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Comment by maccio92 | Hacker News Reader

Verizon is a journalism company?

> With brands like Yahoo, HuffPost and TechCrunch, Verizon Media transforms how people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact.

[0] - https://www.verizonmedia.com/

From the article: "Verizon Media Group, the portfolio of media brands that includes Yahoo, AOL and The Huffington Post"

Verizon is the parent of Oath (and therefore owns TechCrunch)

Oath is now called Verizon Media

Buzzfeed is?

They were finalists for the 2017 and 2018 Pulitzer prizes, so the answer's a pretty clear "yes".

Wasn't Pulitzer the creator of yellow journalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Frankly, the pulizter, oscar or any of these prizes are meaningless to me since it is apparent that they are part advertisements and part agenda pushing and any objective measure of achievement. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

If the most prestigious award in journalism doesn't count for anything, you could always read up on how they formed their investigative arm (which includes links to some pretty solid journalism): https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-a...

Or you can just go "nuh uh". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They gave money to a disgruntled Guardian employee, so widely disliked employees voted against her promotion to editor, who then took her team with her?

They're a media company at the very least.

They own Huffington Post and TechCrunch.

Tricky answer.

Yes

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