Cheat Sheet: SF-Based Tech Reporters
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Zoom and Teams play a role but they can never match the dedicated videoconferencing systems built for the big rooms. We found nine targets for this niche, all writing for U.S. publications.
We recently upgraded this cheat sheet to 19 newsletters, all with contact info. We tried to avoid the roll-up newsletters that point to others’ content but offer little of their own. There are a couple in there. Then again, those “digest” newsletters point to still more resources.
We’ve got 11 targets for you, as well as the name of WaPo’s new accessibility engineer. He wrote guidelines for WaPo content that can serve as a guideline for your organization and clients, too.
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Here’s a list of nine podcasts designed to serve retail investors, not the institutional ones. One does need to include Jim Cramer in this media segment. Those listed below are pitchable.
We found two TechRepublic staff reporters and three freelancers who still file copy regularly, and seem to cover the news that our subscribers tend to pitch. Every B2B target counts these days.
This month’s SWMS-Semrush Top 15 Index brings The New Stack, InfoWorld and Fortune into fascinating focus. By studying each publication’s 15 most-read articles in January, February and March, specific themes emerge.
This cheat sheet is a revision of the one published in August 2022. You’ll find new names among the 21 listed. Definitely new is the appearance of generative AI examples.
Here are 20 reporters who cover private equity as an industry or as part of their core beat. We omitted targets in which PE was a passing mention or incidental detail.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy team” and picked five AI startups to seed their rosters. We’re now in year 2 and it’s time to draft again. The podcasters wonder… which startups do they dump? Which do they add? The player whose startups accumulate the most total value by Nov. 1, 2028 is the winner, so there’s plenty of time to make adjustments. Here’s a link to the AI fantasy team podcast — you may need a password. Not sure.