Andreessen Horowitz is looking to hire an editor to manage guest posts. The VC firm’s 936-word want ad reveals much about good contributed content. PR pros can go to school on this one, using these universal insights when pitching any outlet.
DEI awareness is one thing, applying its principles through official corporate language quite another. We had the opportunity to examine a style guide produced by a tech company steeped in content publishing. There’s a lot to learn from it.
Three years ago we studied dozens of profiles carrying the headline, ‘Meet the Woman Who…” and “Meet the Man Who…” With gender now so fluid, we wondered whether that’s now an insensitive construct, to be avoided. We asked Tier 1 editors what they thought.
If you’re thinking about pitching a story to Ars Technica, you’d better hurry, because its editors are preparing to go out on strike.
Here is a pun-free list of journalists who cover cannabis usage and the industry that has grown around it. OK, maybe not pun-free.
It’s tough to recover when a key employee jumps ship, but that’s exactly what Decipher EIC Dennis Fisher managed to do, last month hiring Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch from rival Threatpost. Just like that, Decipher again is well-positioned to provide its context and analysis on cyberthreats and the efforts to thwart them.
SWMS contributor Leah McLean writes: Just as reporters need a reason why they should write the story being pitched, buyers of security solutions want useful detail on why they should buy. Being in close contact with these buyers as I am, let me share a real-world scenario.
Here’s a highly scrollable way to see what we produced in the first quarter of 2021. SWMS in Review is well-suited to explain to someone else what SWMS is all about. Statistically speaking, we averaged one cheat sheet and one new pitch opp per week.
Perhaps you saw the headline in HBR: “Women-Led Startups Received Just 2.3% of VC Funding in 2020.” Google — the company — is out to fix that with a recently launched podcast called Founded… and its co-founder welcomes your pitch.
If you weren’t able to place any speakers in the 2021 RSA Conference, join the crowd. Though it’s too late for this year, SecurityCurve CTO Diana Kelley, who also serves on the RSA Conference’s ML/AI program committee, wants you to have the following useful info for next time.
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Working on a pair of @axios pieces... Axios is fast becoming a SaaS vendor in its own right.
Lindsey Sullivan on LinkedIn: Account Executive, Software Sales, Axios HQ
ð¼ Axios HQ's early and sustained success has emboldened both our belief in this product and the investment ...
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Neil Young is taking his music off Spotify because Spotify hosts the Joe Rogan podcast.
Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over ‘False Information About Vaccines’
"They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young," Neil Young wrote in a letter asking Spotify to remove all of his music from the service. "Not both."
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NFT marketplaces had better solve their security problems before government scrutiny begins in earnest
OpenSea Bug Allows Attackers to Get Massive Discount on Popular NFTs
The bug was spotted as early as December 2021.
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This Dropbox tech blog has too many sections to keep fresh.... lead stories here are from 2019
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