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Dec 4, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Ben Smith
PredictionName“If media companies can’t figure out how to be the bundlers, other layers of the ecosystem — telecoms, devices, social platforms — will.” We’ve covered 2024 as the fragmentation election, and media analysts mostly assume fragmentation will continue — more and more podcasts and Substacks and hyper-personalized TikTok accounts, and a weaker and weaker big media. But as one of the great early internet CEOs once said, there are only two ways to go in media: bundling and unbundling.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
link.chtbl.com | Ben Smith |Nayeema Raza |Max Tani |Benjy Sarlin
Where were you when Joe Biden lost the debate to Trump? Max was in the CNN Spin Room, Nayeema watched with a cabal of crypto bros and Ben was at home with his family, scrolling X. They discuss the moment the debate was decided (9:22 or 9:23 EST) — and who gets to call it.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
vnews.com | Ben Smith
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles By BEN SMITH For the Valley NewsPublished: 06-21-2024 5:48 PM Over the past six months, Vermonters have witnessed two deeply saddening policy implosions.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
link.chtbl.com | Ben Smith |Nayeema Raza |Max Tani
Despite Washington moves to ban TikTok, the company and influencers in the South of France seem to be in denial. Ben, Nayeema, and Max explore conspiracies around TikTok and the company’s future, particularly if its most recent Tokfluencer, Donald Trump, wins in November. Then they turn to the saga of Will Lewis, CEO of The Washington Post, unpacking why everyone (in media) is talking about it and what it means for the future of the Post and the bigger picture of journalistic ethics.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Ben Smith
Posted Monday, June 17, 2024 5:57 pm The Washington Post is shopping for a new brand.
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May 15, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Ben Smith
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2024 11:04 am A billionaire tech critic says he is mounting a bid to buy TikTok, the massive Chinese-owned social media app whose parent company faces U.S. government pressure to sell.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Ben Smith
Posted Monday, January 29, 2024 9:42 am On Sir Will Lewis’ 17th day as CEO of The Washington Post, Washington media celebrated him in its particularly small-town way: everyone who was anyone packed into the same room at the stately home of his interim predecessor Patty Stonesifer and her husband, the journalist Michael Kinsley. ... The day after his welcome party, we met at The Post’s offices in a sparsely-furnished conference room named for the late editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. Lewis...
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Moises Saman |Ben Smith
Magnum Photographer Moises Saman on the catalyst that was 9/11, learning the ropes in Afghanistan, his eight days captive in Abu Ghraib prison, surviving a helicopter crash, the myth of objectivity, trying to show a more nuanced picture, “the framing of the frame”, and facts, truth & questioning.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Ben Smith
When I realized the power of online journalism in the early aughts, I saw transparency as key to its promise. I’d watched Gawker X-ray New York’s media scene, and seen bloggers tear apart mainstream reporting on the 2004 presidential campaign. I found that I could drive the political conversation simply by telling my readers what I knew in plain English, when I knew it.
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Mar 6, 2023 | 
pewresearch.org | Jane Timm |David Bauder |Ben Smith |Peter Baker
This story, plus New Jersey’s last Washington correspondent just got laid off, a look into how the News Movement aims to reach young people with news on social media and more, all in today’s media headlines.
