SiliconANGLE Media Launches 27 Awards
October 7, 2024
11:35 am
SiliconANGLE Media has launched the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards, comprising 27 awards focused on companies, people and products.
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SWMS Deep-Dive: Innovation Edit
September 23, 2024
5:06 pm
This SWMS deep-dive on innovation edit started out as a cheat sheet — but sadly, there just aren’t that many targets. There are some. Innovation seems to be too abstract a concept for most publications to cover as a beat.
Make A Two-Person Podcast Out Of Any Text File Or PDF
September 16, 2024
5:30 am
If you’ve ever listened to a podcast, you’ll want to spend six minutes listening to this. It’s an experimental audio file produced by a new Google tool called NotebookLM. It turns a text file or PDF into a podcast…
Business Insider Misses The Mark
September 11, 2024
7:07 am
Business Insider’s newly named EIC, Jamie Heller, is exactly what BI needed: an experienced, no-nonsense newspaper pro disinclined to accept shortcuts.
Deep Dive: Fortune’s Edit Churn in 2024
August 26, 2024
4:07 am
Fortune sure does churn through the journalists. In the ten months since we last studied its masthead, 19 editors have departed, while 16 arrived. That’s roughly a 25 percent turnover rate.
Pitching VC Trend Reporters? A Data Storm Is Brewing.
July 24, 2024
8:29 am
Until now at least, PR pros never had to pay much attention to tech analytics platforms such as CrunchBase, PitchBook and CB Insights. Sure, they might have had a blog. But PR was built to pitch publications. The worlds of tech data and tech edit really didn’t intersect.
SWMS Service Resumes Today
July 8, 2024
4:26 am
SWMS service resumes today. Thank you for your patience. On Jun. 20, six days after losing Christy, I tested positive for COVID-19 and remained positive
Analysis: Bloomberg and WSJ Brace For AI
June 10, 2024
7:10 am
Two of the world’s most powerful business publishers are out to refine themselves as the impact of generative AI approaches.
How To Crack Tier 1 With ‘Can They Do It?’
June 3, 2024
6:56 am
It’s been true for years: Tier 1 loves to craft “can they do it?” stories. Some PR pros avoid pitching “can they do it” stories because “what if they can’t?” Why encourage a reporter to think that the company might come up short?
The Elements of Jane Thier’s CEO Profiles
May 13, 2024
1:16 pm
It’s one thing to know that Fortune reporter Jane Thier writes CEO profiles, and quite another to know the ingredients. We analyzed the 12 CEO/founder profiles Jane produced so far this year — and asked Anthropic’s Claude 3 to do the same.
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Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1’s Thought Leadership…
January 3, 2026
… and rarely reveals it. Roughly 45K opinion recent pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures. Despite this prevalence, Cornell says, “we find that AI use is rarely disclosed: a manual audit of 100 AI-flagged articles found only five disclosures of AI use.”
Tekpon Buys The Next Web from The FT
January 3, 2026
From WebPro News: Romanian software marketplace Tekpon acquired The Next Web (TNW) from the Financial Times, rescuing the tech media brand from closure.
Right-Wing Podcasts: Dare You Pitch Them?
November 24, 2025
The day is coming that you will not be able to avoid framing the targets in terms of red or blue. So far you’ve been able to do that. Those days are coming to a close: large swaths of “the audience” are headed in this direction. If you don’t believe it, read this from Bloomberg. You will never see better reporting than this.
GEO and AEO: Be Careful of What You Promise the Clients
November 19, 2025
Superb reporting from Business Insider on what comes after Google Search. All the experts quizzed. The gist: these technologies and techniques are borderline mythical at this point.
AI-Driven Security Threats: A Threat to Edit ‘Shelf Space’ Too?
November 18, 2025
In the latest installment of Sound Thinking...David Strom, a well-known IT reporter and security expert, discusses the threat of AI tricking security systems and luring them to catastrophe. What will that mean to editors? When will it happen? It’s not an if, it’s a when.
Nieman Labs 2026 Predictions for B2B Media
November 11, 2025
Good vision here from Jay Lauf. Interestingly, Jay suggests that B2B publishing will become a service business to B2B pros, providing value directly to individuals and organizations. Static content is dying very quickly. This is the point of the analysis from this great media organization.