Eric Newcomer’s AI Event, Mar. 30
February 22, 2023
10:27 am
Eric Newcomer is hosting a by-invitation-only AI summit Mar. 30 in San Francisco. Only 200 attendees. Here are the details.
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SWMS 2/17 Emailer Stats
February 20, 2023
11:58 am
Here in descending order are the open stats for last Thursday’s SWMS emailer: How to pitch Silverlinings; cheat sheet on consumer tech podcasts; Joe Williams
Editors Coaching Editors
February 16, 2023
10:37 am
There’s a lot of editors-coaching-editors going on these days. Jessica C. Davis is now editorial director of ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert, overseeing the edit teams and
FT’s Tech Tonic Podcast is Discontinued
February 13, 2023
2:40 pm
After 160 episodes, the FT’s Tech Tonic podcast has rolled to a stop. Too bad for those in the crypto and climate tech spaces —
Generative AI Conference is Sold Out
February 9, 2023
11:08 am
Next week’s Generative AI conference in San Francisco, produced by Jasper, is sold out. NYT columnist Kevin Roose will be speaking.
Vendors: Don’t Forget the Contact Info
February 8, 2023
12:02 pm
Bloomberg reporter Matthew Boyle Tweets: “Another hour lost to rooting around a startup’s ‘newsroom’ page, looking in vain through the fawning case studies and trite
Penske Media Buys 20% of Vox Media
February 7, 2023
9:00 am
So 1/5 of The Verge and 1/5 of Vox, and the other titles, now belong to the publisher of Rolling Stone and Women’s Wear Daily.
The Verge: ‘CNET Pushed Reporters to Be More Favorable to Advertisers, Staffers Say’
February 3, 2023
11:28 am
CNET insiders are leaking, helping Mia Sato deliver this powerful story, which alleges that CNET buckles to advertisers, and also, that editors knew about the
CNET and Owner Red Ventures Have a Mess on Their Hands
February 2, 2023
11:28 am
The latest from Futurism: ‘Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content… They’re happy to spoonfeed you unlabeled AI garbage — but
Bloomberg TV to Launch ‘Bloomberg Originals,’ Moves QuickTake to Social
February 2, 2023
11:15 am
Great scoop from the WSJ’s Alexandra Bruell (sub required).
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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.