NPR has the details. Oddly, the WSJ has never written about this incident — even after a Phoenix TV station broke the story — even
Former USAT editor Laura Petrecca is looking to profile those who have made career changes in their 50s. Seems like a good opp. Another former
In descending order, here’s what you opened in our Jan. 4 emailer: Andrew Nusca on analytics; cheat sheet on infographics; analysis on why journos stay
If you’re following ChatGPT and other generative AI developments, visit Voicebot.ai. Sort of a sleeper, very plugged in. Audience is 138K UVM, per Similarweb.
TikTok spied on Katharine Schwab, Emily Baker-White and Richard Nieva. Makes you wonder whether publications should invest in TikTok video channels, the way The Economist and
ChatGPT will look like “a boring toy” when language model GPT-4 arrives in 2023, says OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. This article is well
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The stage is set, now that Rupert Murdoch has installed Emma Tucker as WSJ’s new EIC.
Axios, Vox/The Verge and the Washington Post all have tried licensing their content management systems. None made a profit. All are now exiting this business.
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Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
