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Ben Smith
Media Columnist, The New York Times
Ben Smith is a media columnist who joined The New York Times in 2020 after eight years as founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. Before that, he covered politics for Politico, The New York Daily News, The New York Observer and The New York Sun.