Man Appears to Point Gun at Camera During Chicago TV News Crew’s Live Report on Gun Violence (Video) Dessi Gomez
Justin and Ben Smith Tease Their Media Startup’s Name With an International Riddle By Antoinette Siu | March 16, 2022 @ 2:33 PM Cofounder also says venture will compete with The Associated Press and Reuters
New York Times’ Ben Smith and Bloomberg Media’s Justin Smith to Launch Global News Startup By Lindsey Ellefson | January 4, 2022 @ 8:59 AM The Times announced its media columnist’s departure on Tuesday
Journalists Jeff Horwitz and Ben Smith Go Full Hillary Wearing Headbands on Sunday Talk Shows By Dessi Gomez | October 3, 2021 @ 12:41 PM ”All Sunday-show guests should be required to wear headbands from now on. Lawmakers included,“ Politico’s Blake Hounshell suggests
Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Claps Back at NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Bulls–t Ad Hominem Attack’ (Exclusive) By Sharon Waxman | September 27, 2021 @ 9:36 AM It’s a real media pissing match after Smith accused Ozy of inflating web and video numbers
How Tucker Carlson ‘Plays Both Sides,’ Ripping Media on TV While Being a ‘Supersecret Source’ Off Camera By Samson Amore | June 20, 2021 @ 7:56 PM New York Times media columnist Ben Smith details the Fox News host’s complicated, contradictory relationship with reporters
Student Says NY Times Reporter Donald McNeil Jr. Told Her on Peru Trip: ‘Racism Is Over’ By Lindsey Ellefson | February 15, 2021 @ 7:32 AM McNeil departed the paper earlier this month after reports he said the N-word on a trip with high schoolers
Newsmax Host Rails Against NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Big, Comfortable and Dumb’ By J. Clara Chan | November 30, 2020 @ 5:48 PM Smith’s Sunday column concluded that Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy thinks his audience is ”stupid“
Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy Thinks His Pro-Trump Audience Is ‘Stupid,’ NY Times Columnist Says By Lindsey Ellefson | November 30, 2020 @ 10:43 AM ”In this day and age, people want something that tends to affirm their views and opinions,“ Ruddy tells Smith
Kara Swisher, Ben Smith and Cheo Hodari Coker on How the Coronavirus ‘Accelerated’ Changes in Media (Video) By Lindsey Ellefson | September 22, 2020 @ 5:13 PM TheGrill 2020: Smith and Swisher agreed that 2020 has expedited change and dissent in media
Kara Swisher, Ben Smith, Cheo Hodari Coker and Sharon Waxman Kick Off TheGrill 2020 With ‘The Year It All Changed – Media Disrupted’ By Emily Vogel | September 11, 2020 @ 11:00 AM Leading media and entertainment observers will get candid about the state of the industry at TheWrap’s annual event
Inside the Challenge to Media Leadership and the Debate Over Journalism’s Values By Sharon Waxman | June 15, 2020 @ 12:21 PM A wave of editorial resignations and pushback on a Wrap op-ed reflect a division over the shared norms of journalism
CNN Head Jeff Zucker Teases Run for NYC Mayor in 2021 By Lindsey Ellefson | June 1, 2020 @ 7:59 AM Zucker tells NY Times he likes ”a challenge“
Woody Allen Rips Son Ronan Farrow’s Journalism as ‘Shoddy,’ Questions ‘Credibility’ By Umberto Gonzalez | May 29, 2020 @ 5:25 PM ”But now it’s come out that his journalism has not been so ethical or honest,“ Allen told the Telegraph in an interview on Friday
TheWrap-Up Podcast: Holland Taylor Talks ‘Hollywood’ and a Look at How #ReleaseTheSnyderCut Came to Life By Daniel Goldblatt | May 21, 2020 @ 6:30 PM Episode 6: Plus, Ben Smith’s scathing takedown of Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow Responds to Searing NY Times Piece: ‘I Stand by My Reporting’ By Lindsey Ellefson | May 18, 2020 @ 11:25 AM He responded to media critic Ben Smith in a series of tweets