Semafor

https://www.semafor.com/ link
Started: October 2022
Founders: Ben Smith,Justin B. Smith

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Semafor is a news website launched in 2022 with "the aim of boosting trust in global news"^[1]

Founders

It was founded in 2022 by Ben Smith, a former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News. When at Buzzfeed, Smith published the Steele dossier, a made-up "intelligence dossier" on Donald Trump as part of Russiagate.

Funding

Operations were initially supported by $25 million in "investment" funding, including from Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX.^[1] Semafor launched with approximately 60 employees^[2], an impressive budget for an area where it can be hard to make money.

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[deadline-1] 1.0 ^1.1 https://deadline.com/2022/10/semafor-ben-smith-justin-smith-1235147535/

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20230425170212/https://www.cjr.org/special_report/semafor-the-smiths.php

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