Fortune hasn’t been “Fortune Magazine” for a while now. The 101-year-old organization is now, more than ever, a conference and community brand that also happens to produce an accompanying web site, newsletters and yes, a magazine. What is PR’s stake in this emerging Fortune?
Q4 is here, and brings with it America’s most dramatic election since 1860. Here are some initial ideas on how things may go. Later in October we’ll ask editors how they’re organizing themselves, as their plans coalesce.
For the third year running, TechCrunch Disrupt featured the use of TechCrunch CrunchMatch, an in-event app that lets attendees connect directly with one another. In an era when IRL events may never be the same, CrunchMatch may prove to be an important marketing advantage, TC having had such a head start.
There may be reverence out there for Harvard Business Review, but MIT Sloan Management Review is very much its equal and then some, editorially speaking. Best of all, its editors sincerely want to hear from you.
Here’s a highly scrollable look back at what we covered during Q3 2020. Check out all the cheat sheets. You’ll still need your login and password to read the articles.
Virtual TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 launched yesterday, the flagship event from Silicon Valley tech edit’s biggest brand. Overall, it went well — so much so that it’s hard to imagine F2F events ever again being produced as they were before the pandemic.
Few topics captivate reporters more than the future. SWMS this week studied the past two “The Future of Everything” reports in the WSJ — and a dozen stories in Fast Company’s The Shape of Tomorrow section — to identify pitch approaches that might work for you.
Subscribers have been asking about CES 2021 — speaking opps, demos, networking as well as media interest in attending. Here’s a round-up of what we know at the moment.
You probably are inundated with new weekly newsletters to evaluate and pitch, but you might want to keep an eye out for this one — even though it remains in private beta. The as-yet unnamed newsletter (it might be called “Reset”) is produced by New York Times senior editor (and former Quartz EIC) Kevin Delaney…
Subscribers routinely ask how they can crack LinkedIn News. What are they doing with all those editors — 75 and counting? Here’s a look at how LinkedIn News sees its role, and how you can make the most of approaching it, and LinkedIn in general.
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Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
