“Marketplace” puts “Make me Smart” on Amazon’s Alexa
Business radio news show “Marketplace” has put its “Make Me Smart” podcast on Amazon’s Alexa, its first foray into the technology. Once the skill is enabled, listeners can ask “Alexa, make me smart!” to hear podcast hosts Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood explain the economy, pop culture, tech and current events. “Thirty years’ expertise and […]
Fast Company rolls out two podcasts, YouTube series
Fast Company is introducing two podcast series and a YouTube video series a month after premiering three new YouTube weekly series, reports Sara Guaglione of MediaPost. Guaglione writes, “The two podcast series will be called ‘Secrets of the Most Productive People’ and ‘Creative Conversation.’ They will alternate with new episodes every Wednesday. “‘Secrets of the Most Productive People’ […]
WSJ hires Dooling as product lead for newsletters
The Wall Street Journal has hired Annemarie Dooling to be product lead for its newsletters. She starts next week. Dooling will be working with senior editor Cory Schouten on The Journal’s big newsletter push. She has been with Vox Media since March 2016, and for the last six months she was newsletter and retention growth lead, […]
The impact of AI on business journalism
Ron Day, a former Bloomberg News journalist, writes for Big Think about the impact of artificial intelligence on business journalism. Day writes, “At his desk a few years ago in the Bloomberg newsroom, Damon Kovelsky sensed the change coming: automation, artificial intelligence. Bots, crawlers, borg. Would it come for his job, he wondered? To stay […]
Bloomberg puts First Word briefing on Google Assistant
Bloomberg’s audio news briefing is now available on Google Assistant, which includes Google Home and the Google Assistant App. Consumers can listen to business news with Bloomberg First Word news briefing by asking Google to “play Bloomberg First Word,” or by adding Bloomberg as a news source through the Google Assistant App. The Bloomberg First […]
How The Economist’s new app tries to keep people from unsubscribing
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about how The Economist’s new app aims to keep readers from unsubscribing. Southern writes, “For the past eight months, The Economist has worked to drive retention, as it’s cheaper to keep readers than to acquire new ones. Case in point is its new Economist app, which went live May 2 and is […]
News Corp creates NewsTech business unit
Ramin Beheshti, chief product and technology officer at Dow Jones, sent out the following announcement on Friday: Hello Everyone, I wanted to make you all aware of an exciting change that is happening within Technology, not only at Dow Jones but at News Corp. First, as many of you may have heard, News Corp is […]
Bloomberg expanding TicToc into podcasts, newsletters
Bloomberg’s Twitter network TicToc is expanding its brand into more direct-to-consumer offerings such as podcasts, audio digests and a newsletter, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “Bloomberg is hoping a direct-to-consumer approach will help expand TicToc’s brand as the company’s digital version of the modern news network. Podcast: The new podcast will feature an […]
CNBC becomes available on Android TV
CNBC has launched the CNBC App on Android TV in the United States. Robert Briel of Broadband TV News reports, “The CNBC App on Android TV, which can be found on the Google Play Store, offers users access to a variety of CNBC’s premier content. Users can live stream CNBC and watch full episodes from select […]
How automating earnings stories helped the AP biz news desk
Lisa Gibbs, former AP business editor and now director of news partnerships, will speak at a VentureBeat webinar next week about how working with Automated Insights to have software write corporate earnings stories has helped the business news desk. A VentureBeat story states, “With structured data about earnings releases and report templates, they launched their […]
