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New publisher Dao Nguyen on balancing laughs with hard news

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Who Dao Nguyen

New gig Publisher, BuzzFeed

Old gig Vp of growth and data, BuzzFeed

Age 41

Twitter @daozers

What do you do as publisher?

Publishing is literally the act of making information available to the public. For a purely digital operation like BuzzFeed, what we take publishing to mean is the entire technology platform. It's how we make information available to the public—all the tools that our editors and creative [workers] use to make content, how it appears on the site and how it is distributed on the Internet through social networks.

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