An Insider's Take on the Downfall of Mid-Aughts Digital Media
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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If we're in one era of content that goes viral online, we're at the end of another.
On Today's Show:
Ben Smith, editor in chief of Semafor, former media columnist for The New York Times, and the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral (Penguin Press, 2023), traces the rise and fall of digital media upstarts like HuffPost, Gawker and BuzzFeed.