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Rosalyn Warren Unsubscribes From CEN Alerts Despite BuzzFeed’s Wider Search For CEN Content

This 14 October 2014 email records BuzzFeed’s Rosalyn Warren asking to be removed from CEN’s email list after receiving a CEN video alert about a Taiwan traffic-light camera story, with CEN replying “done.” The forwarded alert includes the underlying CEN copy, download link and file references for the video and still image material, showing the kind of ready-to-use editorial package being distributed through CEN’s alert system. The document is significant because it confirms that Warren was receiving CEN material directly in the ordinary course of distribution, following earlier BuzzFeed requests for staff to be added to CEN alerts. In the wider evidence chain, this matters because BuzzFeed later appeared to be trying to reconstruct or locate CEN content while at least some BuzzFeed staff already knew that CEN alerts were being received inside the organisation. Read alongside the request to add Richard James to CEN alerts and other BuzzFeed/CEN buying and licensing records, this document helps show a gap between BuzzFeed’s later investigative posture and the practical reality that parts of its own newsroom had already had direct access to CEN material. It is also notable that the exchange is a routine unsubscribe request, not a complaint about fabrication, reliability or editorial misconduct.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – CEN Case Documents

europe Media newsX Community Interest Company Published 3 May 2026 at 13:43 Source: 16 July 2016

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