Are NYT’s Contributed Posts Better Than VentureBeat’s?
December 5, 2023
7:01 am
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Q&A: Steve Lohr, NYT
March 30, 2022
7:31 am
If you’re younger than 43 years old, Steve Lohr was reporting for the New York Times before you were born. Imagine all the stories he has written… the interviews he has conducted… and all the pitches he has seen.
Profile: Nicole Perlroth, New York Times
October 5, 2021
4:34 am
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Analysis: Chegg CEO in the NYT’s ‘Corner Office’
August 6, 2020
12:21 pm
Want to see a CEO trying to steer a profile interview? Check out the Jun. 12 David Gelles Corner Office profile of Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig in the New York Times. You’ll see that PR success isn’t as simple as one might think.
Calacanis Slams NYT for Ignoring ‘World-Positive’ Startups
July 21, 2020
7:58 pm
Are you struggling to interest Tier 1 reporters in lesser-known clients? So is Jason Calacanis. The former journalist and well-known investor and podcaster sounded off Jul. 7 to CNBC’s Jon Fortt and two other hosts about the trouble he and other VCs have had in breaking through — especially to the New York Times.
Amazing Visual Storytelling from the New York Times
September 25, 2019
4:27 pm
If you’re interested in state-of-the-art storytelling, look no further than last week’s special report from the New York Times. Titled “The Office: An In-Depth Analysis of Workplace User Behavior,” it’s not necessarily something to read — it’s something to play with.
Profile: David Pogue, NYT, CBS
March 23, 2019
3:43 pm
David Pogue is tech media’s Sgt. Pepper: the act we’ve known for all these years and guaranteed to raise a smile. After a bout of obscurity at Yahoo Tech, David is back with new columns at the New York Times and New York Magazine, increased presence on CBS Sunday Morning and a forthcoming page-turner of a book.
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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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