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AI Summary
- Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith discusses the end of the social media age for news and the collapse of platforms as viable distribution channels for journalism
- Smith's new book 'Traffic' examines the rise and fall of social-driven media through Gawker and BuzzFeed, documenting how Facebook's algorithm changes disrupted the model
- The episode explores where journalists build audiences now, how news distribution has fundamentally shifted, and what comes next in media business models