i think t smething at busfeed that i really came to appreciate to was like, oh, ow. Production people is the old word. Now it includes a lot of social men stuff, but who, by the way, get none of the glory and don't of their names on things. Are sort of always undervalued in these news rooms. How you can figure out how to compensate for that is actuly like a real management challenge. The depth of the editing corps isn't realy underrated. There's a real gap now between the stars and the second editor on your column,. Who's making a lot better. Love's having stars. I haven't been there long enough
Ben Smith is the media columnist for The New York Times. He was the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
”I do think there's some kind of personality flaw deep in there of wanting to like, you know, find stuff out and tell people.... I'm not sure that's a totally sane or healthy personality trait, but it is definitely, for me, a personality trait…. I think that in political reporting, certainly, there's a kind of reporter who thinks that their job is basically to pull the masks off of these monsters. And I generally tend to think all these people—with some exceptions—are weird and complicated and often doing really awful things. But they aren't necessarily irredeemable or impossible to understand…. They're interesting.”
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