BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost — and inheriting its diversity issues

HuffPost has been owned by Verizon since 2015, when the telecom company bought it along with TechCrunch and Engadet in an deal with AOL.

About an hour after the news that BuzzFeed is acquiring HuffPost first broke, BuzzFeed chief Jonah Peretti held an all-hands for HuffPost staffers over Google Meet. Peretti appeared enthusiastic and optimistic, according to two HuffPost staffers who were on the call, and those feelings were shared by some members of the staff at HuffPost, but not without some trepidation.

"I think the newsroom generally feels a lot better being part of a company that is journalistic at its core, rather than being part of a telecom company that ran us very poorly," one of the HuffPost staffers told CNN Business. "We're just waiting to learn specific information about what the plan is because you don't benefit from being part of a company with a brighter future if you get laid off."

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