Q&A: Adam Lashinsky, Insider, The Information, Washington Post
October 19, 2022
5:40 pm
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Q&A: Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
September 18, 2022
12:43 pm
Derek Thompson quite literally works to save the world. A staff writer at The Atlantic, Derek oversees Progress, the 165-year-old publication’s most recent editorial franchise — and perhaps its most important ever.
SWMS Q&A: Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company
August 30, 2022
10:26 am
On the job a bit more than a month, Fast Company EIC Brendan Vaughan has inherited a respected, if not beloved, 27-year-old publication. His mission is to improve it.
Pitch Advice from 6 at Axios
August 24, 2022
9:41 am
A recent edition of the new Axios Communicators newsletter offered pitch advice from five Axios reporters and a co-founder. Newsletter author Eleanor Hawkins polled her colleagues on what PR folks need to be told.
Deep-Dive: Esther Ajao, TechTarget SearchEnterpriseAI
August 15, 2022
10:31 am
Experienced B2B reporters often can’t help turning news stories into analysis, where context and POV shroud the actual news. Not so with TechTarget news writer Esther Ajao, now finishing her first year at SearchEnterpriseAI.
Profile: Maria Korolov, IT Freelancer
July 27, 2022
4:23 pm
There’s no one like Maria Korolov. Born in Russia and now living in western Massachusetts, freelancer Maria covers cybersecurity, AI and virtual technologies for five IT media titles.
Analysis: Why Journalists Cover Surveys
July 13, 2022
4:32 pm
“The best surveys are ones that reveal unexpected findings or examine issues that have not yet been widely covered,” says Chain Store Age senior editor Dan Berthaiume.
Deep-Dive: WSJ CIO Journal
May 25, 2022
1:52 pm
We went deep this week on CIO Journal, the WSJ vertical that turned ten years old last month. Our subscribers regularly ask how to break through. We hope our data and analysis can help.
SWMS Q&A: Kelly Jackson Higgins, Dark Reading
May 12, 2022
5:34 am
CMP Media launched Dark Reading 16 years ago this month. Kelly Jackson Higgins worked there back then — and every day since. Today Kelly is editor-in-chief, having succeeded Tim Wilson, who passed away last fall.
Q&A: Adrian Bridgwater, contributor
April 20, 2022
2:53 pm
Focused on developers and data, B2B tech edit freelancer Adrian Bridgwater writes for UK-based ComputerWeekly, Enterprise Networking Planet, eWeek UK, Forbes and IDG Connect.
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Quentin Hardy Interviews Eric Savitz
July 23, 2024
Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.
27 B2B Newsletters, All In One Place
July 23, 2024
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).
Union for Mashable, PC Mag and Lifehacker Wins Protection Against Gen AI
July 18, 2024
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.
Gen AI: The Big Fizzle?
July 10, 2024
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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