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90 Day Jane
''90 Day Jane'' was a blog and hoax run by an anonymous woman, known as Jane, who promised to commit suicide 90 days after launching the blog, with the tagline, "I'm Going to Kill Myself in 90 Days". Her blog posts chronicled her life in the days leading up to her ostensibly planned suicide and asked its readers to help her pick a method for killing herself, citing Christine Chubbuck and R. Budd Dwyer as inspirations for her publicizing her suicide. The comments on the blog ranged from sympathetic to negative, with NPR's Laura Conaway writing that "some of them [are] showing the worst -- really, the worst -- in human beings." Suicide prevention advocates frowned upon 90 Day Jane, fearing that it would encourage others to emulate her behavior. In February 2008, she revealed that the blog was started as an art project meant for a small group of her friends and that she did not actually plan on committing suicide; she took down the blog soon after. References 2008 hoaxes Blogs Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BuzzFeed News
''BuzzFeed News'' is an American news website published by BuzzFeed. It has published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Steele dossier, for which it was heavily criticized, and the FinCEN Files. Since its establishment in 2011, it has won the George Polk Award, The Sidney Award, National Magazine Award, the National Press Foundation award, and the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. History ''BuzzFeed News'' began as a division of BuzzFeed in December 2011 with the appointment of Ben Smith as editor-in-chief. In 2013, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Schoofs of ProPublica was hired as head of investigative reporting. By 2016, ''BuzzFeed News'' had 20 investigative journalists. The British division of ''BuzzFeed News'' is headed by Janine Gibson, formerly of ''The Guardian''. Notable coverage includes a 2012 partnership with the BBC on match-fixing in professional tennis, and inequities in the U.S. H-2 guest worker program, reporting of which won a National Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |