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Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington predicts that nap rooms in offices are going to be “as common as conference rooms” in the next two years. Huffington’s mission: to eliminate the stigma long associated with sleeping at work. Napping on the job used to “mean [that employees were] not as dedicated, not as hard-working,” she…
Publishers are sick of being held to account by clients on click-through rates (CTR). But there’s a layer of apathy in some areas of the industry when it comes to doing something about it. In the latest installment of Digiday’s Confessions series, in which we offer anonymity in exchange for honesty, we spoke to the head…
Yahoo’s offices have become a grim place of late. In February, C.E.O Marissa Mayer announced that the company would shed 15 percent of its staff as it explores a sale of its core business. This human “streamlining” has been particularly brutal for morale at Yahoo’s extensive media holdings. Numerous publications have been shuttered, including Yahoo…
The “Panama Papers” are being called the largest ever leak of secret data, and articles about the offshore bank accounts of bigwigs worldwide — developed by a global consortium of journalists — began appearing Sunday afternoon. They burst into the Sunday afternoon news lull, getting huge play in media outlets around the world and in…
A leading voice of the new “alt-right,” Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, does not write many of the articles that appear under his byline on the conservative news site, two sources who have worked directly with him told BuzzFeed News. These sources — a former intern and someone who has worked with Yiannopoulos for years…
Milo Yiannopoulos. Photo: @nero/Twitter How many people does it take to produce a daily post and a handful of speeches about the ways that feminism threatens traditional video-game culture? At least 45, apparently: In a BuzzFeed article published Thursday night, Milo Yiannopoulos, the tech editor of Breitbart.com and a longtime Gamergate figure, acknowledged…
The best way to understand Milo Yiannopoulos, internet troll extraordinaire, is to ask him about feminism. “Sex-negative social justice warriors always banging on about ‘affirmative consent’ are secretly the first to strap on a gimp mask and demand to get fucked eleven ways,” Yiannopoulos wrote to me in an email. “Which, don’t get me wrong,…
A quiet spring weekend was suddenly shattered on Sunday when news of the “Panama Papers” investigation broke. The massive international project involved approximately 400 journalists across 75 countries, plowing through roughly 11.5 million documents from a secretive Panamanian law firm specializing in creating offshore holding companies. The investigation took more than a year, commencing after…
Of course it’s Milo Yiannopoulos (with his crony Allum Bokhari) who finally takes Breitbart “News” all the way over the line into overt white supremacism, with a lengthy, utterly disgusting article singing the praises of the “alt-right” movement — the latest term neo-Nazis, Gamergate trolls and white nationalists use to describe themselves: An Establishment Conservative’s…