so you have all this contact info on LinkedIn News? What can you do with it? Play the long game with it. Build relationships. Overall, to the chagrin of article-placers, LinkedIn News is in the conversation business.
Here’s a list of 64 staffers at LinkedIn News, comprising top leadership and spanning 18 regions worldwide. Fields included: name, title, previous background, current role, hashtags followed, LinkedIn profile and email address.
We’re really trying to thread the needle on this one: who are the consumer tech journalists who aren’t necessarily product reviewers, and who don’t specialize in particular products or brands? Simply put, who are the consumer tech generalists?
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Clients want journalists to cover their press conference in Timbuktu and are willing to pay the T&E. You need last-minute help getting the e-book out the door. Where are the freelancers when you need them? Well, they’re right here in the SWMS tech edit freelancer list.
Getting on the morning shows requires exciting visuals and perhaps some pathos — but most of all you’d want to choose the producer with the seniority level most appropriate for the task. That’s the nature of our latest SWMS cheat sheet.
Here’s a list of eight reporters who cover Africa — general news and business news — for top-tier publications. Included is SimilarWeb traffic data as of June 2021.
Sometimes it pays to go to the top. If you’re pitching something truly conceptual — something that can make a publication look prescient in the long run — then go to the editorial board. We’ve got a list of six boards for you, with contact info.
We’re starting to get valet requests about non-US publications — what are they and where are they? Here’s a working list of 40 tech publications across 11 countries. Pretty much an even split between B2B and B2C.
Here is a list of 26 reporters and producers affiliated with Bloomberg Quicktake. We’re working on email addresses.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton has posted 37 articles on Forbes’s CHRO Network page since Dec. 1. She has an active LinkedIn profile, which advertises a book she wrote. But her X feed and her personal web page both seem to be down. The Dr. happens to be founder and CEO of Tonerra, a company that specializes in content creation, among other things. Strange, then, that Tonerra has no web site of its own. If you happen to see Dr. Hamilton, ask her to call her service.
Today’s Press-Gazette has a fascinating interview with Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, who left the FT to launch The CEO Signal, a weekly newsletter built for CEOs of companies with annual revenues of at least $500M. You can apply to receive it here.
Less than ten individuals were impacted, says a Jan. 15 report in Business Insider. Monitor Fridge Notes for the names as they become known.
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.
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.
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.
