Fortune Spikes, Bloomberg Swoons
June 20, 2023
6:17 am
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AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms
May 1, 2023
3:15 pm
That’s the headline on Davey Alba‘s May 1 story for Bloomberg. Davey “documents 49 new websites populated by AI tools like ChatGPT and posing as news
Vendors: Don’t Forget the Contact Info
February 8, 2023
12:02 pm
Bloomberg reporter Matthew Boyle Tweets: “Another hour lost to rooting around a startup’s ‘newsroom’ page, looking in vain through the fawning case studies and trite
Q&A: Joe Williams, First Chair Media, Substack
February 7, 2023
8:04 am
Former Bloomberg and Protocol reporter Joe Williams is not your typical pitch target. He does write a weekly Substack newsletter called Billable Hours, in which he writes about enterprise tech topics. But time has marched on…
Bloomberg TV to Launch ‘Bloomberg Originals,’ Moves QuickTake to Social
February 2, 2023
11:15 am
Great scoop from the WSJ’s Alexandra Bruell (sub required).
Pitching Bloomberg’s Brody Ford
June 20, 2022
10:45 am
Brody Ford last month succeeded Joe Williams as the Bloomberg tech reporter most likely to write the story you’re pitching. Time to get him on the radar.
Cheat Sheet: Bloomberg TV Producers and Talent
January 19, 2022
6:02 am
Here’s a multi-tab cheat sheet with producers and talent for both Bloomberg Quicktake and Bloomberg Television — the original network. We’ve got email addresses for everyone, and comment fields to help bring perspective.
Odds & Ends
January 13, 2022
11:06 am
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
Odds & Ends
November 8, 2021
5:18 am
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
Key Edit Vacancies at Bloomberg, WSJ
September 30, 2021
12:56 pm
Chances of pitch success are low these days if you’ve got an enterprise tech story for Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal.
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‘Time’ Doubles Its POV Content
September 18, 2023
Sara Fischer of Axios nails another scoop: Time is merging its Time Ideas section into a new one, called Time100 Voices. It doesn’t promise big opportunity for tech PR — it aims so high that only the Benioffs and Nadellas stand a chance.
Latest Semrush Research: Mental Health A Top Concern Worldwide
September 18, 2023
Recent research from Semrush, a data partner of ours, reveals the most searched societal issues based on average monthly Google searches between January 2019 and June 2023, and how they rank across 35 countries. Searches related to mental health are skyrocketing.
Marshall Kirkpatrick Renamed His AI Newsletter
September 15, 2023
It is now called AI Time To Impact, and if you care about what’s real in AI and when we need to care about it, AI Time To impact is a must-read.
Much of Gen Z Searches on Social, Not Google
September 12, 2023
Says Digiday today: 40 percent of Gen Z uses TikTok or Instagram when searching for lunch recommendations. The younger you go, the tighter the grip held by platforms. Musk’s calculation that few will ever leave X might not be too far off in the long run.
Digiday: Journalists Taking A Dim View of Gen AI
September 8, 2023
Digiday granted anonymity to seven journalists working in shops that are experimenting with generative AI. “Nothing we have found is ready for prime time, at least not for serious journalism purposes,” says one, adding that “there is no way that AI results in more people being in journalism. This only can result in less.”
Some individuals said they dabble with Gen AI to find good headlines and story ideas.
The last word seemed to go to Insider EIC Nic Carlson, who said, “AI will replace, over time, journalists who refuse to use AI.”
NYT Insists on ‘C.E.O.’
September 7, 2023
We’ve been working on updating our CEO Profile cheat sheet and noticed that only the New York Times insists on calling these executives C.E.O.s. How stuffy. And the C.E.O.s they do cover always seem to be resigning for one reason or another. We’ll have the updated cheat sheet ready for you very soon. The FT’s ‘How To Lead’ feature appears to be in hiatus. The WSJ has some opportunity in WSJ Magazine.