BuzzFeed Hires 'Rolling Stone' Editor Doree Shafrir to Oversee Culture

But the cat photos aren't going anywhere

Another week, another newsworthy hire at BuzzFeed. Today, the rapidly expanding social news site announced the hire of Doree Shafrir as executive editor from RollingStone.com, where she was a senior editor.

Ben Smith, BuzzFeed’s new editor in chief whose hiring from Politico last month made its own big splash, said he was a longtime fan of Shafrir’s going back to the days when he was at the New York Daily News and she was a writer at Gawker.

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