AI Cracks the Code on WSJ CIO Journal
You’ve always known that it’s tough to crack the WSJ CIO Journal. Now thanks to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4, you now know exactly why, and exactly what you can do about it.
You’ve always known that it’s tough to crack the WSJ CIO Journal. Now thanks to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4, you now know exactly why, and exactly what you can do about it.
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If tech journalism had its own 30 Under 30 list, Belle Keni Lin certainly would be on it. The 28-year-old WSJ reporter started her career as a marcom intern, first at Dropbox and later at Fleetsmith, an IT software company later acquired by Apple.
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More often than not, studying a reporter’s copy reveals much about the man or woman who wrote it. That’s just not the case with WSJ CIO Journal reporter Isabelle Bousquette.
Most PR pros categorize targets by beat, then by publication. There’s another way — by experience. The rookies are happy to be where they are. And quite often they are friendly toward PR, especially when you appear to know a little bit about them.
Born and raised in Canada, Suman Bhattacharyya logged time at Digiday and Ad Age before landing in late 2021 at the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal. Seven months later Suman became a freelancer, writing primarily for a handful of Industry Dive titles as well as the WSJ’s Journal Reports.
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