BuzzFeed Photo Editor Asks CEN To Help Find Hainan Airlines Images

This 11 December 2015 email records BuzzFeed photo editor Jenna Williams contacting CEN to ask for help finding images for a proposed story about Hainan Airlines. Williams writes that she is “reaching out in hopes that you can point me in the right direction of finding these images” and adds that BuzzFeed “would love to run a story on it” if CEN could help. The document is significant because it shows BuzzFeed still approaching CEN as a practical image-sourcing and picture-industry contact months after the publication of its attack on the agency. In the wider evidence chain, it helps document the contradiction between BuzzFeed’s public position on CEN and its newsroom’s continuing willingness to seek assistance from CEN for visual material. Read alongside the earlier BuzzFeed/CEN buying, licensing, rights-clearance and alert records, it supports the pattern that BuzzFeed treated CEN as a useful editorial and picture-desk resource even while, or after, portraying it publicly as an unreliable supplier of viral content.

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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