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Ben Smith's One Neat Trick for Going Viral
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPhoto: Brian Finke In the mid-2000s, the news media underwent rapid change, beginning a transformation from stodgy to spicy. Social media networks and...
How The Race to Go Viral Killed Digital Media
Esquire via Yahoo News· 12 months agoHow The Race to Go Viral Killed Digital MediaSarah Kim The best way to understand Ben Smith is to understand what he was doing in the midst of our...
Jezebel Is Dead. Let Me Tell You How Bizarre Working There Was in the Beginning.
Slate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoI stumbled into a job as the second employee of the theretofore-not-yet-named feminist website...
Ben Smith’s Book ‘Traffic’ Getting Docuseries Treatment From Atlas Media
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSemafor founder Ben Smith’s book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race...
Fortune favors the books: Our editors’ favorite non-fiction of 2023 pulls back the curtain on a year...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoSo much (digital) ink has been spilled about 2023 marking the end of a certain era of the internet:...
Neetzan Zimmerman’s last hurrah
Semafor via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe News Months before the launch of The Messenger’s news website earlier in May, its newly minted Chief Growth Officer, Neetzan Zimmerman, sought to...
Jezebel, After Getting Shut Down, Acquired by Pop-Culture Publication Paste Magazine
Variety via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJezebel is getting resurrected, under new management. Three weeks ago, the former owner of the...
Former Deadspin owner G/O Media puts The Onion up for sale: source
NY Post via Yahoo News· 1 month agoG/O Media, the struggling company that recently sold Deadspin, is shopping popular humor site The...
Ben Smith Talks Digital Media’s Death Dive: ‘You Could Feel That Moment Coming to an End’ | Video
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe former New York Times media columnist speaks to WaxWord about his new book, "Traffic," his new...
Gawker Sold to Founder of Singapore’s Caldecott Music Group: ‘It Has the Opportunity for...
Variety via Yahoo News· 6 months agoGet ready for Gawker 3.0: The twice-shuttered blog site has a new owner, who plans to bring the...
