What Ben Smith’s departure says about the future of BuzzFeed News
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Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my tech and media newsletter. You can subscribe over here or just click on this handy little button: What Ben Smith’s departure says about the future of BuzzFeed News It’s one of those subjects that’s designed to excite the tiny community known as Media Twitter and literally no one else: a journalist leaving one high-profile publisher to take a job at another high-profile outlet. But since 90% of the people I follow belong to Media Twitter, then it was no surprise when my feed lit up with the news that Ben Smith, who joined BuzzFeed as its editor-in-chief back in 2011, is departing to The New York Times. And not as a high-level editor, mind you, but as its media columnist.
What Ben Smith’s departure says about the future of BuzzFeed News
What Ben Smith’s departure says about the…
What Ben Smith’s departure says about the future of BuzzFeed News
Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my tech and media newsletter. You can subscribe over here or just click on this handy little button: What Ben Smith’s departure says about the future of BuzzFeed News It’s one of those subjects that’s designed to excite the tiny community known as Media Twitter and literally no one else: a journalist leaving one high-profile publisher to take a job at another high-profile outlet. But since 90% of the people I follow belong to Media Twitter, then it was no surprise when my feed lit up with the news that Ben Smith, who joined BuzzFeed as its editor-in-chief back in 2011, is departing to The New York Times. And not as a high-level editor, mind you, but as its media columnist.