Wed, 2020-03-18 07:23
Sam
ZDNet's Larry Dignan on Covid-19's Long-Term Implications, and What to Pitch
Global business may never be the same once we exit the coronavirus crisis, says ZDNet global EIC Larry Dignan. In a video posted on TechRepublic and in an exclusive SWMS video interview, Larry says that companies may come to realize they're spending money they never really needed to spend -- on things like...
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Strangely enough, amid all the innovation that surrounds us, few reporters patrol the emerging technologies beat. How can that be? After researching this long-in-coming SWMS deep-dive, we came to realize that “emerging technologies” is one of those boil-the-ocean beats that just cannot be covered in the literal sense of that word -- nor should anyone try.
So... if “emerging technologies” is not a thing, and you have a trend piece to pitch about a cool new technology, who then does one approach? Here’s a cheat sheet on broad-minded reporters who see the synthesis of things, across tech categories. We also extend this list with reporters who specialize in AI, a core tech across nearly everything in our world.
Celebrating its sixth anniversary this Spring, The New Stack has built a successful tech edit franchise without relying upon web advertising or subscription revenue. Founder and publisher Alex Williams relies instead on sponsored posts, podcasts and ebooks dedicated to deep-tech education and professional development -- augmented by news and analysis from staff editors and contributors.
What do you do when you're pitching a tech story you don't understand, to journalists who understand it well? You've got your hands on a juicy story about Kubernetes container management, or blockchain, or quantum computing, or any of the other advanced technologies pushing us ever forward into the future. 
Telling stories with data comes down to the questions you have and where to start looking. When interviewing someone on a stage, you need to know the right questions to ask and how to guide the conversation. When interviewing a spreadsheet, you still need to know the right questions to ask and how to guide the conversation.
Finding out that a client lied to you can be demoralizing, but it can also become a larger business problem if you don’t identify the lie until it's too late.
QuinStreet has sold all 35 of its B2B publications -- eWeek, Datamation, IT Business Edge among them -- to Technology Advice, a Nashville-based B2B data company that helps IT pros determine which products to buy. Edit operations at the publications will not change in the short term, according to eWeek EIC Chris Preimesberger.
A veteran of IDG and TechTarget and now on her own as consultant to CIOs, Maryfran Johnson discusses how best to pitch editors who serve C-title executives, in the first SWMS video teleconference of 2020. Visit MFJ Media to learn more about what Maryfran is up to these days.
Will Covid-19, better known as the coronavirus, change how tech and business reporters spend their time? Yes, and the changes have begun. We're querying tech and business editors and will update this article throughout coming days. Here's what we've learned from the front lines so far.
[Please welcome back SWMS contributing editor Lindsay Ciulla, a senior VP with (SWMS subscriber) Weber Shandwick Worldwide. --Ed.] Well friends, in what feels like the blink of an eye we’re somehow halfway through the first quarter of 2020 -- in a decade that (at least when I was growing up) promised flying cars and travel via teleportation.
We recently conducted a video meeting with a subscriber who sought SWMS POV on the following media relations questions. With the subscriber's permission, here are the questions and our responses. Hope you find them useful. 
