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Box CEO Aaron Levie’s Deleted Tweet

October 27, 2022 9:01 am

PR pros often want executives to be visible on Twitter, which so many journalists glean for insights. There are risks to this — strangely enough, posed by Twitter software itself, as well as Google.

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Cheat Sheet: Twitter Reporters

June 10, 2021 3:50 pm

Who covers social media? It’s tough to tell since social media is so often casually mentioned in so many kinds of stories. Here’s a list of 14 scribes — overwhelmingly from Tier 1 — whom you can pitch on behalf of clients focused on social media platforms.

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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.

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.

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