Traffic - Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

“Engrossing and suspenseful." The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith’s Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as

About the author

Ben Smith is the editor in chief of Semafor, a new global news company. He is the former media columnist for The New York Times and founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. Before that, he was among the first reporters to adapt the tools of the internet to political journalism for the Observer (New York), the New York Daily News, and Politico. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Smith
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2024
• EAN: 9780593299777
• ISBN: 978-0-593-29977-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries