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Clickbait’s destructive legacy
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Origins of Digital Media
Ben Smith is the co-founder of Semaphore and a former editor in chief at Buzzfeed. His new book, Traffic, Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion, tells the origin story of digital media. He says Nick Denton and Jonah Peretti had very different ideas about what future would be. The clear visions of the future have been very different ones, he says.
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