Redacted five-page letter and email from BuzzFeed UK reporter Alan White to Michael Leidig, sent on 20 April 2015, shortly before publication of BuzzFeed’s article about Central European News. The email follows an earlier communication of 15 April and adds two further questions about CEN stories: the Chinese “walking cabbages” story and the pink kitten story involving Elena Lenina. The document is significant because it shows the pre-publication framing of BuzzFeed’s questions to CEN, including White’s statement that BuzzFeed did “not want to write a takedown” of the agency, but instead a “nuanced assessment of the realities of viral news production.” The attached earlier letter then sets out a wider list of allegations and examples BuzzFeed intended to rely on, covering stories including the Justin Bieber bear ringtone, Lucita Sandoval, the Chinese backpacker sex-for-travel story, the sashimi tapeworm, two-headed goat, naked snow, Macedonia penis injury, Paraguay baby thief, underwear thief, cheating wife and amputated penis stories, as well as questions about Journalism Without Borders and Michael Leidig’s Wikipedia page. The document is useful as a contemporaneous record of BuzzFeed’s pre-publication approach, the specific examples put to CEN, the deadline given for response, and the way BuzzFeed characterised its intended article before publication.