Buzzfeed is shutting down its Pulitzer Prize-winning digital news site, the company’s CEO confirmed in a memo on Thursday.

The move to shutter Buzzfeed News is part of the company’s goal to cut 15% of its workforce across the board.

Some of the staff at Buzzfeed News will be offered ‘select roles’ at the company’s other digital news site HuffPost, which they purchased in 2020.

‘Moving forward, we will have a single news brand in HuffPost, which is profitable, with a loyal direct front page audience,’ CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in the memo.

Buzzfeed founded Buzzfeed News in 2011. It was helmed by editor-in-chief Ben Smith until his departure for the New York Times in 2020.

Buzzfeed News built a well-respected news division earning the outlet a National Magazine Award, a George Polk Award, and a National Press Association Award, among others.

In 2021, three Buzzfeed News reporters, Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, and Christo Buschek won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series about China’s detainment of the Uighur Muslim minority.

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