It started as an irreverent—and sometimes repulsive—print magazine. Then it jettisoned everything that made it unique to try to cash in on the digital media bubble.

BuzzFeed and other big media brands of the social-web heyday were casualties of a gold rush controlled by Silicon Valley giants.

Frustration over coverage of Bernie Sanders’s campaign has led to an explosion of alternative television.

HBO's "Vice" goes from Brooklyn to Afghanistan, ironic distance intact