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Ben Smith
Ben is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor. He's the former media columnist of the New York Times and was previously the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News. Ben has covered American politics for more than a decade at Politico and the New York Daily News, among other outlets, and launched a number of political blogs.