Ben King

Art Director

[Ben King @brknyc]

Status News hosted a freedom of the press-themed WHCD kickoff party in DC, and I designed the invite:

[Ben King @brknyc]

You can get one of the 250 shirts here: https://t.co/eYyvezjXDg

[Ben King @brknyc]

Designed this limited edition shirt for Status News, which coincides with the WHCD. 50% of proceeds will be donated to the legal defense fund of @rcfp, who provide pro-bono support to journalists facing legal threats for doing their jobs.

[Ben King @brknyc]

The Ben Folds Five is my favo(u)rite band! cc @JenHeuer @jenhillustrator 🛒

[Ben King @brknyc]

Some new illustrations / logo treatment from me in this great investigation series:

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

#CaspianCabals, an ICIJ-led investigation with 20+ media partners, is based on tens of thousands of pages of confidential emails, oil industry records, court documents and regulatory filings and hundreds of interviews.

Coming to you this evening! Sign up: https://t.co/hC7I2Lm1pa

[Ben King @brknyc]

hire Roger! Hire him now!

[Roger Braunstein @partlyhuman]

Just lost my job to AI! ✌️ Anyone looking for a full stack principal engineer with 20+ years of experience, multiple publications, and a let's-make-it-happen attitude?

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

Jeremy is fantastic, tremendous hire. I just need you to all be aware his brother wrote the 2010 recession pop banger “Like a G6” (really, this is true)

[Ben King @brknyc]

@EricWolfson You had to go with the Boston hat

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

How much does Venmo hate you having privacy? So much that they wouldn’t allow private contacts despite constant complaints until finally in 2021 @RMac18 used public Friends to find Joe Biden’s personal account, and finally Venmo caved https://t.co/8uKQfRh5nf

[Ben King @brknyc]

Here's my brother (who is much less cool and not nearly as good looking) getting Fox5 DC hosts sloshed this morning. Good job @Obes64! https://t.co/Q2gACcxKcl

[Ali Jadallah 𓂆 @alijadallah66]

Palestinians walk out of the rubble, covered in dust after the Israeli attack on Abu Aisha family house in Deir al Balah, Gaza on June 14, 2024. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

[Ben King @brknyc]

* a lone trumpet plays a somber, minor key version of "Old Town Road" *

[John Paczkowski @JohnPaczkowski]

Perplexity’s knock off of our reporting feels like a crystallization of the "Can journalism survive AI?" convo. The company took our paywalled work, without our permission, and competitively broadcast it across web, video, mobile — as though it were itself a media outlet.

[John Paczkowski @JohnPaczkowski]

Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by @perplexity_ai . It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views. #zeroclick https://t.co/qZamti9E83

[Faux Canada @FauxCanadaMusic]

Our new EP, “Vox Humana” is out now! 5 songs about the human condition through the filter of 00’s indie! https://t.co/WKfHu5VAA5

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

I messaged Adolfo as soon as I saw this news, but let me just say publicly that media organizations making dumb moves is not news, sadly, but laying off Adolfo in an election year is among the dumber moves out there. He is an incredible reporter and a good person. Hire him.

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Mixed Signals already in the charts ... subscribe here:

https://t.co/h6ZRdLWd4P

[Ben King @brknyc]

Worked with the talented @tinasmithdesign on this update to the Bridgerton glossary for @NetflixTudum: https://t.co/HB9Gsf91yZ

[Ben King @brknyc]

"@markseibel tells stories" were always the most delightful times in the BFN newsroom

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

Happy retirement to @markseibel, a brilliant, exacting editor whose chaotic energy matched my own and never thought twice about launching me (young, inexperienced & female) into a wild national security beat.

Wish all reporters were as lucky!Now let’s bully him to write a memoir