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January 13, 2022
11:06 am
Former InformationWeek reporter David Carr has joined Similarweb as senior insights manager. He’ll be mining data and sharing analyses on Similarweb’s blog. SWMS will be
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December 16, 2021
9:43 am
VentureBeat has launched Data DecisionMakers, a “community” that wants your contributed content…
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November 30, 2021
9:33 am
Peter Allen Clark left Time to become technology editor at Axios…Lucinda Shen left Fortune to join Axios, too — she will cover fintech there… Kyle Alspach left CRN to cover security for VentureBeat…
Odds & Ends
November 8, 2021
5:18 am
Red Ventures isn’t selling ZDNet anytime soon. If anything, the 30-year-old franchise is growing. Look for enhanced coverage of health, education and personal finance in
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October 19, 2021
3:33 pm
Google this month announced a $1 billion investment in Africa. Quartz Africa is worth the bookmark… Wired merged its US and UK editions and is
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October 5, 2021
4:35 pm
Fortune next week welcomes new EIC Alyson Shontell with a staff-only happy hour in a New York City drinking establishment…Natalie Gagliordi left ZDNet and now
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September 17, 2021
6:45 pm
Jake Meth left Fortune. Pitch contributed content to Matt Heimeror Mohamed Elaassar… Fortune’s Sy Mukherjee left journalism… Aman Kidwai is Fortune’s new CSR and DEI
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September 7, 2021
9:48 pm
Morning Brew executive editor Andrew Nusca seeks five additional editors for his team… Insider owner Axel Springer may buy a piece of Politico… CNN is
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Biz Carson to Bloomberg
March 14, 2023
Biz now covers “the intersection of money and Silicon Valley” for the Bloomberg Wealth section (not Brad Stone‘s team).
Behind the WSJ’s Attack on ‘Woke’ SVB
March 14, 2023
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 claim. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch recently installed Emma Tucker as EIC, a Murdoch loyalist brought in to lead WSJ’s coverage of the 2024 elections. Says The Guardian: “Tucker will find herself having to work out how to cover a third presidential run by Donald Trump. Murdoch has… cooled on the former president and is warming to Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida who is expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination.”
So prepare for an onslaught of woke this and woke that from the WSJ, a publication that isn’t what it used to be, no matter how much we wish it otherwise.
ICYMI: SMK at SdXCentral
March 13, 2023
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
Morning Brew Lays Off Another 40
March 10, 2023
Owner Axel Springer must be nervous. Not a good signal from one the world’s most successful publishers. We’ll do the best we can to audit who left. Axios’s Sara Fischer broke the story.
TweetDeck Doesn’t Work Anymore
March 6, 2023
Folks are losing their minds. It’ll come back but it won’t be free, that’s for sure.
CNET Lays Off Staff, Moves Connie Guglielmo To AI Role
March 3, 2023
The Verge’s Mia Sato delivers a scoop on layoffs at CNET (perhaps 10% of staff) and Connie Guglielmo‘s move from EIC to editor-at-large and senior VP of AI content strategy. (Coincidentally, Digiday today ran this story on the rise of the “chief AI officer” — sub required.)
CNET is owned by Red Ventures, which calls itself a media company, but it’s more like a shell company owned by multiple private-equity firms. CNET and ZDNet editors never unionized, which now they probably regret.