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Ben Smith’s Semafor Project Echoes The Foreign Correspondent Network Model Used By CEN

This archived screenshot preserves the “About Semafor” page for the news organisation co-founded by Ben Smith after he left BuzzFeed, showing Semafor presenting itself as a global news platform with reporting teams and correspondents across multiple regions, including Africa, Europe, the Gulf, Asia, Latin America, Washington and Silicon Valley. The screenshot is significant because Semafor’s model echoes important parts of the international correspondent and source-network approach used by CEN, the same type of foreign-news structure that BuzzFeed had previously criticised when attacking CEN’s role in supplying viral international material to British publishers. The item helps document the later professional irony in the evidence chain: after overseeing BuzzFeed’s attack on a small agency built around a global network of foreign contributors, Smith later became involved in building a media project whose own pitch relied heavily on international reporting presence, global perspective and distributed foreign-news expertise.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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