This cheat sheet focuses on national media with journalists based in Chicago. It doesn't include media brands based in Chicago and focused on that region and market.
Few publications have innovated like Quartz. It launched in 2012 as "mobile-first" and raced to embrace native advertising. Its first news app was a chatbot. It created amazing visuals and posted the code on GitHub. It had obsessions, not beats. So why is Quartz in trouble?
This cheat sheet is really two lists. In one we look at targets who predicted 2019 trends in 2018 in hopes they will do it again soon. In the other we look at targets who already have predicted 2020 trends, in hopes they revise them soon. Please share what you hear.
Get ready to pitch PitchBook News. It won't seek your product news. It might want your funding news. For sure, PitchBook News will sink or swim on its data and the context that editors can bring to it.
With tech IPOs looking a bit shaky these days, mergers and acquisitions become more important to the tech world. At a subscriber's request, here's a cheat sheet with 12 edit shops that focus on M&A, with contact info for what we believe to be the go-to journalist.
Most in-house PR pros crave lengthy Tier 1 narratives focused only on their company. Agencies want them focused on the lucrative client. Mock-ups can help. Why not write — at length — the story you envision? We did just that for a subscriber and here’s what we learned.
It's been just five weeks since the soft launch of Marker, the new business publication from Medium. Based on an analysis of the 36 articles published so far, the content is predominatly business advice for startups -- and not appreciably different from what readers can find elsewhere.
If you're interested in state-of-the-art storytelling, look no further than last week's special report from the New York Times. Titled "The Office: An In-Depth Analysis of Workplace User Behavior," it's not necessarily something to read -- it's something to play with.
Every CEO profile counts these days. Every enterprise software story does, too. So when we saw Financial Times west coast editor Richard Waters dedicate more than 1,000 words to PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, that was a big deal. How did that story come about?
It's too good to be true: the names and contact info for sixteen editors who oversee product selection in holiday gift guides? We scoured LinkedIn and followed chains until we found -- in our best estimation -- a core group of decision-makers who can put the clients' products on the holiday short list.
By now you know about Axios and its "smart brevity" (which an Axios comms pro once described as "going deep, writing short"). More than a slogan, smart brevity is a bullet-based, easily scannable writing style designed to convey information clearly at a glance. And now it's more than a writing style...
This cheat sheet is a bit different -- a loose "org chart" of edit operations at Forbes, CNN and AP. It's presented as a list, not a chart. It doesn't contain every name in each of these three huge organizations, but it does frame the top of each. None of those three orgs offer a masthead, so enjoy. Input and refinements welcome.
