“Supply chain” remains an ambiguous term, as it was when last we examined targets back in 2021. Covid isn’t backing up the ports anymore, so there’s no coverage glut there. But supply chain is just as much a devops term these days…
Supply chain editorial will continue long past the December holiday season. Bloomberg and the Financial Times each have run more than 50 articles about the supply chain in December alone — and few had to do with holiday shopping. Can you get in on some of that action?
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That’s the strategy as expressed to NYT’s Katie Robertson by Axios CEO Jim VandeHei. First up: Eleanor Hawkins, Sara Fischer and Dan Primack.
Forbes’s reputation is taking a hit because of the ad scandal unearthed this month by the WSJ. Some advertisers have stopped spending with Forbes, at least temporarily. Here’s the latest from Digiday [subscription required].
What a terrific scoop from the WSJ’s Patience Haggin: Forbes for years operated a shadow, tiny-traffic web site — at www3.forbes.com — that housed advertising bought to run on the big-traffic Forbes.com site. Advertisers paid for the real site but were placed on the spammy shadow site. After WSJ broke the story, Forbes took the shadow site offline. One quote from the story: “Imagine if a car dealership slapped a Lexus sticker on an economy Toyota and sold it to you as a Lexus.”
Digiday’s Sara Guaglione has a great scoop on how several publishers — including the FT, Forbes, Business Insider, The Guardian and others — are using gen AI tools to improve their own search engines. One publisher told Sara that site search historically is “not a widely-used function.”
Substack author and Financial Times contributor Gary Marcus stops short of saying Gen AI is over, but does posit that the “bubble” could burst in the next 12 months and makes a sadly compelling case. Another Substack author, Alberto Romero, makes a similar, circumspect case.
The NYT soon will add an automated voice to the majority of its articles, reports Axios. When that day comes, can we really call the NYT audience “readers”?
