From the International Herald Tribune to Semafor
My dissertation leads to a profile of media executive Justin Smith
In January, when I was simultaneously doing research for my PhD dissertation on the International Herald Tribune and writing up, one of my oral history interviewees, who began his career in global media at the IHT in the early 1990s, decided to leave his job as CEO of Bloomberg Media and begin a startup.
Some of the other people I was interviewing for m…