Ben Smith
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Editor-in-chief of @semafor. Former @nytimes media columnist, @buzzfeednews EIC. "Traffic." [email protected], Signal semaforben.90
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2007
We interview new Partnership for NYC head about how he got the job despite not having lived in NYC (long long somewhat anticlimactic story!), why NYC and S should be worried about the taxes they are threatening to pile on (businesses are growing faster elsewhere), homeless
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I’m a huge fan of the niche @brendanruberry is carving out as Semafor’s Strange New York Characters reporter. This is a great follow up to the wrong de Blasio saga.
NEW: I spent St. Patrick's Day with the New York Post, as we hunted for the oldest pothole in the city -- and, in the process, the answer to an existential question: What kind of journalism, and journalists, will survive the age of AI?
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Love this @brendanruberry story
.@semafor profiles the New York Post Runners -- the backbone of the storied newsroom. “In a day and age where AI is taking over,” the @nypost is “still doing basic journalism every day,” @liaeustach says. The runner offers a dynamic, and distinctly analog, example of what a
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A fun story about some real reporters.
.@semafor profiles the New York Post Runners -- the backbone of the storied newsroom. “In a day and age where AI is taking over,” the @nypost is “still doing basic journalism every day,” @liaeustach says. The runner offers a dynamic, and distinctly analog, example of what a
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I started as a runner. It was a foundational experience. Not a day goes by as an executive editor where I don't think about how reporters have the toughest jobs -- especially those doing the least glamorous work of endless door knocks and hours long stakeouts. Thanks @semafor.
.@semafor profiles the New York Post Runners -- the backbone of the storied newsroom. “In a day and age where AI is taking over,” the @nypost is “still doing basic journalism every day,” @liaeustach says. The runner offers a dynamic, and distinctly analog, example of what a
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1/ NEW: 'The New York Editorial Board' interview with @StevenFulop, new President/CEO of @Partnership4NYC
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The modern world is very strange sometimes
Heads-up: Pre-market so-called “news” or “Truth” is often just a setup for profit-taking. Basically, it’s a reverse indicator. Do the opposite: If they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long. See something tomorrow? You know the drill.
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trump can’t reopen the strait of hormuz with an air campaign. and the iranians aren’t going to accept that outcome willingly. ground troops are coming.
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ذهبت بعض الصحافة بعيدًا في قراءة مواقف الإمارات، ولا بد من وضعها في سياقها الصحيح. نتعرض لعدوان إيراني غاشم منذ أسابيع يستهدف كياننا وبنيتنا الحيوية ويهدد حياة المدنيين، وهو ما نتصدى له بثبات وكفاءة، فالدفاع عن السيادة والوطن شرف ومسؤولية. ومع ذلك نؤكد قناعتنا بأن الحل السياسي
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CPAC crowd for Reza Pahlavi and CPAC crowd 50 minutes after he left the room
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President Trump on markets and oil: “I thought we were going to go down more, and I thought oil prices were going to go up higher than they are now.”
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This is why, the minute you move to NYC, you just choose one airport and stick with it for life. No matter what.
When you get to the front of the line at JFK only to learn your flight home is out of LGA. I’m a stupid person and deserve to be bullied online.
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US arms manufacturing's broken: Switzerland stopped paying for Patriots it ordered, because they are not coming. And price went up by est.50%. The US simply started taking the cash out of F35s payments . Swiss now reconsidering doing business with the US https://t.co/25baVzL5eS
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Der Zahlungsstopp bei Patriot hat keine Wirkung: Die USA bedienen sich stattdessen bei den Schweizer Kampfjet-Geldern.
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Whenever young people ask me about going into journalism, I try to sell them on financial journalism. Their eyes usually glaze over, but there are very, very few jobs on earth where your job description is closer to "monitor the situation"
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The trajectory of last 2 weeks is worrying Israel, multiple security sources tell @AlMonitor : - Trump looking for exit - Trump doesn't want to hit infrastructure - Trump making less calls to Netanyahu - Vance increasingly taking charge - Iran regime intact
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@semafor realeased a new show last week, The CEO Signal with co-hosts @Edgecliffe and @PennyPritzker. If you haven’t listened to the first episode with @Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, check it out here: https://t.co/55cMvJCE8K
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Got my first PR pitch from an OpenClaw agent, just a few journalistic faux pas https://t.co/y3ypu5saaH
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newsy Arctic Frost update: AT&T changing process for notifying senators if phone records are subpoenaed, per email sent to Senate offices. Grassley revealed a bunch of GOP senators were subpoenaed during Arctic Frost and Republicans have been livid about it
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What the Gulf has learned, per @FaisalJAbbas
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Operation Epic Fury has shown that Iran’s hatred towards its Arab neighbours far exceeds its hatred of Israel.
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