Semafor
Is Puck the future of (more) newsletters?
In an age in which journalism’s traditional models have been stretched to breaking point, those in the industry…
30 July 2026
PODCAST: Semafor’s Ben Smith on ‘post-traffic’ news
Few understand better than ex-BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith the attraction of scale. But he saw the “terminal decline” beginning for the web and is keeping Semafor firmly rooted in quality over quantity, and direct audience connections.
21 April 2026
Semafor: back-to the-future winner
Semafor this week celebrated its third anniversary with performance stats (and our own estimates) that underline its distinction…
24 October 2025
How Semafor events fund global news
It's less than three years since former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and journalist Ben Smith (ex BuzzFeed,…
21 March 2025
A new model for profitable news?
Its been another week to remind us of the follies of erstwhile news pioneers BuzzFeed and Vice which…
2 February 2024
Gen Z News Movement steps up
The News Movement (TNM), the London-based social media-news start-up launched in 2021 by former Dow Jones CEO Will…
3 February 2023