Media people

BuzzFeed bureau adds Adam Vary to cover film

hollywood-sign-oh-vdt.jpgThe Los Angeles bureau of BuzzFeed continues to ramp up. Today Richard Rushfield et al are announcing the hire of Adam Vary as senior film reporter. He comes from the Los Angeles bureau of Entertainment Weekly, and also has written for Variety, The Advocate, and Alternative Press magazine. Vary starts January 28. "Audiences talk to each other, and with filmmakers, more than ever through social media, and BuzzFeed is at the center of those conversations," Vary says in a statement through the site. "I am thrilled to be joining Richard, Kate, and the rest of the BuzzFeed team to help cover Hollywood in new, exciting, innovative ways." Kate is chief correspondent Kate Aurthur. Here's the BuzzFeed entertainment vertical.

Photo of Hollywood sign: Veronique de Turenne


More by Kevin Roderick:
'In on merit' at USC
Read the memo: LA Times hires again
Read the memo: LA Times losing big on search traffic
Google taking over LA's deadest shopping mall
Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staff
Recent Media people stories on LA Observed:
Walking through 4,000 photographs with Annie Leibovitz
Read the memo: LA Times hires again
Read the memo: LA Times losing big on search traffic
Joe Frank, somewhere out there
Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staff
Michael Bloomberg
Put Jamal Khashoggi Square outside the Saudi consulate on Sawtelle
Here's who the LA Times has newly hired*