Tech journalist Newcomer on being an entrepreneur
Candice Choi spoke with tech journalist Eric Newcomer — who operates the Newcomer newsletter — about what it’s like being an entrepreneur as well as a reporter. Here is an excerpt: “You understand how hard things are. It has created a little more of an optimistic product, productive, less judging. Sometimes journalists can have a ‘this was a […]
Business Insider’s Barr to start tech newsletter
Business Insider global technology editor Alistair Barr is starting a weekly tech newsletter. Barr has been with Business Insider since 2021. He joined Bloomberg News in February 2016 and has been the Big Tech team leader, managing a team of reporters covering the largest U.S. technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google. He also wrote about Google at […]
Tech journalist starts The Leverage
Tech journalist Evan Armstrong has started an email publication called “The Leverage.” The first edition will publish on April 27. “Tech coverage today is noisy—too much noise, not enough signal,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “I started The Leverage because the most transformative era in human history deserves analysis that’s rigorous, actionable, and beautiful. My company […]
Wired seeks a journalist to start a weekly, premium newsletter
Wired seeks an experienced journalist to helm a weekly, premium newsletter. In this role, you’ll be responsible for producing one must-read newsletter per week in your area of expertise. Coverage areas can vary depending on an applicant’s individual strengths, but should be in a core Wired topic such as politics, Big Tech, artificial intelligence, internet […]
Konrad, ex-Forbes senior editor, starts Upstarts Media
Alex Konrad, a former senior editor at Forbes who left in January, has started Upstarts Media to cover the startup ecosystem. “Upstarts is founded on the belief that startups are at their best when they challenge the status quo to achieve lasting impact,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “This mission is deeply personal to me – […]
NY Times hires Rudoren to oversee DealBook newsletter
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Tuesday: We are thrilled to announce that Jodi Rudoren is coming back to The Times. Jodi will rejoin our newsroom as editorial director of Newsletters, where she will oversee our portfolio of dozens of newsletters that together reach many millions of people every day. This […]
How the FT uses polls to add subscribers
Gordon Smith, newsletter editor of the Financial Times, writes for Journalism.co.uk writes about how the FT uses polls to engage readers and add subscribers. Smith writes, “We have also used polls to reach younger, less traditional audiences. The award-winning FT Edit app launched a new daily newsletter last year, and it includes a poll to […]
Status to launch podcast, unveils redesign
“Status,” the media newsletter from Oliver Darcy, plans to launch a podcast in the next month and has rolled out a redesign. Darcy writes, “Next month, we’re planning to launch the Status podcast, a new way to bring our stories to life. Hosted by Jon and me, the show will take you deeper into the biggest […]
Founder Griffey on what Industry Dive got right
Sean Griffey, until recently the CEO of Industry Dive, joined Brian Morrissey on “The Rebooting Show” to discuss the big things Industry Dive, and by extension a lot of B2B, got right. Here are some highlights: Focus on a specific audience. Industry Dive would turn off ads if it had a story picked up by […]
Darcy hires CNN’s Passantino
Oliver Darcy’s “Status” media newsletter has hired Jonathan Passantino, a CNN deputy managing editor, to be executive editor. Passantino has been with CNN for more than five years. He has been the editorial leader of CNN’s daily news coverage of the media industry and editor of the acclaimed “Reliable Sources” newsletter, which Darcy previously wrote, chronicling […]
