Ben Smith
@semaforben
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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
New Mixed Signals: We talked to @donetodeath about How Long Gone, and about how institutions are cool again .
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The ‘How Long Gone’ co-host on building a cult hit podcast, the surprising comeback of media gatekeepers in 2025, and why he still believes in the power of institutions.
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RT @Dimi: SCOOP - Trump administration told #Taiwan's President @ChingteLai he could not transit #NewYork en route to Central America. Lai….
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Move comes as US and China hold trade talks and seek to stabilise relations
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RT @davidfolkenflik: How Fox got ahead on the big media future - sharp from @semaforben
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The deals represent a dramatic change from Fox’s reputation of keeping a tight hold on talent.
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RT @CurtMills: A quoted here by @semaforben on the potential canard that "personnel was the problem with Term 1." For better or worse, it m….
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Just as the president often ignored his conventional advisers in the first term, he’s stunned loyalists by sweeping aside this carefully assembled apparat in 2025.
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RT @joshuarolson: How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than….
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Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
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RT @maxwelltani: legit more emotional here than when he won the nba championship and finals mvp.
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After I got Lehrer on the phone in Cambridge, he told me to make up whatever I felt like and promised not to contradict it. I framed the letter:
So sad to see that Tom Lehrer died. Musical and math prodigy and iconoclastic star of the conformist 1950s who totally rejected fame, one of the most interesing people I've ever written about
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So sad to see that Tom Lehrer died. Musical and math prodigy and iconoclastic star of the conformist 1950s who totally rejected fame, one of the most interesing people I've ever written about
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RT @afneil: Trump knows he's facing a scandal he can't control
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The President's MAGA base of true believers refuses to accept the official reasons why the files on the late notorious paedophile can't be made public.
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RT @mattyglesias: Note that Rupert Murdoch has done much more to stand up for free speech via his stewardship of the Wall Street Journal th….
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RT @semafor: 🟡 This week on Mixed Signals, Scott Galloway joins @semaforben and @maxwelltani to talk about how he turned a career in market….
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Wonderful @burgessev piece on @CoryBooker's self-appointed new role as Democrats's social media manager
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RT @BenjySarlin: The South Park guys are classic “leave me alone” independents, a concept that’s swung pretty wildly between appealing to l….
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A New York civic powerhouse @JulieSandorf, who was instrumental to starting @THECITYNY & many other projects, is stepping down. An incredible run that began with the "Mid-Bronx Desperadoes Community Development Corporation"
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Telegraph deleted this Russia-panic story with no note
These stories of guilt-by-association to any Russian were one of the worst features of 2016-20, and a source points out this one makes particularly little sense, as the Russian in question was the target of expropriation .
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