FT Invests In Biopharma Pub
April 5, 2023
5:40 am
The Financial Times is now a majority shareholder in Endpoints News, a vertical covering biopharma. It’s not the first time that the FT grew by
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BuzzFeed Said to Be Using AI to Write Travel Articles
March 31, 2023
2:19 pm
Great reporting from Futurism’s Noor Al-Sibai and Jon Christian. Despite vowing not to do this, it looks like BuzzFeed chief Jonah Peretti can’t resist selling
A Leftover from Our Mar. 30 Cybersecurity Deep-Dive
March 30, 2023
4:17 am
The following didn’t quite fit with our Mar. 30 cybersecurity deep-dive but we still wanted to share it: This hunger for context is why we
12 Months of Wired for… $5
March 29, 2023
3:00 pm
Condé Nast cut the price of a Wired subscription from $29.95 a year to $5 a year. This is how far the publisher will go
Coming Soon: Charisma as a Service (CaaS)
March 28, 2023
5:33 am
Don’t know what to say on a job interview, or a date? In a recent hackathon, Stanford researchers used AR glasses, voice recognition and ChatGPT
Publishers are Losing Visibility in Google Search Results
March 23, 2023
9:11 am
The publications in question are UK-based. Still, the author’s observations about Google bode ill for US publishers as well.
Biz Carson to Bloomberg
March 14, 2023
6:15 am
Biz now covers “the intersection of money and Silicon Valley” for the Bloomberg Wealth section (not Brad Stone‘s team).
G/O Media Sells Lifehacker to Ziff Davis
March 14, 2023
6:12 am
Axios’s Sara Fischer has the scoop.
Behind the WSJ’s Attack on ‘Woke’ SVB
March 14, 2023
6:01 am
Twitter blew up yesterday about the WSJ’s suggestion that SVB’s problems may have stemmed from “diversity demands.” Absolutely no one should be surprised by this
ICYMI: SMK at SdXCentral
March 13, 2023
5:24 pm
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
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‘Bloomberg Tech’ Now Open for Registration
January 6, 2025
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.
Congress to Investigate the Omnicom-IPG Deal
December 20, 2024
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.
SWMS Predictions for 2025
December 10, 2024
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.
Talk About Confidentiality…
December 10, 2024
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.
Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’
November 22, 2024
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
Business Insider Reporters Starting to Go on Camera
November 19, 2024
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.