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
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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
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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
Odds & Ends
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
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The Atlantic Goes Monthly Again in Print
October 15, 2024
The Atlantic soon will publish 12 print editions a year, up from ten. “The greatness of print and especially a print magazine is that it sits still for you,” EIC Jeffrey Goldberg tells CNN. “It doesn’t beep and flash and demand that you do things.”
‘Hyperbolic’ Press Releases
October 9, 2024
Here’s a true story. An Oct. 8 Adweek headline says, ‘Press Releases Have Become Way Too Hyperbolic.’ The deck says, ‘Experts Warn the Loss of Credibility Could Lead to Catastrophe.”
TechCrunch Redesigns
October 2, 2024
TechCrunch redesigned this week. Still green, less clutter. Built for the phone. Events and newsletters rank higher in the home page scroll than startups, venture and AI. No enterprise section. Parent Yahoo invested this money to build engagement. More changes due in 2025, EIC Connie Loizos says.
Wired To Launch Awards Program
September 29, 2024
Adweek’s Mark Stenberg reports that Wired is getting into the awards business. The Wired 101 Awards will debut in October. Be on the lookout for the announcement.
BI’s AI-based Paywall Increased Conversions by 75 Percent
September 25, 2024
BI’s publishing software knows what you’ve clicked on before and where you came from. Through Google Analytics, BI also knows how all readers react to certain content. Once you visit, BI knows whether to ask you to subscribe, or to register, or just to let you see everything for just that one visit. Conversions rose 75 percent this year. Digiday got the scoop (subscription required).
A Forbes Within Forbes
September 22, 2024
Fascinating piece from Lars Lofgren about how a Forbes subsidiary — under the Forbes name — has managed to dominate Google search results…
…and now it turns out that Forbes — both iterations — are set to be purchased by the venture arm of Koch Industries. Nice scoop, Sara.