Ben Smith
Ben Smith is a journalist who doubles as editor-in-chief for BuzzFeed. Before joining the company, Smith worked for a wide range of news organizations including the New York Sun and the Wall Street Journal Europe. He gained his position in December 2011 has been in it ever since. For the past seven years, Smith has been working to strengthen investigative journalism in the organization. That field is similar to what he worked in prior to this position so it is what he is most comfortable doing. His audience consists of people interested in crime and fraud stories but his viewer base can be expanded to people who read dozens of articles on the website. Because he is the editor-in-chief, so many of the articles published on the site have to go through him first prior to being published.