Ramaswamy Leaves TechCrunch for Reuters
November 21, 2022
3:56 pm
Anita Ramaswamy is leaving TechCrunch to be a U.S. columnist at Reuters BreakingViews, covering crypto primarily.
>> Notes
CNBC Reporter Suspicious of PR
November 21, 2022
3:40 pm
CNBC personal finance senior editor Jim Pavia posted this on Twitter: “A PR rep pitched an op/ed and said it was exclusive to CNBC. We
Morning Brew Lays Off 14% of Staff
November 17, 2022
10:56 am
Here’s a Tweet with details.
Through Newly Acquired Industry Dive, Informa is Targeting TechTarget
November 17, 2022
10:31 am
Here’s what Industry Dive co-founder Sean Griffey told the UK-based Press Gazette newsletter: “There’s still 25, 30 more markets on our whiteboard that we really
BuzzFeed Still Losing Money
November 17, 2022
7:58 am
Read about BuzzFeed’s quarterly performance here.
Here’s a Google Doc Listing Former Protocol Reporters
November 16, 2022
2:15 pm
Here’s who is now out there and in play. Email address and link to LinkedIn profile included.
Insider’s Union Flexes Muscle
November 14, 2022
10:33 am
Insider wants to run more of its stories in front of its paywall. Insider’s union is objecting. According to AdWeek, reporters who had previously written
Forbes For Sale, Again
November 11, 2022
4:01 am
A consortium comprised of family offices and global investors is preparing to buy Forbes. No word yet on the price tag.
‘Open’ Stats on 11/8 SWMS Emailer
November 9, 2022
4:45 pm
Here they are: 1 Cheat sheet, quarterly earnings targets 2 Cheat sheet, technology events 3 Cheat sheet, HR verticals 4 LinkedIn Tech Stack analysis 5
Bloomberg EIC Warns Staff about Twitter
November 9, 2022
8:20 am
Seen in social: “In a note to staff today, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait said that recent changes at Twitter have ‘heightened the risk of using
YOUR ACCOUNT
FRIDGE NOTES
‘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.