told Me : "Throughout

4508-511: The UK Data Protection Act applies to online newspapers and news pages. Up to 2014, the PCC ruled in the UK, but there was no clear distinction between authentic online newspapers and forums or blogs. In 2007, a ruling was passed to formally regulate UK-based online newspapers, news audio, and news video websites covering the responsibilities expected of them and to clear up what is, and what

4606-705: The United States, and the United Kingdom. All samples within each country were nationally representative. Half of the sample reportedly paid for a print newspaper in the past 7 days, and only one-twentieth of the sample paid for online news in the past 7 days. That only 5% of the sample had recently paid for online newspaper access is likely because most people access news that is free. People with portable devices, like tablets or smartphones, were significantly more likely to subscribe to digital news content. Additionally, people aged between 25 and 34 are more willing to pay for digital news than older people across all countries. This

4704-605: The World , which gained popularity during 1905–1926, were explicitly egalitarian. In the 1940s Springfield, Massachusetts , invoked The Springfield Plan to include all persons in the community. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and continuing into the 1960s, many African-American writers argued forcefully against racism. The struggles against racial segregation in the United States and South African apartheid including Sharpeville massacre saw increased articulation of ideas opposed to racism of all kinds. During

4802-563: The black population in South Africa . In response to the programmatic document of the South African Left Opposition, he wrote in 1935: "We must accept decisively and without any reservation the complete and unconditional right of the blacks to independence. Only on the basis of a mutual struggle against the domination of the white exploiters can the solidarity of black and white toilers be cultivated and strengthened". Through

4900-518: The buzzfeednews.com domain. BuzzFeed News began as a division of BuzzFeed in December 2011 with the appointment of Ben Smith from Politico as editor-in-chief. In 2013, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Schoofs of ProPublica was hired as head of investigative reporting. By 2016, BuzzFeed News had 20 investigative journalists. The British division of BuzzFeed News was headed by Janine Gibson , formerly of The Guardian . Notable coverage included

4998-553: The category of Public Interest. Other awards won by BuzzFeed News journalists include 2014 and 2016 National Press Foundation awards, 2015 Sidney Award , 2017 British Journalism Award, and 2018 George Polk Award . BuzzFeed News staff won the 2021 award for the Pulitzer Prizes in International Reporting ; in addition, BuzzFeed News staff were finalists for this award in 2017, 2018, and 2021. BuzzFeed News also won

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5096-422: The cause of their burnout was attributed to the white activists having unevolved or racist views. 44.4% of the activists also said that their burnout was due to white activists invalidating their perspectives as activists of color. 50% of the participants said that their burnout was caused by white activists not willing to "step up" to achieve the goals of the movement. 44.4% of participants said that their burnout

5194-732: The clause in the Covenant of the League of Nations . The first draft was presented to the League of Nations Commission by Makino Nobuaki on 13 February as an amendment to Article 21: The equality of nations being a basic principle of the League of Nations, the High Contracting Parties agree to accord, as soon as possible, to all alien nationals of States Members of the League equal and just treatment in every respect, making no distinction, either in law or in fact, on account of their race or nationality. After Makino's speech, Lord Cecil stated that

5292-404: The close relationships they have with advertisers, are also seen by many in the newspaper industry as strengthening their chances of survival. The movement away from the printing process can also help decrease costs. Online newspapers, like printed newspapers, have legal restrictions regarding libel, privacy, and copyright, also apply to online publications in most countries as in the UK. Also,

5390-401: The company announced that it was in the process of cutting staff positions in an attempt to position itself for profitability. Editor-in-chief Mark Schoofs, deputy editor-in-chief Tom Namako, and executive editor of investigations Ariel Kaminer announced their departures. Staff buyout offers were made to reporters on the investigations, science, politics and inequality desks. Approximately half of

5488-439: The company's 100 reporters were offered buyout deals. On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed announced it would shut down BuzzFeed News as part of a 15% workforce cut. Approximately 180 jobs were at that time reported to have been expected to be cut, and the shutdown was at that time reported to be expected to be gradual. According to Digiday , changes to news-related policies of social media platforms such as Facebook were indicated as

5586-571: The corresponding printed newspaper. An early example of an "online-only" newspaper or magazine was (PLATO) News Report , an online newspaper created by Bruce Parrello in 1974 on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois. The first newspaper to go online was The Columbus Dispatch on July 1, 1980. Beginning in 1987, the Brazilian newspaper Jornaldodia ran on the state-owned Embratel network , moving to

5684-671: The course of writing an essay in Latin ( Anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare (Is it lawful to enslave the unconsenting?), read the works of Benezet, and began a lifelong effort to abolish the British slave trade. In 1787, British abolitionists formed the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , a small nondenominational group that could lobby more successfully by incorporating Anglicans, who, unlike

