Ben Smith, Semafor founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Buzzfeed News, joins Offline to discuss what the shuttering of newsrooms at Buzzfeed and Vice means for the future of journalism. Ben’s new book, Traffic, traces the rise and fall of the digital media era. He and Jon talk about the personalities and publications that caused this phenomenon, the value of clickbait, and how the race to go viral was doomed from the start. Then, Jon and Max Fisher reunite to recap their week without iPhones and introduce next week’s Unplug Challenge.
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0:00 Cold Open and Intro
1:26 Ben Smith on the Rise and Fall of Digital Media
39:24 Ad Break
44:45 Jon and Max Fisher Discuss Their Week Without iPhones
01:07:15 Ad Break
01:11:20 The Next Unplug Challenge Begins
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