NewsFeed with @BuzzFeedBen

NewsFeed with @BuzzFeedBen episodes:

• 07.29.2017

  13: @redsteeze

  Stephen Miller, who writes under the name @redsteeze and isn't to be confused with the White House adviser of the same name, is among the most effective of the self-appointed public editors who harry journalists on Twitter. (He also got...

  
• 07.16.2017

  12: Journalism In Russia's Shadow

  A conversation with Ivan Kolpakov, editor in chief of the Russian news site Meduza, and Inga Springe, a founder of the non-profit investigative journalism site Re:Baltica, about reporting on Russia from just across the border in Latvia, what it's like...

  
• 07.02.2017

  11: Zeynep Tufekci

  Nobody has thought more about the intersection of media, technology, and politics than Zeynep Tufekci. Her new book Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, is about the incredible promise and the real weaknesses of these...

  
• 06.18.2017

  10: Benjamin Wittes

  What a student of executive power and friend of James Comey makes of Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller's investigation, and the first 147 days of Trump's presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 06.10.2017

  9: Bill de Blasio

  Ben interviews New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on stage at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn. They talk about de Blasio's relationship with the press — and its parallels with Donald Trump's approach to dealing with the media —...

  
• 06.04.2017

  8: Why Have A Public Editor When Twitter Will Do It For Free?

  Margaret Sullivan, the longest-serving of the New York Times public editors, talks about the awkwardness of being the paper's in-house critic, the process of choosing to elevate some criticisms over others, and why — when she was chief editor of...

  
• 05.21.2017

  7: Al Sharpton

  The Reverend Al Sharpton, whose career was shaped by the same New York tabloid media that created Donald Trump, said Trump called him soon after the election to praise his analysis on MSNBC of Trump's New York roots. He also...

  
• 05.19.2017

  6: David Folkenflik on Roger Ailes

  When Roger Ailes' wife Elizabeth sent a statement on her husband's death to The Drudge Report instead of Fox News it was, according to NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik, "the final act of Roger Ailes' revenge" against the network he...

  
• 05.07.2017

  5: Lydia Polgreen

  "I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story." The new editor-in-chief of the renamed HuffPost says she's positioning the...

  
• 04.30.2017

  4: Maggie Haberman & Glenn Thrush

  "Is it strange to be that far inside the head of the President of the United States?" "I try not to think about it." The two New York Times reporters on the Trump beat talk about obsessing over Donald Trump,...

  
• 04.23.2017

  3: Brian Stelter

  “I’m afraid, but I’m more curious. What I love about this moment, a few weeks before our first child is born, is wondering how it’s going to change our lives, and not having any idea. I'm wondering how it’s going...

  
• 04.09.2017

  2: Charlie Warzel

  "You can upvote it all the way into Donald Trump's mouth." Ben talks to BuzzFeed tech reporter Charlie Warzel about how Twitter and Reddit trolling found its way into the White House briefing room. Read more by Charlie Warzel: - Here's How...

  
• 04.05.2017

  1: David Axelrod

  The intersection of politics, tech, and media is where all the action is. Since the 2016 election, politics and the media business have become inseparable. We’ve elected an entertainment figure as President of the United States. The  media political conversation...