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Ben Smith (journalist): Works, Career & Companies

Benjamin Eli Smith (November 4, 1976) is an American journalist who is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, a news website he formed with Justin Smith in early 2022. He was previously a media columnist at The New York Times from 2020 to 2022. From 2011 to 2020, he was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.

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Ben Smith (journalist) topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Career and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Ben Smith (journalist).

Related topics
54
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
60
Extracted relationships
7
Related term clusters
24
Bridge connections
60

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Career · 25 topics
Early life and education · 15 topics
Overview · 6 topics
Recognition · 5 topics
Personal life · 2 topics
Works · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Occupation
Journalist
Education
Yale University (BA)
Born
Benjamin Eli Smith (1976-11-04) November 4, 1976 (age 50) New York, New York, U.S.
Children
3
Parents
Robert S. Smith (father) · Dian Goldston Smith (mother)
Years active
1999–present

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Overview

Early life and education

Career

Recognition

Personal life

Works

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Ben Smith (journalist) connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ben Smith (journalist) shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ben Smith (journalist) → Dian Goldston Smith (mother), Robert S. Smith (father) Another extracted example is Ben Smith (journalist) → Benjamin Eli Smith (1976-11-04) November 4, 1976 (age 50) New York, New York, U.S.. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ben Smith (journalist)

Top relations

Parents · 2
Ben Smith (journalist) → Dian Goldston Smith (mother), Robert S. Smith (father)
Born · 1
Ben Smith (journalist) → Benjamin Eli Smith (1976-11-04) November 4, 1976 (age 50) New York, New York, U.S.
Children · 1
Ben Smith (journalist) → 3
Education · 1
Ben Smith (journalist) → Yale University (BA)
Occupation · 1
Ben Smith (journalist) → Journalist
Years active · 1
Ben Smith (journalist) → 1999–present

Important terminology

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Important terminology

smith new news york buzzfeed times journalism media semafor 2022 2020 also editor-in-chief politico journalist side reporting reported would daily

Ben Smith (journalist) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 7 structured relationships around Ben Smith (journalist). Examples in this analysis include Ben Smith (journalist) → Born → Benjamin Eli Smith (1976-11-04) November 4, 1976 (age 50) New York, New York, U.S. and Ben Smith (journalist) → Children → 3. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ben Smith (journalist)BornBenjamin Eli Smith (1976-11-04) November 4, 1976 (age 50) New York, New York, U.S.1.00infobox
Ben Smith (journalist)Children31.00infobox
Ben Smith (journalist)EducationYale University (BA)1.00infobox
Ben Smith (journalist)OccupationJournalist1.00infobox
Ben Smith (journalist)ParentsRobert S. Smith (father)1.00infobox
Ben Smith (journalist)ParentsDian Goldston Smith (mother)1.00infobox
Ben Smith (journalist)Years active1999–present1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Ben Smith (journalist) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Semafor, Education and York. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Ben Smith (journalist)
    • Semafor
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    • York
    • Journalism
    • Justin
    • Would
    • News
    • Politico
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    • Times
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    • January
    • Daily
    • Side
    • Politico
    • Semafor
    • Venture
  • ben smith (journalist)
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    • Journalism
    • Justin
    • Zagare
    • Would
    • Daily
    • News
    • Politico
    • Also
    • Company
  • buzzfeed news
    • Buzzfeed
    • News
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    • Smith
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    • Semafor
    • Editor-in-chief
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    • Reported
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    • Education
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    • Semafor
    • Zagare
    • Education
    • News
    • Politico
    • Times
    • Buzzfeed
    • Eli
    • Announced
    • Column
    • Editor-in-chief
  • justin b. smith
    • Semafor
    • York
    • Journalism
    • Announced
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    • News
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ben Smith (journalist), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ben Smith (journalist) with Career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Ben Smith (journalist) — Career · splits 35 ⟂ 26
Ben Smith (journalist) — Early life and education · splits 45 ⟂ 16
Ben Smith (journalist) — Overview · splits 54 ⟂ 7
Ben Smith (journalist) — Recognition · splits 55 ⟂ 6
Ben Smith (journalist) — Personal life · splits 58 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ben Smith (journalist)

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples7
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ben Smith (journalist) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Career & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ben Smith (journalist) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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