5782-664: The court, and the articles were cited in a question to the European Parliament . In the articles, Hamby dives into cases such as Sajwani v. Egypt allowed investors who made deals with corrupt regimes to keep those deals after the fall of the regime. He also exposed how the threat of the court is used to prevent fines and expensive environmental cleanups, such as the leak of lead into the groundwater in Sitio del Niño, El Salvador . The ISDS provisions were controversially included in NAFTA and

5880-594: The day following the release of the report, many prominent Democrats called for impeachment if the accusations were true, including former attorney general Eric Holder . The office of Robert Mueller disputed the report on January 19, calling it "not accurate". With the release of the Mueller report in April 2019, the report found that while there was evidence that Trump was aware that Cohen had provided false testimony to Congress, "the evidence available to us does not establish that

5978-475: The day of publication is less important when it comes to predicting the popularity of the article. Anti-racism Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice , systemic racism , and the oppression of specific racial groups . Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and deliberate actions which are intended to create equal opportunities for all people on both an individual and

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6076-686: The discovery of the New World , many of the members of the clergy who were sent to the New World who were educated in the new humane values of the Renaissance , still new in Europe and not ratified by the Vatican, began to criticize Spain's as well as their own Church's treatment and views of indigenous peoples and slaves. In December 1511, Antonio de Montesinos , a Dominican friar, was the first European to rebuke openly

6174-474: The dossier, or any specific details of the dossier, as they could not be verified. Later the same day, BuzzFeed News published a 35-page dossier nearly in-full. BuzzFeed News said that the dossier was unverified and "includes some clear errors". The dossier had been read widely by political and media figures in Washington. It previously had been sent to multiple journalists who had declined to publish it as unsubstantiated. The next day, Trump responded, calling

6272-437: The end of the century and over the next, as the Portuguese and Spanish Empires waned. It would take another century, with the influence of the French Empire at its height, and its consequent Enlightenment developed at the highest circles of its Court, to return these previously inconclusive issues to the forefront of the political discourse championed by many intellectual men since Rousseau . These issues gradually permeated to

6370-414: The evidence Cohen presented as meaning that the president 'directed' Cohen to lie. We now know that Mueller did not." In September 2020, Buzzfeed News , alongside the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , released the FinCEN files, a collection of 2,657 documents leaked from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). BuzzFeed News received a 2016 National Magazine Award in

6468-584: The first British national newspaper to move to an online only format. In the US, technology news websites such as CNET , TechCrunch , and ZDNet started as web publications and enjoy comparable readership to the conventional newspapers. Also, with the ever-rising popularity of online media, veteran publications like the U.S. News & World Report are abandoning print and going online-only. In October 2020, 11 online only news portals formed DIGIPUB News India foundation to encourage an ecosystem of Digital Only press. In 2015, 65% of people reported that print

6566-419: The first anti-racist intervention is to name the ways it is harmful for a person of color. Calling out an act of discrimination can be empowering because it provides language for people of color to bring awareness to their lived experiences and justifies internal feelings of discrimination. Anti-racist strategies also include confronting the racial microaggression by outwardly challenging and disagreeing against

6664-425: The general BuzzFeed site), 65 were positive, 34 were neutral, and one was critical. The report described BuzzFeed's coverage of Obama "creepy" and "almost uniformly uncritical and often sycophantic". In June 2020, BuzzFeed News senior reporter Ryan Broderick was fired after it was revealed he had "plagiarized or misattributed information in at least 11 of his articles." On August 28, 2016, Chris Hamby published

6762-436: The idea of "races" is based on racism rather than any scientific factuality. After the end of seclusion in the 1850s, Japan signed unequal treaties , the so-called Ansei Treaties , but soon came to demand equal status with the Western powers. Correcting that inequality became the most urgent international issue of the Meiji government. In that context, the Japanese delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference proposed

6860-445: The idea of human " races " and distances itself from the racial theories of Ernst Haeckel and other 20th century scientists. It claims that genetic variation between human populations is smaller than within them, demonstrating that the biological concept of "races" is invalid. The statement highlights that there are no specific genes or genetic markers that match with conventional racial categorizations . It also indicates that

6958-415: The idea that differences in behavior between human populations are purely cultural rather than determined by biological differences. Later anthropologists like Marcel Mauss , Bronisław Malinowski , Pierre Clastres , and Claude Lévi-Strauss continued to focus on culture and reject racial models of differences in human behavior. The Jena Declaration , published by the German Zoological Society , rejects

7056-466: The increasing importance of social media platforms to disseminate news, especially amongst 18-24 demographic. In 2013, the Reuters Institute commissioned a cross-country survey on news consumption, and gathered data related to online newspaper use that emphasizes the lack of use of paid online newspaper services. The countries surveyed were France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, Brazil,

