Here are 15 top reporters expert in the field of network infrastructure. Many are the usual suspects. The audience sizes are small, relative to other tech segments.
When editorial layoffs come around, the topic of Substack comes up soon after. “How many reporters will wind up there?” our subscribers often ask.
“We sure miss Protocol,” enterprise tech PR pros often say. What they mean is, “We sure miss what Tom Krazit brought to the party.” They no longer have to, because last week the former Protocol enterprise editor founded Runtime.
Apart from the new targets, there’s much to grasp about Protocol’s new investments in enterprise tech edit. In the biggest picture, Protocol owner Axel Springer is investing in Protocol across the board.
As TechCrunch is to funding news and hot startups, Protocol is to enterprise computing. Last year you couldn’t say that, especially after go-to reporter Joe Williams departed for Bloomberg. This year you totally can. Protocol recently hired three enterprise reporters and seeks two more.
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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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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