Ben Smith

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Katie Herzog |Ben Smith

Fifteen years ago, I was—as usual—in between jobs. I’d recently dropped out of graduate school and had been fired from one entry level job or another (either barista or receptionist, possibly both). I spent most of my time not looking for work, exactly, but thinking of looking for work. I also drank a lot.

May 7, 2024 | presswatchers.org | Dan Froomkin |Ben Smith

Joe Kahn, after two years in charge of the New York Times newsroom, has learned nothing. He had an extraordinary opportunity, upon taking over from Dean Baquet, to right the ship: to recognize that the Times was not warning sufficiently of the threat to democracy presented by a second Trump presidency. But to Kahn, democracy is a partisan issue and he’s not taking sides. He made that clear in an interview with obsequious former employee Ben Smith, now the editor of Semafor.

Nov 26, 2023 | politico.com | Ben Smith

Summers -- increasingly the new face, replacing Hank Paulson, of government economic action -- writes Congressional leaders with demands for oversight of the bailout funds Congress is authorizing Obama to spend -- putting Obama in the position of reformer, and aligning him with a skeptical public.

Oct 12, 2023 | politico.com | Ben Smith

The police have named a suspect in the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner. A person under that name has a YouTube account that includes suggestions of anti-government political views.

Oct 12, 2023 | politico.com | Ben Smith

Sherrod Brown notes that Hitler and Stalin were also anti-union.