If you’re younger than 43 years old, Steve Lohr was reporting for the New York Times before you were born. Imagine all the stories he has written… the interviews he has conducted… and all the pitches he has seen.
Tech vendors pour countless hours and dollars into surveys and ask the comms people to publicize the findings. How do you coax busy, skeptical reporters to cover these things? As we did in 2015, we asked reporters to give one reason they’d cover vendor surveys and one reason they wouldn’t. Here’s what they said this time.
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Drafting..: "This time last year, the Wall Street Journal's CIO Journal vertical boasted five stellar reporters -- Sara Castellanos, Jared Council, Angus Loten, John McCormick and Agam Shah. Today's CIO-J boasts only three: Angus, Isabelle Bousquette and Suman Bhattacharyya."
✨Some professional news✨After five years at @BusinessInsider, I am thrilled to be joining @LinkedInNews as their technology editor. I’m excited to branch out beyond advertising, and take the skills I’ve picked up as a reporter over the past 8+ years to demystify a broader beat.
Abba goes on tour next week -- sort of. Their avatars do.
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Personal news: Today is my first day @thisisinsider as a senior sustainability reporter!
I'll be covering how companies tackle #esg issues like climate change, plastic waste & working conditions, w/ a focus on accountability.
Get in touch at cboudreau@insider.com.
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