.BuzzFeed's Twitter Morning Show AM2DM Shutting Down, Staffers Laid Off
’s “AM to DM” weekday morning news and pop-culture show on the social platform, leading the digital media company to suspend production and lay off employees working on the program., BuzzFeed head of studio Cindy Vanegas-Gesuale wrote that Twitter — citing the COVID-19 crisis — was dropping financial support for “AM to DM” as well as another BuzzFeed programming project that had been planned.
“[A]fter several high-level conversations, Twitter informed us that due to the impact of coronavirus on the business, they can no longer fund ‘AM to DM’ or the new programming initiative we’d planned with them in the near term,” Vanegas-Gesuale wrote in the memo. “Unfortunately, BuzzFeed cannot support these shows without the investment from Twitter, so we have no choice but to suspend production on both before the end of April.
The last day for BuzzFeed staffers who are being laid off as a result of the shutdown of “AM to DM” and the other Twitter-backed show will be April 28, per the memo. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement, “We will continue to partner with BuzzFeed on the other content collaborations we have around the world, and explore new ways to bring compelling video content to people on Twitter.” Last month the company warned investors it wouldA BuzzFeed rep declined to comment. The shutdown of “AM to DM” was first reported in
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