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This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Buzzfeed
 * The article's topic was closely related to the courses subject matter.

Lead
The lead offers a good overview of what Buzzfeed is and a brief history of the site.

Content
The article is mostly up to date. Many of the articles cited were written in the last five years. The article could offer more information about the type of content on the site.There seems to be heavy coverage of Buzzfeed News with less emphasis on their other content.

Tone and Balance
The article seems neutral on most fronts, but takes a more critical tone of Buzzfeed's News site. The site offers more extensive coverage of the July 2014 Benny Johnson issue and a subsequent October 2014 Pew Research Center survey that found that people find Buzzfeed News to be unreliable. There is little coverage over the awards that Buzzfeed News had achieved since. While the reliability issue is important, there should be more emphasis on the awards the site has also won.

Sources and References
The article has inline citations throughout the page. The reliability of sources varies, though. Some sources are highly credible, such as Columbia Journalism Review and Pew Research Center, but other cites are blogs or other unreliable sources.

Organization
The article is well organized and offers an easy way to navigate through the topic.

Images and Media
The article offers only two pictures. One is of founder, Jonah Peretti. The other picture is of Benny Johnson. The picture of Jonah Peretti seems relevant, as he is the founder. While Benny Johnson is a notable figure at Buzzfeed, it seems unbalanced that they do not offer pictures of other, positive figures at Buzzfeed such as The Try Guys.

Checking the talk page
The talk page has a couple of comments insisting that Buzzfeed should be identified as a left-leaning news site in the lead. There are also questions of the sources provided. A couple of comments also ask for the site to be labelled as fake news. Before adding in the identifiers of "left-leaning" and "fake news" there should be sources provided to warrant such labels. There is little citation given for such information, making it seem that this the conversation is more opinion than actual verifiable information.

Overall impressions
The article offers good baseline information about Buzzfeed. It offers a sampling of what Buzzfeed offers. However, there seems to be unbalanced coverage in regards to their news sanction. The article could use updated information on the news site. The sources should also be vetted, as many of them come from unreliable sources such as blogs.

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