Odds & Ends
October 20, 2022
12:55 pm
The Wall Street Journal’s newly launched TikTok channel now boasts 34 videos and almost 8,000 followers… Indrani Sen left NYT to edit features at Fortune…
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September 20, 2022
9:59 am
TechCrunch enterprise reporter Ron Miller usually does the interviewing, but last week, on LinkedIn Live, Ron gave an interview to CRM expert Brent Leary. Here’s
Odds & Ends
August 17, 2022
8:34 am
Edit vet Damon Beres now is a senior editor covering tech for The Atlantic. Quickest to congratulate him on Twitter: Danielle Sacks, Mat Honan, Farhad
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August 2, 2022
2:30 pm
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July 14, 2022
5:55 am
Axios Communicators, a weekly newsletter for “internal and external communicators,” arrives this month. It’s edited by new arrival Eleanor Hawkins, whose background is politics… Fortune
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June 23, 2022
2:29 pm
Has the NYT’s David Gelles quit Corner Office or not? Seven 2022 Corner Office columns appear on David’s own coverage page that have not shown
Odds & Ends
May 26, 2022
9:22 am
CMO specialist Marty Swant left Forbes and will announce his next reporting job soon… Kent German quit CNET after 18 years and says he will
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May 12, 2022
9:57 am
Bradley Davis left the New York Post to become director of business news at Insider. There he will oversee reporters who cover breaking news for
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April 26, 2022
10:54 am
Karen Hao left MIT Tech Review to cover China tech and society for the WSJ. No word yet on her replacement… Sharon Goldman joined VentureBeat
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April 8, 2022
7:51 am
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Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’
November 22, 2024
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
Business Insider Reporters Starting to Go on Camera
November 19, 2024
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer
November 13, 2024
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy team” and picked five AI startups to seed their rosters. We’re now in year 2 and it’s time to draft again. The podcasters wonder… which startups do they dump? Which do they add? The player whose startups accumulate the most total value by Nov. 1, 2028 is the winner, so there’s plenty of time to make adjustments. Here’s a link to the AI fantasy team podcast — you may need a password. Not sure.
How Do We Read?
November 9, 2024
This timeless explainer — a powerful blend of visuals and text — will explain the psychology of how we read, as in, how does the mind actually work? Hats off to Message Labs, the producer.
How NYT Uses Gen AI
November 7, 2024
Ars Technica recently filed this revealing piece on how the NYT uses gen AI to analyze gargantuan transcripts, ones that would overwhelm mere mortals. The results still need to be reviewed by humans, but the grunt analysis is done by the LLM. Investigative reporting becomes easier. Journalism is served.
TechTarget Shareholders to Vote on Merger With Informa
November 5, 2024
It was announced long ago, but on Nov, 26 we learn whether TechTarget stockholders want to join forces with Informa and its legion of IT media brands, not least of which is Industry Dive. It will be hard to imagine a rival of equal power, with IDG/Foundry now a shadow of its former self. IDG/Foundry’s lack of investment and focus on cost-cutting will look unwise if TechTarget and Informa do merge.