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Conference advisers should not influence the journalism
Conference advisers should not influence the journalism
Smith says involving prominent newsmakers in conference advisory groups helps build an event community but maintains that Semafor's journalism and interviews remain editorially independent from those advisers.
- Speaker
- Ben Smith
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- 29:43
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