Analysis: Bloomberg and WSJ Brace For AI
June 10, 2024
7:10 am
Two of the world’s most powerful business publishers are out to refine themselves as the impact of generative AI approaches.
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OpenAI To Pay News Corp. $250M Over Five Years
May 23, 2024
8:57 am
This deal leaves the NYT in the courtroom pretty much all by itself. The coming climbdown will fascinate comms pros, who will go to school
SWMS Dossier: Belle Lin, WSJ CIO Journal
January 17, 2024
8:04 am
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.
For Dow Jones, It Was A Very Good Year
November 30, 2023
6:48 am
Terrific interview in Press Gazette UK with Dow Jones CEO and WSJ publisher Almar Latour. Revenue and earnings are up — 80 percent comes from
SWMS Dossier: James Rundle, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Vertical
September 11, 2023
5:06 am
You may know James Rundle as the bass player in the NY-based punk rock band called Something Bitter. James is best known as a reporter for the WSJ Pro cybersecurity vertical.
Isabelle Bousquette: Fearless Storyteller, Tireless Reporter
June 5, 2023
2:38 pm
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.
Jailed WSJ Reporter’s Worst Enemy: The News Cycle
April 10, 2023
11:18 am
Intriguing reporting from New York Mag’s Intelligencer on Russia’s arrest of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich. The piece posits that keeping up the pressure for Evan’s
Behind the WSJ’s Attack on ‘Woke’ SVB
March 14, 2023
6:01 am
Twitter blew up yesterday about the WSJ’s suggestion that SVB’s problems may have stemmed from “diversity demands.” Absolutely no one should be surprised by this
‘Fellows’ and ‘Interns’ Make Great Targets
February 27, 2023
8:12 am
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.
SWMS Q&A: Suman Bhattacharyya, Industry Dive, WSJ Journal Reports
January 16, 2023
10:26 am
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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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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