BuzzFeed continues to signal its aspirations to be a major player in the news business. Two weeks after announcing a video partnership with CNN, the viral site said it has hired the Guardian‘s Moscow bureau chief, Miriam
Elder, to be its Foreign Editor. “Foreign coverage is one of the last spheres where new media haven’t competed aggressively with newspapers and television networks,” said
editor-in-chief Ben Smith, in a release issued Monday morning.
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