Analysis: Bloomberg and WSJ Brace For AI
June 10, 2024
7:10 am
Two of the world’s most powerful business publishers are out to refine themselves as the impact of generative AI approaches.
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‘BloombergGPT’ Is MIA. Is This Why?
March 25, 2024
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Bloomberg last year announced its own AI technology, BloombergGPT, designed to help investors make decisions. BloombergGPT was built to draw from the treasure trove of
What Bloomberg Says About Its Own Opinion Section
February 7, 2024
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Bloomberg last fall launched a 60-day marketing campaign with the message, “context changes everything.” In 2024 the “context’ messaging has continued, in the form of promoting Bloomberg’s opinion content.
Changes At Bloomberg
February 1, 2024
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Brad Stone is now editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, for which he was a senior writer from 2010 to 2015. Succeeding Brad as Bloomberg’s executive editor
Updated Cheat Sheet: Bloomberg TV Producers and Talent
October 2, 2023
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Fortune Spikes, Bloomberg Swoons
June 20, 2023
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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).
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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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