When you were editor in chief of BuzzFeed, the newsroom broke big stories and won awards including a Pulitzer. Now that BuzzFeed is unionized, what will it look like? "Good reporters mostly are not particularly interested in or focused on the media business," he says. CNN's John Sutter spoke with Benzinga about his new book Traffic.
To make sense of a turbulent and important week in media, we turn to Ben Smith who was the founding Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed News (2012 to 2020) and the former New York Times media critic (from 2020 to 2022). On the agenda: the shuttering of Buzzfeed News, the meaning of Murdoch's settlement with Dominion and what Ben is working on these days, including his news organization Semafor and his forthcoming book, Traffic.
Since we taped Kara got her blue check (against her wishes!) when Twitter re-verified some accounts over the weekend.
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