What Was Digital Media? ft. Ben Smith and Taylor Lorenz

​We invited Ben Smith and Taylor Lorenz to talk about the last decade of digital media—how they saw it happen, and what might come next.

​Ben and Taylor are two of the savviest media thinkers there are: they’ve both been tenured reporters, but have also adapted their careers seamlessly to the age of Twitter, Substack, and the journalist-as-influencer.

​Ben, previously a media columnist at the Times and editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, is now running his own news venture, Semafor. Taylor is currently a technology columnist at The Washington Post after writing for the The New York Times and The Atlantic. Both also have new books out this year: Ben’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral came out in May, and Taylor’s Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet in October.

​The conversation will be hosted by Jasmine Sun, co-editor-in-chief of Reboot and a product manager at Substack. For our take on Traffic and more events like this, sign up for Reboot here.