![]() ![]() The company, Joe Kahn, its executive editor, is “now reinstituting a clear sense of itself”. “A lot of those people are gone,” Smith thinks. And suddenly you’ve hired a bunch of lunatics who disagree with you and each other, and you are trying to run an institution that way. The title had “absorbed all of these people and ideas from a bunch of different institutions,” Smith said, “who had actually come up as critics of the New York Times, who didn’t really agree with its way of journalism, and also didn’t agree with each other. That summer social justice movements took hold across American newsrooms, boardrooms, classrooms – nowhere more so than at the New York Times. It started in 2020, thinking, ‘What was that?’” Traffic, he said, was an attempt “to report out this whole era we just lived through. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.At Semafor, which this week raised $19m, he is an owner. At the Times, Smith was only an employee. In America’s highly developed media market, top journalists now expect to own equity in the sites through which they publish. In doing so, he has sought to ride the latest shift in journalism: the proliferation of private media. Yet Smith soon left the Times, setting up Semafor, a new digital media play. Smith broke big stories at the Times, exposing the news and entertainment website Ozy as a scam whose traffic was chimerical, and alleging errors and omissions in the reporting of Ronan Farrow (who at the time was being heralded as America’s foremost investigative journalist he said he stood by his reporting). In 2020, as BuzzFeed struggled, he joined the New York Times as its media columnist. In 2011 he was the founding editor of BuzzFeed News, the site which helped reinvent, for good or ill, the way news was covered in the 2010s. They have to investigate.There have been three major trends in the past decade of media and Ben Smith, 46, has been a part of them all. Pressed by Miami attorney Roy Black as to why he didn’t notify the FBI, Gubarev responded, “It’s not my duty. In a lengthy deposition, XBT boss Gubarev acknowledged that Alexander Zhukov, indicted last November for the Methbot virus, the largest-ever alleged scheme to steal video advertising dollars, paid his company $200,000 a month to be hosted on servers in the Dallas area before Webzilla shut them off in December 2016. And even if they were, the response said, “just because something occurred in the past does not mean it is related to current events.” But Friday the company shared its rebuttal of Ferrante’s report, saying that the actual IP addresses provided by the DNC were not IP addresses belonging to XBT or Webzilla. XBT has maintained throughout that it isn’t responsible for what users of its services do. But he said the link found with the XBT subsidiary’s IP address “was created with the intent to steal John Podesta’s email credentials as part of the cyber operations launched against the DNC and Democratic Party leadership.” Ferrante, now a cyber sleuth for FTI Consulting, stopped short of directly connecting XBT to the links used in the phishing. ![]()
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