👤 Ben Smith

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-09-06 – 2026-10-19
Claims per article
24
194 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,597
characters
Writes for Semafor.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
62%
Economy/Business
12%
Other
12%
Technology
12%
Most-tagged topics
AmericanNewsEuropeanSemaforAmericansAnthropicBrusselsCoefficient

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.06 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-06 · Semafor · Technology
Coefficient Giving’s CEO on Silicon Valley $40 billion philanthropy boom
19 outlets covered this event
2026-10-19 · Semafor · Economy/Business
Four years of Semafor
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-13 · Semafor · Politics
Why would anyone want this job?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-12 · Semafor · Politics
Hack reveals Netanyahu campaign's media ties
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-28 · Semafor · Politics
Euractiv relaunches as ‘Rapporteur’ in Brussels
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-28 · Semafor · Other
Water brand Liquid Death will make others’ ads
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-06 · Semafor
Coefficient Giving’s CEO on Silicon Valley $40 billion philanthropy boom
🔮 This “third wave of American philanthropy,” Stripe’s Nan Ransohoff wrote in May, will flow primarily from planned Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs expected later this year; if they come off as planned, she estimated they’ll generate an estimated $370 billion in new philanthropic assets. assertive
2026-09-15 · Semafor
AI loses a Dallas debate
🔮 The only solution, Allen said, would be the intervention of “big daddy gummint.” assertive
2026-09-21 · Semafor
France’s ‘school of happy globalization’ refocuses on security
🔮 Barring a cultural revolution, its current students will more or less be running the country from about 2045 to 2070. assertive
2026-09-28 · Semafor
Water brand Liquid Death will make others’ ads
🔮 “We don’t need” the money, Cessario said, noting the brand will do some $5 million in merch sales alone this year. assertive
2026-09-28 · Semafor
Euractiv relaunches as ‘Rapporteur’ in Brussels
🔮 The Brussels news organization known as Euractiv will relaunch Tuesday as Rapporteur, its CEO René Moerland told staff Monday, as competition intensifies for wall-to-wall coverage of EU politics. assertive
2026-10-12 · Semafor
Hack reveals Netanyahu campaign's media ties
🔮 He added that “any people I’ve covered over the years gave me drafts of speeches, saying, ‘This will be our campaign, what are your thoughts?’ assertive
2026-10-13 · Semafor
Why would anyone want this job?
🔮 On May 13, 2022, then-White House Middle East envoy Brett McGurk asked his boss how he liked his job. assertive
2026-10-19 · Semafor
Four years of Semafor
🔮 Did we think it would get this much traction, this fast? assertive
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