Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Shani O. Hilton, BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed’s head of U.S. News, Shani O. Hilton has deeply shaped the journalist juggernaut that the digital media company has become in recent years. As the head of one of the youngest and most diverse newsrooms in the nation, she’s as well known for the great work BuzzFeed has published as for the extraordinary talent she has helped incubate.
How did you become the editor you are?
I’ve been lucky enough to work with a number of brilliant, warm, thoughtful editors in my career;