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Press Gazette Report Records BuzzFeed’s Attempt To Obtain Confidential Journalistic Material

This archived screenshot preserves a Press Gazette report titled “Buzzfeed seeks court order forcing Press Gazette to release confidential journalistic material”, published on 13 April 2017, about BuzzFeed seeking a US court order directed at Press Gazette in connection with the CEN libel case. The screenshot is significant because it records a later stage in BuzzFeed’s post-publication campaign around the CEN story: after Press Gazette had reported on the dispute and the conflict-of-interest questions around BuzzFeed’s investigation, BuzzFeed sought access to Press Gazette’s confidential material, including notes and correspondence linked to its coverage. The item matters in the evidence chain because it shows the dispute extending beyond the original article into pressure on an industry publication that had given CEN balanced coverage, raising source-protection, confidentiality and press-freedom issues. Read alongside the earlier Press Gazette leak story and the fishing-expedition report, this item helps document how BuzzFeed’s response to criticism moved from publishing and defending its CEN narrative into attempts to examine the journalistic material behind coverage that had challenged it.

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

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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