Tier 1

Everybody knows that web traffic is descending — but exactly where?

... and rarely reveals it. Roughly 45K opinion recent pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures…

A kind and generous subscriber shared the data on the latest producers on CNBC, the shows that they produce, and the times that the show is aired. This is what the Media Survey family is all about. The sidebars are from Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek. Enjoy, and good luck.…

You're not going to get on Bloomberg TV without impressing either one or both of these women, so make sure you read up.

This is a must-read article about both Business Insider and Wired being tricked by a phony freelance reporter writing phony stories. If BI and Wired can be fooled, everybody can be fooled.

Many PR pros mourned the damage at TechCrunch this spring, but this cheat sheet reminds us that more than two dozen pitchable reporters remain. Click on the name of the reporter for their beat and their recent work. The higher the name appears on the list, the more often they write. DALL·E produced…

This is a great way to monetize the archives. 

ServiceNow has launched a special report on Fortune to jumpstart strategic spending on AI, illustrating workarounds for implementation problems, and otherwise illuminating the path to integrating AI into software operations. This is a branding exercise, of course, and perhaps is a sign that earned…

The guy also is the full-time "chairman" of Bally and Sassoon. On top of that, he's also chairman of Foundry and 13 other companies. Well, 14, if you count his own private equity firm. How much time will he put into TC, understanding the subtleties of tech edit?

Axios is hiring a senior tech reporter to cover AI. How long will it take for the "laid-off" to land on their feet? It is already happening.

The BI culture over the years has been aloof to vendors and definitely PR. Now that many of those affected could use a friend or two, here's hoping they get the lift they need. Here is the message from BI CEO Barbara Peng.

Says Wired: "Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight." It's about those AI news summaries, the ones the readers love and reporters hate because they compete for reader attention.

The WSJ this week launched CEO Brief, a newsletter designed to inform readers, and to attract new members to the WSJ Leadership Institute. This organization is already a Dow Jones profit center, and a great example of how Tier 1 can lessen dependence on advertising. Former Fortune CEO Alan Murray…

Unionized writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative AI in member newsrooms, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The union -- Writers Guild of America, East -- represents Fast Company, Wired and many other prominent titles. The union won agreement that publications "will not…

TC's Rebecca Bellan finds fault with Quartz for how poorly its AI rewrote a recent story of hers. Quartz doesn't attempt to hide its use of AI. This will be the year everyone assumes that all publications use AI one way or another, and few if any people will come to care.

Today's Press-Gazette has a fascinating interview with Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, who left the FT to launch The CEO Signal, a weekly newsletter built for CEOs of companies with annual revenues of at least $500M. You can apply to receive it here.

Dr. Diane Hamilton has posted 37 articles on Forbes's CHRO Network page since Dec. 1. She has an active LinkedIn profile, which advertises a book she wrote. But her X feed and her personal web page both seem to be down. The Dr. happens to be founder and CEO of Tonerra, a company that specializes in…