BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings Dead at 33

Journalist, also a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, killed in car crash

Michael Hastings, a reporter for BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone contributing editor, died earlier today at the age of 33, the social news site has announced.

BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone reported that Hastings died in a car accident in Los Angeles.

"We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone," BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith said in a statement. "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians.

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