Editor-in-chief of @semafor. Former @nytimes media columnist, @buzzfeednews EIC. "Traffic." bsmith@semafor.com, Signal semaforben.90

Joined October 2007
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New: The NYT is reviewing Nick Kristof's columns after he failed to disclose ex donor ties in a series of columns. When Kristof returned to the paper after a failed bid for governor of Oregon, the NYT said he would disclose financial ties when writing about former donors.
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Can confirm that the inside story of blowing up an underwater gas pipeline is, in fact, a classic dad book.
How Washington fell for the Nor Stream Conspiracy, off @bopanc's great new book
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“The Nord Stream Conspiracy is a spectacular feat of investigative journalism” A kind and insightful @nytimes review of my new book
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SCOOP: The Washington Post’s curated opinion section on Friday removed two op-eds the paper recently republished by Scott Greer, a writer who years ago expressed racist and antisemitic views for an online white-supremacist publication. politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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.@jmart on how the clipping economy has elevated Jon Ossoff politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Spotted front row in the Claw at the White House UFC fight: Mark Zuckerberg and David Ellison.
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A senior USG official involved in the process of the MOU with Iran is denying a report being quoted from Iran media that Iran gets $12 billion up front. The USG official said, as officials in the administration have for weeks, that the agreement is all performance-based.
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RT @reihan: Interestingly, Bill Bradley, mastermind of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, was a Knick …
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NY-12 'The New York Editorial Board' recently spoke with each of the two leading Democratic candidates, discussing housing, immigration, AI, what separates them from each other, & more. -@AlexBores: nyeditorialboard.substack.co… -@MicahLasher: nyeditorialboard.substack.co…

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Every other city after winning a sports title: That was awesome. I hope we do it again New York writers after winning an NBA title: it was as if humanity rediscovered its hidden social potentiality, rescuing a lost Weltanschauung from the depths of neoliberal anomie
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Just biked from Columbia uptown to Prospect Heights in Brooklyn & must have passed 20 outdoor World Cup & Knicks watch parties. The city is awash in orange and blue. I’ve lived most of my life in NYC and can’t remember ever seeing the whole city this captivated. @bfurnas #KNICKS
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This is wrong and misses the point, @semaforben. If you believe Anthropic’s explanation that this is all just a big misunderstanding, then is this who you would go to in order to publicly clear up the misunderstanding with the Trump admin? Anthropic has every right to be run by genius leftists. I’m merely suggesting that by choosing this young lady, they are showing the world—and their investors—how little they understand about their “misunderstanding.” This isn’t some cheap political shot. It’s GR/crisis management 101, which Anthropic has failed to comprehend.
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Extent to which White House allies are signaling that this is a culture war issue, not a technical one, is striking
I'm told Anthropic is perplexed by the situation they are facing, so they've turned to @k8em0 to do their on-the-record rapid response. These people really just don't get it....
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As discussed here w/ @MichaelLangeNYC boy are we seeing another set of New York elections where the decision of the NYT to pull its editorial board out of local endorsements is quite important
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2/ @MichaelLangeNYC & I discussed @ZohranKMamdani’s & @AOC’s endorsements & other interesting themes, & dug into the NY-13, 7, 10, & 12 Democratic primaries. Listen via: -SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/gotham-gazett… -Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1gE… -Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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