🔗Links etc. 01/30/23
In this issue: Media layoffs & media jobs: Context Collapse #188
As I write this, my four-year-old is home from preschool with a sore throat and superhuman amounts of energy that is causing him to jump off walls, furniture and/or dimension vortexes. Sick day is interesting and may the kiddo get well soon.
Now onto the links.
Twitter advertisers pull back spending due to laid off ad reps (Alex Cantrowitz / Big Technology)
A checklist of eighteen pitfalls in AI journalism (Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan)
Promoting your book as an introvert in the age of TikTok (Julie Vick / Jane Friedman)
New York Post business desk hiring tech and general assignment writer (Alexandra Steigrad)
How to grow your newsletter audience (Lulu Cheng Meservey / Flack)
ChatGPT can’t forecast market any better than expert investors (Sam Potter & Katherine Greifeld / Bloomberg)
Russia bans independent news site Meduza (Meduza)
Avocados From Mexico including ChatGPT QR code in Super Bowl commercial (Asa Hiken / Ad Age)
People and InStyle publishers Dotdash Meredith laying off 7% of staff (Katie Robertson / New York Times)
Bloomberg LP hiring 1000 new positions in data, product, engineering, other areas (Lucia Moses / Insider)
Regional pizza social media real talk. (Twitter thread)
