What do you make of Semafor, Ross? I think most people were clowning on it when Ben Smith announced it - I mean, its premise is "what if there was a news source aimed at college-educated English speakers?" which... LOL. And this was back when having Sam Bankman-Fried as your big investor wasn't a kiss of death.
It does seem to me like the news equivalent of an American guy with a PhD who gets a job teaching English to sheiks' failsons in Dubai. But maybe there's a cunning plan I'm missing here.
I think we're very similar in age, and Buzzfeed definitely did represent an ideal for our age group when we were first entering the workforce: the credibility of being a writer—or writer by proxy—with just the perfect amount of corporateness so you could feel secure without feeling like you sold out.
What do you make of Semafor, Ross? I think most people were clowning on it when Ben Smith announced it - I mean, its premise is "what if there was a news source aimed at college-educated English speakers?" which... LOL. And this was back when having Sam Bankman-Fried as your big investor wasn't a kiss of death.
It does seem to me like the news equivalent of an American guy with a PhD who gets a job teaching English to sheiks' failsons in Dubai. But maybe there's a cunning plan I'm missing here.
I think we're very similar in age, and Buzzfeed definitely did represent an ideal for our age group when we were first entering the workforce: the credibility of being a writer—or writer by proxy—with just the perfect amount of corporateness so you could feel secure without feeling like you sold out.
Now do HuffPost