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Press Gazette Leak Forced BuzzFeed’s CEN Story Into The Open

This archived screenshot preserves Dominic Ponsford’s Press Gazette report titled “Buzzfeed investigation emails harm business of its main competitor in UK news market”, published on 24 April 2015, shortly before BuzzFeed published its own CEN article later the same day. The screenshot is significant because it records the moment CEN forced the pending BuzzFeed story into the open by providing Press Gazette with emails showing that BuzzFeed had been putting serious allegations about CEN to its media clients and commercial rivals before publication. The item matters in the evidence chain because the Press Gazette article publicly reframed BuzzFeed’s investigation around the conflict-of-interest issue: BuzzFeed was not merely investigating a news agency, but a competitor in the viral news market whose material was used by publishers BuzzFeed wanted to challenge. According to the wider chronology, the leak helped rush BuzzFeed into publishing its own article late on a Friday, at a time when many UK media readers were leaving work for the weekend, reducing the immediate impact and making this item a key turning point in the publication sequence.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

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