User: Trinity School, NYC

Date posted: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:51:05 GMT

Trinity School, NYC
about 6 years ago

Upper School News—Benjamin E. Smith ’95, Editor in Chief of BuzzFeed, was Today’s Community Time Speaker.

Ben Smith joined BuzzFeed in January 2012 and has subsequently built a newsroom of about 250 reporters and editors who cover over twenty content areas. Smith has increased the site’s breadth to include politics, business, long-form journalism, and investigative reporting, while increasing traffic to over 200 million unique monthly visitors.

Previously, Smith was senior political writer for Politico from 2007 to 2011. Prior to that, he worked for the "New York Daily News," the "New York Observer," and the political Web site Room Eight.