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    25: Ben Smith on TRAFFIC

    25: Ben Smith on TRAFFIC

    FromBooked Up with Jen Taub

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    25: Ben Smith on TRAFFIC

    FromBooked Up with Jen Taub

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    66 minutes
    Released:
    May 14, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    This week, Jen’s guest is Ben Smith, author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. This hot new book takes a close look at the people and the patterns behind the click-bait-journalism-world that helped inflate Donald Trump but also gave us a renewed faith in humanity with an endless supply of baby-animal rescue videos.

    You know Ben from his role as the founding editor-in-chief for BuzzFeed News where he released the Steele Dossier to the world. Today, Ben is the editor-in-chief of Semafor, a new global news organization that launched last year. Just before that he was the media columnist for the New York Times. Jen and Ben recorded this interview just before Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced plans to shutter Buzzfeed News.


    Contact Booked Up:

    You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to: 

    BOOKED UP 
    P.O. BOX 147
    NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061

    Get More from Ben Smith
    Twitter | Website | Author of TRAFFIC

    Get More from Jen Taub:
    Twitter | Follow the Money Substack | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY 
    Released:
    May 14, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Booked Up with Jen Taub features intimate interviews with nonfiction authors. Jen’s guests include writers of current bestsellers and beloved backlist books. Conversations cover love, money, politics, early dreams, writing habits, reading tastes, procrastination techniques, self-doubt, and news of the day. Creator and host, Jen Taub is a law professor, advocate, and author. Her nonfiction books include BIG DIRTY MONEY (Viking 2020) and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES (Yale Press 2014). She focuses on “follow the money” matters— promoting transparency and opposing corruption. Jen’s favorite poem is Prufrock (and yes she knows that Eliot held abhorrent views. She contains multitudes and can separate the dancer from the dance.) Taub was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2019 at Harvard Law School and is now a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. A former associate general counsel at Fidelity Investments, she is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.