The business of news in particular is not really about you're not going to compete for scale with entertainment, he says. "You have to get an audience who people really want to reach" Ben: I'd rather build more slowly and carefully with a business that is really paying the bills. 'I think we feel just immense pressure from all sides to get revenue in'
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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