7154-558: The lead of our editors and reporters who come out of a tradition of rigorous, neutral journalism that puts facts and news first." Some commentators have criticized BuzzFeed's editorial guide as internally inconsistent, arguing that BuzzFeed News cannot claims to be neutral while also endorsing positions on controversial political issues. The media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 BuzzFeed stories about Barack Obama in 2016 (most from BuzzFeed News , but also from

7252-531: The lower social levels, where they were a reality lived by men and women of different races from the European racial majority. In 1688, German immigrants to the Province of Pennsylvania issued a anti-slavery petition opposing slavery in the colony. After being set aside and forgotten, it was rediscovered by American abolitionists in 1844, misplaced around the 1940s, and once more rediscovered in March 2005. Prior to

7350-545: The majority of articles of both. Both BuzzFeed News and the Times predominantly covered government and politics, and predominantly used politicians, government, and law enforcement as sources. In contrast, BuzzFeed News devoted more articles to social issues such as protests and LGBT issues, more frequently quoted ordinary people, less frequently covered crime and terrorism, and had fewer articles focusing on negative aspects of an issue. On July 18, 2018, BuzzFeed News moved from

7448-404: The microaggression that harms a person of color. Microinterventions such as a verbal expression of "I don't want to hear that talk" and physical movements of disapproval are ways to confront microaggressions. Microinterventions are not used to attack others about their biases, but instead they are used to allow the space for an educational dialogue. Educating a perpetrator on their biases can open up

7546-407: The number of article shares. With the dataset being publicly available, a fair amount of data analysis has been conducted. Some can be found on the website "Kaggle" . One "classification analysis" . GitHub . 30 November 2020. used machine learning methods, namely, logistic regression , linear discriminant analysis , artificial neural networks and random forests to predict

7644-691: The number of shares, preferably even predicting it before the article is being published. With new methods of Natural Language Processing such as Latent Dirichlet allocation it is possible to gain insights into the core characteristics of an article. A team of Portuguese scientists retrieved data from the website Mashable and made the dataset publicly available. Said "dataset about online news popularity" . consists of 39,644 observations and 60 possible features, that have been collected over two years from 2013 to 2015. The features consist of variables describing words, links, digital media, time, keywords, insights from Natural Language Processing and

7742-428: The owners of Alfa Bank – filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed News for publishing the unverified dossier. It alleged financial ties and collusion between Putin , Trump, and the three bank owners. In January 2018, one year after the dossier became public, Trump's lawyer Michael D. Cohen , who was also named in the dossier, filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed News . The same day, Ben Smith again defended

7840-557: The popular book, The Peoples Platform, argues that online news does not provide the detail needed to fully understand what actually happened. It is more just a fast summary to inform people what happened, but does not give a solution or fixation to the problem. Very few newspapers in 2006 claimed to have made money from their websites, which were mostly free to all viewers. Declining profit margins and declining circulation in daily newspapers forced executives to contemplate new methods of obtaining revenue from websites, without charging for

7938-558: The proposal received a majority (11 out of 16) of votes, the proposal was still problematic for the segregationist US President Woodrow Wilson , who needed the votes of segregationist Southern Democrats to succeed in getting the votes needed for the US Senate to ratify the treaty. Strong opposition from the British Empire delegation gave him a pretext to reject the proposal. Hughes and Joseph Cook vigorously opposed it as it undermined

8036-767: The publication in a New York Times op-ed, calling it "undoubtedly real news". In February 2018, BuzzFeed News sued the Democratic National Committee to obtain their internal investigation documents regarding the hack of their server during the presidential campaign in order for the journal to better defend itself against Gubarev's lawsuit. In April 2018, Cohen dropped his defamation suit. An exposé by BuzzFeed News , published on October 5, 2017, documented how Breitbart News solicited story ideas and copy edits from white supremacists and neo-Nazis , with Milo Yiannopoulos acting as an intermediary. Yiannopoulos and other Breitbart employees developed and marketed

8134-428: The remaining 75%. Contrastingly, ad revenue for digital methods was 5% in 2006. Hybrid newspapers are predominantly focused on online content, but also produce a print form. Trends in online newspapers indicate publications may switch to digital methods, especially online newspapers in the future. The New York Times is an example of this model of the newspaper as it provides both a home delivery print subscription and

8232-657: The rest of the German concessions in Shandong Province , also said that it would support the clause. One contemporary Chinese diplomat said the Shandong question was far more important to his government than the clause. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George found himself in an awkward situation since Britain had signed an alliance with Japan in 1902, but he also wanted to hold the British Empire 's delegation together. Although

