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Morning Brew hired Tom McKay to run its forthcoming IT Brew newsletter. Morning Brew also will launch F2F events this fall and is moving into
Morning Brew hired Tom McKay to run its forthcoming IT Brew newsletter. Morning Brew also will launch F2F events this fall and is moving into
Nick Robins-Early is now a senior editor at Insider, running its digital culture news desk. Leena K. Rao, formerly with TechCrunch and Fortune, is now
The New York Times seeks a reporter to cover Google. Candidates must “be able to… source fearlessly.” Un-vaccinated candidates need not apply… NYT’s David Gelles
Vanessa Mobley starts next week as op-ed editor for the New York Times… Michelle Legro is Wired’s new deputy editor for features… Kara Swisher‘s latest
Former InformationWeek reporter David Carr has joined Similarweb as senior insights manager. He’ll be mining data and sharing analyses on Similarweb’s blog. SWMS will be
VentureBeat has launched Data DecisionMakers, a “community” that wants your contributed content…
Peter Allen Clark left Time to become technology editor at Axios…Lucinda Shen left Fortune to join Axios, too — she will cover fintech there… Kyle Alspach left CRN to cover security for VentureBeat…
Red Ventures isn’t selling ZDNet anytime soon. If anything, the 30-year-old franchise is growing. Look for enhanced coverage of health, education and personal finance in
Google this month announced a $1 billion investment in Africa. Quartz Africa is worth the bookmark… Wired merged its US and UK editions and is
Fortune next week welcomes new EIC Alyson Shontell with a staff-only happy hour in a New York City drinking establishment…Natalie Gagliordi left ZDNet and now
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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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