New York Times’ Ben Smith Talks Slack, Newsroom Politics, And Tech Regulation

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As the Media Equation columnist at The New York Times, Ben Smith is covering an industry going through transformation and turbulence. And as the former editor in chief of BuzzFeed News — a place I worked until this June — he lived that change while managing a newsroom of reporters who lived online in a VC funded media company. In this week’s edition of the Big Technology Podcast, I caught up with Smith for a discussion focused on how tech is changing journalism, what media companies can do to connect with people that have shut them out, and where big tech regulation may lead.

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1:05.5	plug in a court that I needed to plug in and the following podcast recorded almost entirely
1:10.5	through my AirPods,
1:12.0	which was obviously less than ideal. But I found this discussion with Ben Smith to be so
1:16.7	fascinating that instead of scrapping it, I figured, let's just publish it. And, you know, I'll let you
1:21.8	know in advance. Please forgive me for the few times that it's going to sound like I'm underwater,
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