Ben Smith is departing as BuzzFeed‘s editor-in-chief for The New York Times, where he will serve as media columnist.
Smith helped build the editorial side of BuzzFeed since he joined the media platform from Politico, and the site has become a significant source of political coverage and investigative journalism. Perhaps more notably, BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier, the document that included unverified allegations about Donald Trump and his links to Russian interests.
At the Times, Smith will write the Media Equation column. Jim Rutenberg most recently had that assignment, having taken on the column after the death of David Carr in 2015.
BuzzFeed went through a round of layoffs last January, the third round of cuts that many saw as signs of trouble in the digital ad model.
In a note to staff, Smith wrote that the “newsroom and the company as a whole are now in a strong position.
Smith helped build the editorial side of BuzzFeed since he joined the media platform from Politico, and the site has become a significant source of political coverage and investigative journalism. Perhaps more notably, BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier, the document that included unverified allegations about Donald Trump and his links to Russian interests.
At the Times, Smith will write the Media Equation column. Jim Rutenberg most recently had that assignment, having taken on the column after the death of David Carr in 2015.
BuzzFeed went through a round of layoffs last January, the third round of cuts that many saw as signs of trouble in the digital ad model.
In a note to staff, Smith wrote that the “newsroom and the company as a whole are now in a strong position.
- 1/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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