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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Follow Anthropic’s Steve Mnich For Guidance on Claude
September 9, 2024
Steve is a longtime friend of SWMS and worked at subscriber LaunchSquad before moving on to IBM, Salesforce and now Anthropic. Steve knows exactly how to harness Claude’s power for comms purposes. Follow him and learn.
Google Hoses Publishers
September 5, 2024
Press Gazette has a great story about Google reintroducing AI summaries into search results — less so in queries about breaking news, but definitely when someone searches for trend or how-to info. Convenient for users, maybe… but publishers stand to lose a ton of long-tail traffic because of this. No wonder the vast majority of publisher “innovation” is about commerce or consulting and no longer builds upon journalism.
MIA: CNBC’s ‘My Biggest Lessons’
September 5, 2024
CNBC Make It had a popular video franchise called My Biggest Lessons, in which CEOs shared something valuable that they learned along the way. No new segments have appeared since May 31. We’ll monitor this for you.
Fortune Succeeding In Edit But Not In Sales
August 29, 2024
Great reporting from Mark Stenberg at Adweek. Two departures on the sales side seem to have hurt. The story also suggests that former Fortune CEO Alan Murray — who said he was retiring — may turn up at WSJ. Fortune is said to have released Murray from his noncompete, taking his word that he was ending his career.
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The Fortune Five: Where Are They Now?
August 24, 2024
Ten months ago SWMS spotlighted five up-and-coming Fortune reporters, suggesting that PR get to know these rookies. Where are they now? Jane Thier continues to excel in the Success section. Ruth Umoh now edits Next To Lead. Kylie Robison split for The Verge. Rachyl Jones is a fellow at Semafor. Alexandra Sternlicht this summer won a Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia. Competition for this is brutal — congrats Alexandra!