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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…
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…
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
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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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
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
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
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
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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Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.
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).
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.
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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