The Associated Press Gets Into Ecommerce
March 13, 2024
3:44 pm
The site AP Buyline launches Mar. 18, according to Axios. The AP wants to recommend some products and services to you. Even the newswires are
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Microsoft Now Powering Semafor With AI
March 5, 2024
9:36 am
Visit Semafor and you’ll see lots of headlines with blue stars next to them. Semafor reporters write these articles, which then are extended by ChatGPT
Meet Max Tani, The Bearer of Layoff News
March 4, 2024
10:32 am
Here’s Slate’s profile of Semafor’s Max Tani, who covers media layoffs.
The Guardian Reveals ‘Dwell Time’ Stats
March 1, 2024
3:27 pm
The Guardian is now revealing a “Deeply Read” list, statistics on which Guardian articles readers spend the most time with. (This concept is widely known
Data: AI’s Impact On Freelance Writing Jobs
February 27, 2024
9:29 am
They’re down by one-third, says a fresh study from Bloomberry. The surprise was how many freelance job categories are now growing — and one is
Business Insider’s “Disruptive Go-Getters” (DGGs)
February 26, 2024
1:17 pm
Disruptive go-getters is the type of reader that Business Insider is now trying to please. Talking Biz News posted an interesting story about this last
More on TikTok
February 13, 2024
12:38 pm
So much left over from the deep-dive… TikTok traffic to news interviews tends to be low, even with CEOs such as Andy Jassy… same with
The Root Of The Issue For Publishers
February 7, 2024
6:08 am
From the UK-based Press Gazette daily newsletter, Feb. 7: “Meta made $135bn in revenue last year. In the UK alone it made more in advertising
Microsoft and Semafor Team Up On AI-Driven Wire Service
February 6, 2024
7:13 am
The FT has detail on a collaboration between Microsoft and Semafor. Microsoft will prove Semafor with AI technology that will help Semafor spot timely news
Changes At Bloomberg
February 1, 2024
5:47 am
Brad Stone is now editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, for which he was a senior writer from 2010 to 2015. Succeeding Brad as Bloomberg’s executive editor
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Quentin Hardy Interviews Eric Savitz
July 23, 2024
Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.
27 B2B Newsletters, All In One Place
July 23, 2024
The UK-based newsletter company called Trending Now uses AI to scrape what’s trending across 27 areas of B2B. Press Gazette has additional detail. The company employs ten, none of whom are journalists (by traditional definition).
Union for Mashable, PC Mag and Lifehacker Wins Protection Against Gen AI
July 18, 2024
The full union membership needs to ratify it on July 24, but it looks like no editors can be laid off or suffer a salary cut if the publication goes big in its use of generative AI. More detail here from Neiman.
Gen AI: The Big Fizzle?
July 10, 2024
Goldman Sachs took 32 pages to say pretty much that. The media business may turn out to be an outlier, an industry perfectly suited to synthetic, multilingual words, sounds and images at scale. As for everyone else, well, the global consultancies will learn the truth first because they have rushed to monetize Gen AI — they aren’t yet succeeding.
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