Recent and archived work by Ben Smith for The New York Times
The feminist site Jezebel presaged major changes in the way America talks about race and gender and pioneered the fusion of audience, writers, politics and identity.
By Ben Smith
The network’s top-rated host and its president were forced out following ethical lapses, an office romance and a letter from a lawyer for “Jane Doe.”
By Emily Steel, Jodi Kantor, Michael M. Grynbaum, James B. Stewart and John Koblin
The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings.
By Ben Smith
“I have zero desire to be involved in politics,” says Brandon Brown, the NASCAR driver at the center of the “Let’s Go, Brandon!” meme.
By Ben Smith
With “Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay makes a star-studded allegorical satire that shows the news media whistling past the climate-change graveyard.
By Ben Smith
One of them was sponsored by a contentious public relations executive, Ronn Torossian.
By Ben Smith and Dana Rubinstein
It’s the most successful video app in the world. Our columnist has obtained an internal company document that offers a new level of detail about how the algorithm works.
By Ben Smith
Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer.
By Ben Smith
Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, stars of a brand of conservatism that has fallen out of fashion, decide they’ve had enough.
By Ben Smith
A clash over culture and politics comes to World, a groundbreaking journalistic institution that covers evangelical Christians.
By Ben Smith