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USA Today: BuzzFeed, the New York-based website best known for its viral content, has hired former Guardian editor Janine Gibson to head up its United Kingdom edition. BuzzFeed has gone into the news business in recent years and now has 170 news staffers. It also is making an international push. Its U.K. edition, launched in 2013, has 40 staffers and more are on the way. Gibson is best known as the editor who oversaw the Guardian’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of documents leaked by former National Security Adviser Edward Snowden. At the time she was head of the British newspaper’s digital operations in the United States.