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Benjamin Eli Smith is an American journalist who is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, a news website he formed with Justin Smith in early 2022. He was previously a media columnist at The New York Times from 2020 to 2022. From 2011 to 2020, he was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
Oct 20, 2022 · Ben Smith is the co-founder of Semafor, coming over from the New York Times. , out every Sunday night!
Oct 26, 2022 · Ben Smith’s Semafor is live. He says it will take 10 years to get it right. A Q&A with the co-founder of the news startup.
May 2, 2023 · Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called Traffic: Genius, Rivalry,...
Semafor is a news website founded in 2022 by Ben Smith, a former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and media columnist at The New York Times, and Justin B. Smith, the former CEO of Bloomberg Media Group.
Oct 18, 2022 · The Times “doesn’t just want a building, we want a neighborhood, and we think a neighborhood attracts more people in a lasting way,” Kopit Levien told the analyst Ben Thompson in a thoughtful and wide-ranging interview this summer.
Apr 30, 2023 · In “Traffic,” the journalist Ben Smith chronicles the nerdy genius, driven egos and moral experimentation of the internet’s contagious media pioneers.
Mar 22, 2022 · Justin Smith and Ben Smith, co-proprietors of a new media start-up that has captured the attention of the online news world, revealed on Tuesday the name for their venture: Semafor.
May 1, 2023 · In an excerpt from his new book, Traffic, former BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith reports how Jonah Peretti enraged Bob Iger by turning down a half-billion-dollar offer a decade back—and kept...
Oct 26, 2022 · And, in an expansive and frank interview, Joe Hagan talks to Ben Smith, former BuzzFeed editor in chief and New York Times media columnist, about his buzzy new media start-up, Semafor.
