The podcasting boom is seeing a retrenchment: BuzzFeed shuttered its internal podcasting division and will cancel most of its podcast shows.
As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the New York-based digital-media company will end podcasts including “See Something Say Something,” “The News” and “Reporting To You.” BuzzFeed News will continue to produce podcasts via third-party producers, but is shifting internal resources toward longer-form video projects.
“We’ve decided to move to a production model that is more like our TV projects — that is, treating shows as individual projects, with teams brought on as needed,” Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed News VP of news and programming, wrote in a memo to staff Thursday.
The move will result in only a “handful” of employees getting dismissed, per the Journal. But BuzzFeed News employees reacted to the cutbacks with deep dismay, according to CNN’s Oliver Darcy. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen the news team this…
