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Meet the Trinidad Native who’s the Soon-To-Be Media Mogul Leading Buzzfeed’s Shift To Mobile

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About five years ago, Stacy-Marie Ishmael was asked an all-too familiar question in an interview: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”

At the time, Ishmael was a reporter at The Financial Times, covering dense topics like emerging markets. The world of traditional journalism, like the economy, was in tumult: Newspaper revenue was on a steep decline and relatively new entrants like The Huffington Post and Buzzfeed were beginning to steal audiences left and right.

“None of the jobs that I have done in the past five years really existed before I did them or really existed before the organization that I was working for created them,” she told the reporter. “I am pretty sure that in the next five years it will be the same.”

Ishmael’s answer couldn’t have been more poignant. Now the managing editor for mobile at Buzzfeed News, she has created a new and integral role for herself within the media powerhouse. As more and more news junkies move to reading on mobile instead of their desktops, Ishmael is responsible for how Buzzfeed will meet them there. In just a few months, the Trinidad native developed a standalone news application that is now in the hands of iPhone users. The day the app went live in June, a man killed a dozen people in Charleston, South Carolina, putting both Ishmael and her app to the test as it handled a stream of breaking news. More

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