If you’d like to pitch a contribution to VentureBeat or Quartz at Work, you’ll need to fill out a form to do it. Both publications have eliminated the email dialog that so many PR pros have used over the years to build relationships.
Quartz wants to know why its readers renew, and this week launched a survey to get answers. Below is an analysis of the survey questions and what the brand is up to.
Bradley Davis left the New York Post to become director of business news at Insider. There he will oversee reporters who cover breaking news for
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
Email newsletters are increasingly important in attracting loyal readers, according to Similarweb data analyzed by SWMS.
When you think Axios, you think “smart brevity.” When you picture Business Insider, you see those 30-word headlines and lengthy decks that finish the story before the reader even starts it. Quartz has its own comprehension hack, though only paid QZ subscribers get to see it.
Few publications have innovated like Quartz. It launched in 2012 as “mobile-first” and raced to embrace native advertising. Its first news app was a chatbot. It created amazing visuals and posted the code on GitHub. It had obsessions, not beats. So why is Quartz in trouble?
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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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