Matt Stopera

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Matt Stopera is a senior editor at

photo stream.[1][2]

When he was 14, he appeared on an episode of MTV's Fanography to talk about his obsession with Britney Spears.[3] Stopera attended college at NYU and majored in Communications. "I originally wanted to go to school for journalism because I thought it was cool or something. I took the intro class and HATED it, so I decided to do Comm because there were a bunch of classes about pop culture, which is what I really like. I quickly learned you didn’t have to go to school for journalism to write," he explained.

Stopera began his online media career as an intern at BuzzFeed in August 2008. The website was still in its infancy, with only two other editorial employees on staff.

BusinessWeek to suggest he had "broken a code." However, a report by Gawker found that many of his posts were later taken down.[7] Ben Smith said that the deleted posts were “corrected” after Gawker pointed out, in 2012, that they insufficiently credited other websites.[7]

Stopera lives in

Alphabet City with actress Ilana Glazer, whom he met in his first week of college and has lived with ever since.[8]

Brother Orange

In February 2014, Stopera lost his iPhone in a New York City bar. After buying a new one, he noticed bizarre images of a Chinese man posing next to a grove of orange trees, which were taken on his stolen phone. After writing a story about his experience on BuzzFeed, users on the Chinese social media site

Weibo helped track down the man who took the photos.[2]
Stopera met the man in China, who was dubbed "Brother Orange" by Chinese social media.

References

  1. ^ "BuzzFeed Editor Meets Brother Orange, the Chinese Man Who Received His Stolen iPhone" The New York Times. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b "BuzzFeed Writer's Stolen Phone Sparks Chinese Viral Sensation" 'NPR. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Britney Spears' Biggest Fan Shares His Britney Stash". MTV. December 9, 2009.
  4. ^ "Matt Stopera: Senior Editor at BuzzFeed" How Did You Get That Job?. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  5. ^ "BuzzFeed, the Ad Model for the Facebook Era?" 'BusinessWeek. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  6. ^ "The Oatmeal Sucks, Even if Buzzfeed Was Wrong". Gawker. December 17, 2012. Archived from the original on November 27, 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Over 4,000 BuzzFeed Posts Have Completely Disappeared". Gawker. August 12, 2014. Archived from the original on November 2, 2015.
  8. ^ "Id Girls". The New Yorker. June 23, 2014.
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