Publishers are Losing Visibility in Google Search Results
March 23, 2023
9:11 am
The publications in question are UK-based. Still, the author’s observations about Google bode ill for US publishers as well.
Cheat Sheet: Google Cloud Targets
September 30, 2022
7:37 am
This list of two dozen targets is a roll-up of cloud targets you already know — and perhaps a few you don’t — as well as Google/Alphabet beat reporters in Tier 1. Hope you find it helpful.
Odds & Ends
October 19, 2021
3:33 pm
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
‘Founded’ is Google’s Pitchable Podcast for Women Who Lead
April 1, 2021
9:48 am
Perhaps you saw the headline in HBR: “Women-Led Startups Received Just 2.3% of VC Funding in 2020.” Google — the company — is out to fix that with a recently launched podcast called Founded… and its co-founder welcomes your pitch.
Cheat Sheet: Amazon, Google Reporters
April 18, 2018
4:06 pm
One might ask, “Why do I care about FAANG reporters when FAANGs aren’t my clients?” Many of your clients compete, at least indirectly, with one of these behemoths. Health insurers once couldn’t imagine Amazon as a competitor. So here are the beat reporters in the big edit shops, as of April 2018.
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FRIDGE NOTES
Refinery29 Buys An Event Company
May 8, 2024
Another scoop from Sara Fischer at Axios: Refinery29 is “taking over” B2C event brand Beautycon, among the most successful F2F events in the beauty space. The idea is to augment the R29 brand and make the title less vulnerable to a weak advertising market.
Nic Carlson Resigns as Business Insider EIC
May 8, 2024
It’s dangerous to publish content that antagonizes the powerful.
Nic will stay on as editor-at-large.
That BI announced no successor implies that this situation has a life of its own, and is not under Axel Springer’s full control.
News Corp. Is Negotiating With AI Companies
May 8, 2024
Quoted by the UK-based Press Gazette, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson said, “Courtship is preferable to courtrooms – we are wooing not suing. But let’s be clear, in my view those who are repurposing our content without approval are stealing.”
The Gen AI titans are currently paying publishers between $1M and $5M a year to train their LLMs on publishers’ content, the Press Gazette reports.
FT Opens Up Its Content to OpenAI
April 30, 2024
While the NYT pursues its suit against OpenAI, the Financial Times has chosen to license its content to help OpenAI train current and future LLMs. The NYT seems to be on the wrong side of this issue, with the Associated Press and Axel Springer also choosing to see OpenAI as a source of income, rather than an enemy.
Here’s the opposing view, from Press Gazette’s Dominic Young, who advises publishers to play a game of chicken with OpenAI and its LLM competitors.
Newsweek Uses AI…
April 18, 2024
… and it has no problem disclosing how. Reporters still run the joint, but they are getting AI assistance.
The Atlantic’s Karen Hao Has A Big Idea
April 16, 2024
The Atlantic’s Karen Hao, in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center, is designing a course in AI for journalists. Classes begin next month. Details here. Might be something to alert your friendlies about. Karen hopes to help train 1,000 journalists in AI over the next two years.