Ben Smith
Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
- Reposted by Ben Smith(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
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- At our media summit, I asked @BrendanCarrFCC about the l view that the greatest threat to free speech is him -- the government. He disagreed and said it was the social media companies. At 5:30 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB64...
- Big job for an ambitious editor job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
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- Pretty remarkable: The New York Post and others are currently running with a document from the (strange and fascinating) Durham Annex that the Durham Annex (a few pages later) says is a Russian fake, all in the broader interest of debunking "Russiagate" nypost.com/2025/07/31/u...
- I do treasure this letter Tom Lehrer, who just died 60 years after he vanished from the stage, sent me when I tried to write about him www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom...
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- An NYC status update
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- A big story of this moment www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
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- Knives out for Musk allies www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
- .@maxwelltani scoop: CA State Senators @SenJoshBecker & @SenatorUmberg are opening an inquiry into Paramount's talks with Trump, and inviting Bill Owens and Wendy McMahon to testify www.semafor.com/article/05/3...
- Reality continuing to disintegrate around the edges per @daveweigel.bsky.social @kadiagoba.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
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- Re the latest Pentagon purge, there was certainly some anonymous and specific national security grousing about cost and purpose of Yemen attack. t.co/k1hkz0LdHE
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- 2024 has been declared "the year of the @maxtani.bsky.social scoop www.linkedin.com/pulse/year-m...
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- Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social in the inaugural NY Editorial Board interview nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/brad-lande...
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- Not a lot of newspaper writers left where you can read a story and guess the byline. @EllenBarryNYT just never misses www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
- Been a while since I stumbled out of bed on a Sunday and put on Al Jazeera. Extraordinary broadcast this AM.
- Kash Patel reasonably likely to get confirmed, @burgessev reports www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
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- Trump campaigm looked into influence allegations www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
- Ok ok, I'm here, apparently the Brits are a leading indicator these days. Brexit etc.
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- For all the (accurate) talk of the role new media played in the election, journalists are breaking 100% of transition news in pretty traditional ways.
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- Didn't log into this place for a month and now find I have way more followers. Is this what they call "yield farming"??
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- Anyone have a spare invite code for a friend?
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- Some new news, and my riff on the surprising reboot of AM2DM semafor.com/article/05/09/2023/…
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- I hear skeeters love books penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678592/traffi…
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- Can't believe this made Bluesky
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