Matt Ashare, CIO Dive

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SWMS Q&A: John Kell, Freelance Writer for Fortune, Fast Company, Business Insider

You may know John Kell as the author of Fortune's weekly newsletter, CIO Intelligence. You'd be right, but John's work also shows up in Fast Company and Business Insider. Few other freelancers have such impact.

SWMS Q&A: Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company

Fast Company EIC Brendan Vaughan had a busy week this week, chairing the publication's tenth annual Innovation Festival. On Sept. 11 Brendan made time for the following SWMS Q&A, in which he discussed the role of AI in innovation...

SWMS Q&A: Jon Fortt, CNBC

No one interviews more CEOs than Jon Fortt. Now in his 14th year at CNBC, the TV co-anchor and podcaster enjoys interviewing founders too. Jon likes to explore the minds of responsible people -- fully responsible, for everything. That's where the lessons are.

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SWMS ‘Sound Thinking’: Rafe Needleman’s AI Advice For AEs and SAEs

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SWMS Deep-Dive: Substack

Think about when clients first started asking you about podcasts. Five years ago? 10? Podcasts were invented more than 20 years ago.

AI Cracks the Code on WSJ CIO Journal

You've always known that it's tough to crack the WSJ CIO Journal. Now thanks to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4, you now know exactly why, and exactly what you can do about it.

Updated Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Cybersecurity Surveys

Here's a cheat sheet comprising 11 reporters who recently covered a cybersecurity survey as news. We carried over three targets from our Sept. 2022 cheat sheet; all other names are new.

Reporters Who Cover AI in Search

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Cheat Sheet: Tier 1 F2F Event Contacts (Updated)

Here’s a cheat sheet on whom to approach and pitch in selected Tier 1 event operations, updated from the Jan. 2024 version. Unlike reporters, event influencers have no content to review.

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ServiceNow Throws Money at Fortune to Jumpstart AI Spending

ServiceNow has launched a special report on Fortune to jumpstart strategic spending on AI, illustrating workarounds for implementation problems, and otherwise illuminating the path to integrating AI into software operations. This is a branding exercise, of course, and perhaps is a sign that earned media is just not going get a strategic job done.

AIQ shows a big idea and how to leverage the prestige of Fortune without having to pitch stories to accomplish that same objective: you can just buy shelf space. In the case of AIQ, Fortune hired freelancer Sage Lazzaro — who used to work on staff there to create high-level content. So let’s keep an eye on this project, monitoring how well-respected it is… and whether its content gets surfaced in search engines.