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Shani Hilton

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  1. “Yeah, but that was across the entire organization, sales and tech and everything. And it was a few years old at that point. And I was sort of looking to get out of DC. I mean, I love DC, but I was looking to sort of get out of political journalism. And I wasn't, and I didn't want to stay in local news. So I thought, okay, New York, if you can make it there. But then, you know, I emailed around, emailed some folks that I knew in New York and got connected with an editor at BuzzFeed who eventually hired me. So”

    2016-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Pretty much. You know, you start when you're 13. It really does take a lot out of you. And so I thought that I was going to be, you know, I thought for a while I was going to do news design and be a graphic designer. And then I thought, you know what, I want to get out of this all together. And then I went to Princeton and worked in their comms department. I started as a designer and then I moved into actually writing again. And then I realized I missed news and came back.”

    2016-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “It's funny, I got a journalism degree and I went in thinking I would be in news and I left thinking I didn't want anything to do with news because I was a little burned out as one does when one is 21 years old.”

    2016-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Some of it. Yeah, we were a pretty autonomous organization. A lot of it is ground up, but I do kind of oversee our biggest, some of our biggest projects and our day-to-day operations.”

    2016-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT