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Ben Smith

Semafor co-founder and editor-in-chief; former BuzzFeed News editor

Every podcast episode featuring Ben Smith that Attunex has found — 117 featured appearances across 43 shows, each with an on-device transcript and summary. Follow Ben in Attunex to get new appearances automatically.

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Updated 2026-09-07.

  1. Jessica Tarlov on being the lone Democrat at Fox, what she knows about Pete Hegseth, and why she defends her conservative colleagues
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-09-04
  2. Taylor Lorenz on the moral panic around kids and phones, and how she logs 17 hours of screen time
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-08-28
  3. Bad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341
    The Fifth Column
    2026-08-26
  4. Social media consultant Rachel Karten on the death of the follower, micro-dramas, and being “algorithmically ungovernable”
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-08-21
  5. It's about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith
    Decoder with Nilay Patel
    2026-08-17
  6. Kareem Rahma on building a talk show empire and the business behind his viral shows
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-08-07
  7. Vic Jacobi on building trust in NBA circles and the business of knowing everybody
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-07-31
  8. Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is more worried about your phone than your body
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-07-24
  9. Steve Hilton on the Murdochs, David Ellison, and conservative media’s California
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-07-17
  10. Katie Nolan on the sports gambling takeover, covering politics, and the slow return of the boys' club
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-07-15
  11. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on LLMs, fighting the bots, and why it’s good that you can't get famous on Reddit
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-07-03
  12. Alex Cooper on flipping "Call Her Daddy" into a media business and entering the creative agency space
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-06-26
  13. David Droga on being “the last Don Draper,” AI’s impact on creativity, and why the boldest ads are the easiest sells
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-06-19
  14. Eli Pariser on the end of the feed and how AI will change your morning routine
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-06-12
  15. The “Popcast” hosts on interviewing Taylor Swift, killing the written review, and whether literacy is over
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-06-05
  16. Bret Baier on golfing with Trump, his 2028 predictions, and making the case for civility
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-05-29
  17. Audie Cornish & Ari Shapiro’s journey from radio to podcasts — and what amateurs can learn from pros
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-05-22
  18. Joe Weisenthal on the business of business media and why AI won’t replace podcasters
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-05-19
  19. Flynn McGarry on growing up as a food prodigy and the waning power of restaurant reviews
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-05-15
  20. Angel Studios is crowdsourcing a "values-based" alternative to Hollywood
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-05-08
  21. Johnny Harris on building a journalism project that doesn't sell out
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-05-01
  22. WHCD, the Media, and Covering Trump (with Ben Smith)
    Stay Tuned with Preet
    2026-04-30
  23. Maverick Carter on building the future of sports media
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-04-27
  24. Patrick Radden Keefe on page-turning journalism, his own celebrity, and the humanity behind his work
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-04-17
  25. Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor + xAI, Codex Update | Kevin Hart & James Morrissey, Ben Smith, Jonathan Criss, Paul Scherer, Matan Grinberg, Akhil Voorakkara, Charlie Cheever, Victor Cardenas Codriansky, Theodor Marcu
    TBPN
    2026-04-16
  26. Bluesky COO Rose Wang on building a better social network
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-04-10
  27. Joanna Stern on quitting the Wall Street Journal and building a media business with AI
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-04-03
  28. Michael Lynton on the infamous Sony hack and learning from his mistakes
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-03-27
  29. The Twitch creators explaining the news to Gen Z
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-03-20
  30. Jeffrey Goldberg on "SignalGate," Trump's charm offensive, and why The Atlantic is winning
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-03-13
  31. Hasan Piker on streaming all day, his relationship with Zohran Mamdani, and the lefty media machine
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-03-06
  32. Deborah Turness on bias, the BBC, and the future of public media
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-02-27
  33. Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer on turning foreign policy into a podcast
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-02-20
  34. Marketing pro Tariq Hassan on how McDonald’s embraced its Donald Trump drive-thru moment
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-02-06
  35. And, This Is The Conversation The Trump Administration Tried To Cancel (Live From Davos!)
    This is Gavin Newsom
    2026-01-22
  36. Undersecretary Sarah Rogers on free speech, Europe’s tech crackdown, and the internet she misses
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-01-16
  37. Justin Smith and Ben Smith on Semafor's next chapter
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-01-15
  38. Ryan Lizza on Olivia Nuzzi, RFK Jr, and the Substack-ification of a scandal
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2026-01-09
  39. xAI’s $20B Raise, Semafor’s $30M Round, America’s Tech Decline | Ravi Gupta & Pat Grady, Vincenzo Landino, Nigel Vaz, Ben Smith, Jacob Rintamaki
    TBPN
    2026-01-07
  40. What actually mattered in 2025, with Janice Min and Emily Sundberg
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-12-26
  41. Instagram's Adam Mosseri on algorithms, AI slop, and how to beat TikTok
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-12-19
  42. Andy Richter on Late Night’s decline, “Dancing With the Stars,” and new media
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-12-12
  43. Warner Deal Drags, H200 Exports Resume, Meta AI Chafe Gate | Joe Weisenthal, Ben Smith, Matt Hicks, Stephen Schwartz, Saam Motamedi, Nicholas Kelez, Antoine Tessier, Filip Kaliszan
    TBPN
    2025-12-10
  44. Trump's old tricks fall flat from overuse in the face of hard realities
    The Briefing with Jen Psaki
    2025-12-10
  45. David Remnick on 100 years of the New Yorker, Netflix stardom, and why Trump was late to meet him
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-12-05
  46. Derek Thompson on why everything is becoming television, and whether democracy can survive it
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-11-14
  47. GQ Editor Will Welch on masculinity, celebrities, and staying cool as he ages
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-11-07
  48. Ken Burns on the future of PBS, the new age of media, and why documentaries will outlast TikTok
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-10-31
  49. The inside story of Sydney Sweeney's 'Great Jeans' — and why American Eagle ignored crisis comms
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-10-24
  50. Alison Roman on cookbooks, food influencers, and the surprising way AI is changing her recipes
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-10-10
  51. Trump's War on Blue America
    Pod Save America
    2025-10-07
  52. Trump's War on Blue America
    Pod Save America
    2025-10-07
  53. Blackbird Spyplane’s Jonah Weiner on Substack, resisting selling out, and Obama’s pants legacy
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-10-03
  54. Can MS survive without NBC? Inside CEO Mark Lazarus’ efforts to save cable’s great brands
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-09-26
  55. Malcolm Gladwell’s theories on podcasting, America, and Joe Rogan
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-09-19
  56. How to be elite in the age of populism, with the FT’s Roula Khalaf
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-09-05
  57. Don Lemon on Elon Musk, Chris Cuomo, and why YouTube is better than CNN
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-08-22
  58. Emily Maitlis on Epstein, Prince Andrew, and why American journalists can’t do interviews
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-08-01
  59. Director Ari Aster on ‘the movie that Twitter wrote’
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-07-18
  60. Steve Inskeep on NPR cuts, Iran, and radio’s place in the podcast era
    Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
    2025-06-27
  61. Das Erbe von Buzzfeed
    Blaupause Mentioned
    2023-05-07
  62. 🗞 Semafor, nuevo medio... ¿global?
    La Wikly Mentioned
    2022-10-20
  63. 🗞 ¿Hay hueco para otro medio global?
    La Wikly Mentioned
    2022-06-23
  64. ¿Por qué el New York Times es un peligro para el periodismo?
    La Sociedad del Contenido x Mauricio Cabrera Mentioned
    2020-03-03

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