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