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The pitch-writing tool Storypitch.ai writes “founder story” PR pitches and they permit one free sample. Ours was about a fictional flying golf bag that uses
The pitch-writing tool Storypitch.ai writes “founder story” PR pitches and they permit one free sample. Ours was about a fictional flying golf bag that uses
Well, most everyone’s. The reason: social media and Google aren’t driving traffic like they used to. Excellent team reporting from Mike Isaac, Katie Robertson and
Vox Media senior correspondent Peter Kafka and Axios senior media reporter Sara Fischer will examine “The Future of News” in a two-hour event on Oct.
The Information is looking for revenue beyond paid subscriptions — they seem to be plateauing — and has hired former Morning Brew COO Matthew Resnick
Let’s see how long it takes Elon Musk to apply counter-countermeasures. Good reporting from UK-based Press Gazette.
The Economist this week held a 60-minute webinar on the topic of its own writing style. Three editors emphasized the power of simplicity: “old, short
… is now available. Big thanks to SWMS subscribers Morgan McLintic and Chris Ulbrich for the opportunity to be a guest on the newly launched
A subscriber reports that HARO needs to do a better job of labeling a corporate blogger as a corporate blogger. Because of how HARO presents
The average age of a WSJ reader is 59. That’s just one of many insights in this terrific piece from The Daily Beast, published this
Which musical artist, over the course of his still-active career, played sold out shows at both Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium? Sirius/XM is broadcasting a
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Another scoop from Sara Fischer at Axios: Refinery29 is “taking over” B2C event brand Beautycon, among the most successful F2F events in the beauty space. The idea is to augment the R29 brand and make the title less vulnerable to a weak advertising market.
It’s dangerous to publish content that antagonizes the powerful.
Nic will stay on as editor-at-large.
That BI announced no successor implies that this situation has a life of its own, and is not under Axel Springer’s full control.
Quoted by the UK-based Press Gazette, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson said, “Courtship is preferable to courtrooms – we are wooing not suing. But let’s be clear, in my view those who are repurposing our content without approval are stealing.”
The Gen AI titans are currently paying publishers between $1M and $5M a year to train their LLMs on publishers’ content, the Press Gazette reports.
While the NYT pursues its suit against OpenAI, the Financial Times has chosen to license its content to help OpenAI train current and future LLMs. The NYT seems to be on the wrong side of this issue, with the Associated Press and Axel Springer also choosing to see OpenAI as a source of income, rather than an enemy.
Here’s the opposing view, from Press Gazette’s Dominic Young, who advises publishers to play a game of chicken with OpenAI and its LLM competitors.
… and it has no problem disclosing how. Reporters still run the joint, but they are getting AI assistance.
The Atlantic’s Karen Hao, in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center, is designing a course in AI for journalists. Classes begin next month. Details here. Might be something to alert your friendlies about. Karen hopes to help train 1,000 journalists in AI over the next two years.