ALBAWABA- BuzzFeed News, the Pulitzer Prize-winning digital news website, will be shutting down as part of broader layoffs across BuzzFeed, announced the company’s CEO Jonah Peretti on Thursday. BuzzFeed will slash 15% of its workforce, amounting to 180 employees. While layoffs are happening across nearly every division, BuzzFeed News cannot continue to function as a standalone organization. BuzzFeed has begun discussions with the News Guild, the union representing staffers at ...