Ben Smith

Ben Smith, who wrote his final blog post for POLITICO today, sitting on the steps of New York's City Hall, where he has long blogged about politics. (Photo: Axel Dupeux, for Adweek)  Ben Smith moves on. Iowa media gets its moment in t...

My colleague Keach Hagey notes Fox News' odd reluctance to comment for a Washington Post story that (mostly) portrays it as a fair and balanced news organization, which is its slogan. "There’s little question that Fox is an important n...

Former Edwards aide Jonathan Prince noted recently that Rick Santorum's path this year seems a lot like John Edwards's near-miss 2004 bid, in which he worked Iowa for months with no evident results, then surged into second place at the last m...

Paul Farhi has the latest in a series of stories reflecting Fox's course correction since the glory days of the Beck era: But just days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus takes place, there’s not much evidence to suggest that Fo...

The latest email from pro-Gingrich Super PAC Winning Our Future:  FEAR OF NEWT STUNNER! In field of Seven — 45% of all advertising in Iowa was directed at the former Speaker In what must be one of the most stunning political statis...

The Huffington Post landed an exclusive interview with Mitt Romney yesterday, its first-ever with the Republican presidential candidate and a significant step in its move away from the liberal political identity it had during its first presidential c...

Jeremy Gaines, vice president of communications at MSNBC, writes in to explain why his network's anchors are only now disclosing NBC's business ties to Bain Capital, the buyout firm co-founded by Mitt Romney: Given Bain'...