{"id":9815,"date":"2023-04-29T06:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/traffic-review-ben-smith-on-bannon-buzzfeed-and-where-it-all-went-wrong\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T06:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:37:34","slug":"traffic-review-ben-smith-on-bannon-buzzfeed-and-where-it-all-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/traffic-review-ben-smith-on-bannon-buzzfeed-and-where-it-all-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic review: Ben Smith on Bannon, BuzzFeed and where it all went wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now a co-founder of Semafor, formerly of Politico, BuzzFeed and the New York Times, the author expertly pulls readers in<\/p>\n<p>Ben Smith is a willing passenger on the rollercoaster also known as the internet. He reported for Politico, was founding editor-in-chief at BuzzFeed News and did a stint as a columnist for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ben-smith\">the New York Times<\/a>. Then he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/10\/18\/2022\/welcome-to-semafor\">co-founded Semafor<\/a>. Graced with a keen eye and sharp wit, he has seen and heard plenty.<\/p>\n<p>People and businesses crash, burn and sometimes rise again. BuzzFeed News is no more. The New York Times trades 75% higher than five years ago. Tucker Carlson is off the air. Roger Ailes is dead. Twitter ain\u2019t what it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral is <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/traffic-genius-rivalry-and-delusion-in-the-billion-dollar-race-to-go-viral-ben-smith\/18784187?ean=9780593299753\">published in the US <\/a>by Penguin Random House<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/apr\/29\/ben-smith-traffic-book-review-buzzfeed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/887259e1c1a8e6ce0e3063b45a50d9923b0721f9\/0_0_5000_3001\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8000a8077f924af4925fc16a8ad77cbc\" title=\"Traffic review: Ben Smith on Bannon, BuzzFeed and where it all went wrong\" \/>Now a co-founder of Semafor, formerly of Politico, BuzzFeed and the New York Times, the author expertly pulls readers in<br \/>\nBen Smith is a willing passenger on the rollercoaster also known as the internet. He reported for Politico, was founding editor-in-chief at BuzzFeed News and did a stint as a columnist for the New York Times. Then he co-founded Semafor. Graced with a keen eye and sharp wit, he has seen and heard plenty.<br \/>\nPeople and businesses crash, burn and sometimes rise again. BuzzFeed News is no more. The New York Times trades 75% higher than five years ago. Tucker Carlson is off the air. Roger Ailes is dead. Twitter ain\u2019t what it used to be.<br \/>\nTraffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now a co-founder of Semafor, formerly of Politico, BuzzFeed and the New York Times, the author expertly pulls readers in Ben Smith is a willing passenger on the rollercoaster also known as the internet. He reported for Politico, was founding editor-in-chief at BuzzFeed News and did a stint as a columnist for the New York &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/traffic-review-ben-smith-on-bannon-buzzfeed-and-where-it-all-went-wrong\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traffic review: Ben Smith on Bannon, BuzzFeed and where it all went wrong<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}