{"id":3636,"date":"2015-02-16T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2015-02-16T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:06:06","slug":"what-is-the-buzz-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/what-is-the-buzz-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the buzz about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DIYA VASUDEVAN<\/p>\n<p>Buzzfeed, a name I am sure you have heard of before, is a name I see everyday. As a journalism student I have always aimed of writing in a way that is both entertaining and informative and I feel that Buzzfeed\u00a0encompasses just that.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not heard of Buzzfeed, it is essentially an American Internet news media company, created and founded by CEO and co-founder Jonah Perreti. Although Buzzfeed\u00a0originally seems just entertainment oriented, at the root of it, it is an extremely multi-faceted Website where you can either take fun quizzes like &#8216;Which &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/perpetua\/snl-quiz\">Which &#8216;SNL&#8217; Icon Are\u00a0You?,&#8221;<\/a> look up articles based entirely on cats &#8220;<a class=\"trend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kaelintully\/freddie-mercury-is-a-great-man\">17 Extremely Helpful Cats&#8221;<\/a> alongside articles about ISIS &#8220;<a class=\"lede__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/davidmack\/isis-egypt-christians-beheading-video\">U.S. Condemns &#8216;Despicable&#8217; And &#8216;Cowardly&#8217; ISIS Beheading Of Egyptian Christians In Libya.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes Buzzfeed so buzz worthy is that it is one of a kind, audiences can interact with the website by clicking buttons like &#8220;OMG&#8221; or &#8220;LOL&#8221; depending on the article. In addition comments by viewers are taken seriously and Buzzfeed take the extra step to acknowledge the readers for noticing these errors.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Buzzfeed uploaded a video involving President Obama &#8220;<a class=\"trend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewgauthier\/the-president-uses-a-selfie-stick\">Things Everybody Does But Doesn&#8217;t Talk About, Featuring President Obama.&#8221;<\/a> Buzzfeed managed to not only provide an entertaining video featuring the most powerful man in America but editors also managed to inform the public about ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>In an age where media are merging, so are the aims of articles. In today&#8217;s world, you do not need to choose between CNN and ENews. Buzzfeed is a one-stop shop to newsworthy stories whether its entertainment or serious news.\u00a0 It is all about latest the buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DIYA VASUDEVAN Buzzfeed, a name I am sure you have heard of before, is a name I see everyday. As a journalism student I have always aimed of writing in a way that is both entertaining and informative and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/what-is-the-buzz-about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[42,30,107],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diya-vasudevan","tag-digital-journalism","tag-journalism","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}