BuzzFeed Information introduced on Thursday that Karolina Waclawiak, its govt editor of tradition, would turn out to be the subsequent prime editor.
In a memo to employees members, Samantha Henig, the interim editor in chief, stated that Ms. Waclawiak was chosen after a search involving inside and exterior candidates.
“I personally was impressed by Karolina’s want not simply to lean into BuzzFeed Information’s dominance as a trusted information supply for millennial and Gen Z readers, but additionally to have enjoyable doing it,” Ms. Henig wrote within the e mail, which was seen by The New York Occasions.
Ms. Waclawiak joined BuzzFeed Information in 2016, rising to steer its tradition protection and run information growth for BuzzFeed Studios. She labored on two latest documentaries from the studio arm: “The Rise and Fall of LuLaRoe” and “As soon as Upon a Time in Londongrad.” She was previously a deputy editor on the literary journal The Believer, and has written three novels.
She takes over the newsroom at BuzzFeed at a tricky second for the digital media firm. Since BuzzFeed went public in December, shares have nose-dived greater than 80 p.c, buying and selling on Thursday at lower than $1.70. A bunch of about 90 former staff have filed mass arbitration claims, saying they have been shortchanged by the corporate’s inventory market debut.
BuzzFeed’s chief govt, Jonah Peretti, introduced in March that the corporate would provide voluntary buyouts to shrink the information division, which final 12 months received a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the detention of Uyghur Muslims in China however has failed to show a revenue.
Plenty of distinguished reporters have stated they’ll take the buyout provide. The earlier editor in chief, Mark Schoofs, introduced in March that he was stepping down, and two different prime editors, Tom Namako and Ariel Kaminer, have left the corporate.
