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That's the idea behind it. Though Buzzfeed actually have a news branch with actual journalists behind it based in west-coast & east-coast. I was interviewed by a couple of them and it was a pleasant experience. I don't know if upvoted is planning on hiring journalists on staff. May be Alexis can tell us more here.

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We have an awesome Editor, Vickie Chang, who manages a small team of staff writers and freelancers: http://upvoted.com/contributors/

Seems like they do have journalists* on staff, according to Alexis, in these comments.

* "202M+ people can surface his story and raise a ton of money, but our team of reporters has a much easier time following up to close the loop." Is what he said earlier in the comments, I'm sure he'll clarify if I've gotten anything wrong.

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