BEN SMITH is the editor-in-chief of Semafor, a global news company, a former media columnist for The New York Times, and the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News. Before that, he was among the first reporters to adapt the tools of the internet to political journalism for The New York Observer, the New York Daily News, and Politico. Smith lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three children.
