Who Is Liena Zagare: Ben Smith Wife? Everything To Learn About Journalist Wife

Learn more about the investment analyst Liena Zagare, journalist Ben Smith’s wife. Since when were they married?

Benjamin Eli Smith is a journalist from the United States who has been a media columnist for The New York Times since January 2020. He was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News from 2011 until 2020.

Ben Smith Wife: Liena Zagare Bio

Ben has been happily married to Liena Zagare since 2002.

Liena Zagare is one year older than Ben Smith. She is 46 years old as of 2021.

Zagare received her bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics. She works as an investment analyst at the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank branch, in Warsaw.

Her mother is the chairperson of the anatomy department at Riga’s Academy of Medicine.

Liena worked as a publisher in Ditmas Park Blog from March 2007 to July 2011. She created one of New York City’s most popular and financially successful neighborhood blogs, with a massive following of local readers and a substantial and rising local display advertising revenue.

She is currently working as an editor at Corner Media Inc since March 2012.

Ben Smith Net Worth 

Ben’s net worth is estimated to be $897,691.

In 2020-2021, Ben’s net worth increased considerably.

Since January 2020, Ben has been a media columnist for The New York Times. As a result, Ben has accumulated a considerable income throughout his career. 

Ben Smith Children 

Ben and Liena live together in Brooklyn with their three children. 

Their children’s name has not been revealed yet due to high confidentiality. 

Biography Of The Journalist

Ben was born in New York on November 4, 1976. He was raised in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

He was born to author Dian and attorney Robert S. Smith, a New York Court of Appeals associate judge. His mother was a Democrat and a Jew. His father was a Christian and a staunch conservative.

On the Upper West Side of New York City, he attended Trinity School. In 1999, he received a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University, where he also wrote for The Yale Herald and The New Journal magazine.

Smith originally became interested in journalism as an intern at The Forward during his junior year of college.

Ben Smith Career 

Smith’s first professional reporting job was on The Indianapolis Star’s crime beat.

He subsequently relocated to Latvia to work for The Baltic Times and began reporting for The Wall Street Journal Europe (until 2001).

Smith also contributed to The New York Sun (2002–2003), The New York Observer (2003–2006), and The New York Daily News (2006–2007). Smith also founded three of New York City’s most famous political blogs between 2004 and 2006: The Politicker, The Daily Politics, and Room Eight.

Meet Him On Twitter

Ben Smith has around 343.4k followers on his Twitter account @benyt.

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