“Nick Denton’s core insight: in the newspaper era, the best stories were sometimes the ones reporters told one another in bars, rather than the ones they printed.”
Quotes by Ben Smith
“Donald Trump was made for Facebook. So was another type of content: attacks on Hillary Clinton.”
“Trump wasn’t doing anything to game Facebook. He simply was what Facebook liked.”
Ben Smith
Ben Smith was an influential American journalist known for his role as the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, a news website launched in early 2022. Prior to this venture, he gained recognitio...