Ryan Broderick is an American journalist. He worked for ''

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'' from 2012 to 2020, where he was a senior journalist at the tech news desk until he was fired for plagiarism. He has also reported for ''

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'' and ''

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''. Broderick has run the newsletter Garbage Day since 2019.

Career

Broderick wrote for ''The Hofstra Chronicle'', where he was editor-in-chief beginning in February 2010. He also drew cartoons for the paper, and dabbled in stand-up comedy. In 2010, he worked for ''

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'', where he was an editor. Following Hofstra, he was hired by ''

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'' in 2012 where, prior to becoming a reporter, he was a community moderator. During his tenure, BuzzFeed named him Deputy Global News Director, BuzzFeed News, UK, and he managed the company's London office. In 2015, he became a podcaster, launching the ''Internet Explorer'' podcast, together with Katie Notopoulos. In 2018, he became a

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guest scholar in a program to tackle fake news. In 2019, BuzzFeed relocated Broderick to New York, back from the London office. From March 2020, Broderick cohosted the ''Content Mines'' podcast.

Plagiarism and firing

In June 2020, Broderick was fired from BuzzFeed for direct

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in authored articles spanning over the course of his entire employment as a journalist there. ''BuzzFeed News'' issued an apology.

Personal life

Broderick is a 2011

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graduate of The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, where he had also sat on the dean's advisory board until his firing from BuzzFeed in 2020 for plagiarism. Broderick was in the band Tallboys. Broderick lives in

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. He is originally from

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References

External links

Garbage Day
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