BuzzFeed has announced that it will be closing its news operations in the UK and Australia. The website said that the closures are due to economic and strategic reasons and that Buzzfeed will now be focusing on its US output. Buzzfeed's staff took to Twitter to announce the news. 

BuzzFeed's UK political editor Alex Wickham tweeted: "So incredibly proud of the BuzzFeed UK team, which punched so far above its weight and did some really amazing journalism." 

News editor Alan White posted that "the amount of talent in that office was unreal." 

The BBC has reported that some staff in the UK team will stay on to cover social news, celebrity and investigations but speculates that about 10 jobs are affected. BBC News media editor Amol Rajan said the affected UK staff had been furloughed.