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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Buzz Killed: Who’s winning the viral news war?
Description: The news media is driven by clicks more than ever before. Who is winning the war for online attention? Brands like Vice and Gawker initially won the race – but are old-school papers dominating the online space again now? Ben Smith is the former editor-in-chief for Buzzfeed News, runs the news outlet Semafor, and is author of Traffic: Genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral. He joins Jacob Jarvis in The Bunker.
“If you were a journalist covering politics in the mid-’00s, the online space was really exciting.” – Ben Smith
“I don’t think...