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BuzzFeed Picture Editor Forwards CEN Bearded Saint Story As “Interesting Conchita Story”

This 30 May 2014 email shows BuzzFeed picture editor Matthew Tucker forwarding a CEN picture story to the BuzzFeed UK newsdesk under the note “Interesting Conchita story here”, with the original CEN material, contact details and attached images preserved in the chain. The document is significant because it records another instance of BuzzFeed directly receiving, reading and positively circulating CEN content as usable editorial material before the later BuzzFeed/CEN investigation. It should be read alongside other internal BuzzFeed emails showing CEN stories being forwarded, discussed and selected by BuzzFeed staff, because it helps document the practical contradiction between BuzzFeed’s later attempts to distance itself from CEN and the earlier newsroom reality of CEN material being treated as a regular and useful content supply.

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Europe Media Published 1 May 2026 at 21:09 Source: 1 November 2016

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