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Jim Waterson Guardian Appointment Matters Because Of His Earlier BuzzFeed/CEN Involvement

This archived screenshot preserves a Press Gazette report titled “Buzzfeed’s Jim Waterson appointed new Guardian media editor”, published on 19 February 2018, recording Waterson’s move from BuzzFeed UK to The Guardian. The screenshot is significant because Waterson’s name appears in the wider BuzzFeed/CEN evidence chain, making his later role as Guardian media editor relevant when assessing subsequent Guardian coverage connected to CEN, BuzzFeed, newsX or the wider dispute. The item matters because Waterson later wrote material that became part of the court record and was relied upon in the litigation context, yet his earlier BuzzFeed connection and appearance in CEN-related documents raised an undeclared-involvement issue: a journalist who had worked inside the organisation involved in the original CEN investigation later held a powerful media-reporting role at The Guardian and wrote about related matters without that background being made clear. Read alongside the internal BuzzFeed/CEN documents in which Waterson appears, the item helps document the later public-media afterlife of the BuzzFeed narrative and the way people connected to the original investigation moved into influential positions where they could continue shaping how the story was understood.

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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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