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
Newly promoted Madhumita Murgia oversees AI coverage in the FT, across all disciplines. NiemanLab reveals her priorities in this Feb. 27 Q&A. “Good journalism, in
Futurism continues with its exclusive reporting. Red Ventures has instituted new procedures and has committed to generative AI no matter the cost. All of publishing
The sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld speculates that prospective authors are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word
Eric Newcomer is hosting a by-invitation-only AI summit Mar. 30 in San Francisco. Only 200 attendees. Here are the details.
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CNET insiders are leaking, helping Mia Sato deliver this powerful story, which alleges that CNET buckles to advertisers, and also, that editors knew about the
Came up with a dozen, all with contact info. We tried to avoid the roll-up newsletters that point to others’ content but offer little of their own. Then again, those “digest” newsletters point to still more resources.
Seemingly against all odds, two experienced entrepreneurs are launching Meteor, a publication about how AI, blockchain and Web3 technologies will transform just about all things digital.
Experienced B2B reporters often can’t help turning news stories into analysis, where context and POV shroud the actual news. Not so with TechTarget news writer Esther Ajao, now finishing her first year at SearchEnterpriseAI.
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The publications in question are UK-based. Still, the author’s observations about Google bode ill for US publishers as well.
Biz now covers “the intersection of money and Silicon Valley” for the Bloomberg Wealth section (not Brad Stone‘s team).
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.
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
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.
Folks are losing their minds. It’ll come back but it won’t be free, that’s for sure.