8330-563: The same status recognition unanswered for Africans of Black Race, and legal social racism prevailed towards the Indians or Asians. By then, the last schism of the Reformation had taken place in Europe in those few decades along political lines, and the different views on the value of human lives of different races were not corrected in the lands of Northern Europe, which would join the Colonial race at

8428-609: The subscription. This has been difficult. Newspapers with specialized audiences such as The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education successfully charge subscription fees. Most newspapers have an online edition, including The Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , Mid-Day , and The New York Times . Many European countries also have their own English-language online news, such as The Daily Slovak News ( Slovakia ), Helsinki Times ( Finland ) and The Moscow Times ( Russia ). The Guardian experimented with new media in 2005, offering

8526-404: The top ten percent most frequently shared articles. The conclusion is, that the average keywords within an article and the average popularity of said keywords have the greatest impact on the amount of shares an article receives. Moreover, the amount of links to other articles and the closeness to the most relevant current topics are influencing the popularity of an article heavily. On the other hand,

8624-453: The values and tactics of these groups, attempting to make them palatable to a broader audience. In the article, BuzzFeed News senior technology reporter Joseph Bernstein wrote that Breitbart actively fed from the "most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right ," and helped normalize the American far right . MSNBC 's Chris Hayes ranked the article as "one of the best reported pieces of

8722-732: The ways they may perpetuate racism, enhancing cross-cultural understanding between racial groups, countering "everyday" racism in institutional settings, and combating extremist right-wing neo-Nazi and neo-Fascist groups. Proponents of anti-racism claim that microaggressions can lead to many negative consequences in a work environment, learning environment, and to their overall sense of self-worth. Anti-racism work aims to combat microaggressions and help to break systemic racism by focusing on actions against discrimination and oppression . Standing up against discrimination can be an overwhelming task for people of color who have been previously targeted. Anti-racists claim that microinterventions can be

8820-416: The website a "failing pile of garbage" during a news conference. The publication of the dossier was also met with criticism from, among others, CNN reporter Jake Tapper , who called it irresponsible. BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith defended the site's decision to publish the dossier. BuzzFeed News faced at least two lawsuits as a result of publishing the dossier. In February 2017, Aleksej Gubarev,

8918-575: The world Library of Congress archived it subsequently. Unlike blog sites and other news websites, it is run as a newspaper and is recognized by media groups such as the NUJ and/or the IFJ . They fall under relevant press regulations and are signed up to the official UK press regulator IMPRESS . allNovaScotia is an online newspaper based in Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada that publishes business and political news six days

9016-510: The world, from Africa to Northern Ireland , movements of oppressed people continue to use tactics and words borrowed from our abolitionist and civil rights movements." Some of these uses have been controversial. Critics in the United Kingdom , such as Peter Hain , stated that in Zimbabwe , Robert Mugabe had used anti-racist rhetoric to promote land distribution , whereby privately held land

9114-470: The year". The Columbia Journalism Review described the story as a scrupulous, months-long project and "the culmination of years of reporting and source-building on a beat that few thought much about until Donald Trump won the presidential election." On October 29, 2017, BuzzFeed News published the original story in which actor Anthony Rapp accused actor Kevin Spacey of making sexual advances toward him at

9212-467: Was due to white fragility . 50% of the participants said that their burnout was caused by white activists taking credit for the work of activists of color or exploiting them in other ways. Egalitarianism has been a catalyst for feminist , anti-war , and anti-imperialist movements. Henry David Thoreau 's opposition to the Mexican–American War , for example, was based in part on his fear that

9310-516: Was scientifically unfounded and based merely on the prejudiced opinions of travelers and explorers. The evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin wrote in 1871 that ‘[i]t may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant’ and that ‘[a]lthough the existing races of man differ in many respects, as in colour, hair, shape of skull, proportions of the body, &c., yet if their whole structure be taken into consideration they are found to resemble each other closely in

9408-510: Was taken from white farmers and distributed to black Africans (see: Land reform in Zimbabwe ). Roman Catholic bishops stated that Mugabe framed the land distribution as a way to liberate Zimbabwe from colonialism, but that "the white settlers who once exploited what was Rhodesia have been supplanted by a black elite that is just as abusive." The phrase "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white", coined by white nationalist Robert Whitaker,

9506-404: Was their preferred method for reading a newspaper, down 4% from 2014. The methods people use to get their news from digital means was at 28%, as opposed to 20% of people attaining the news through print newspapers. These trends indicate an increase in digital consumption of newspapers, as opposed to print. Today, ad revenue for digital forms of newspapers is nearly 25%, while print is constituting

9604-554: Was willing to die on behalf of, as he said, "millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments ..." Many black Abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass , explicitly argued for the humanity of blacks and mulattoes, and the equality of all people. Due to resistance in the Southern United Statesand a general collapse of idealism in the North, Reconstruction ended, giving way to

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