Ben Smith will depart the New York Times and Justin Smith will depart Bloomberg Media as the two join forces to create a global news startup.
News of Justin Smith’s departure as CEO of Bloomberg Media was first reported by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. The Times followed that up with the announcement that Ben Smith, who was hired away from BuzzFeed to be the storied paper’s media columnist in 2020, would be joining him.
“There are 200 million people who are college educated, who read in English, but who no one is really treating like an audience, but who talk to each other and talk to us,” Ben Smith told the Times.