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October 20, 2022 12:55 pm

The Wall Street Journal’s newly launched TikTok channel now boasts 34 videos and almost 8,000 followers… Indrani Sen left NYT to edit features at Fortune…

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September 20, 2022 9:59 am

TechCrunch enterprise reporter Ron Miller usually does the interviewing, but last week, on LinkedIn Live, Ron gave an interview to CRM expert Brent Leary. Here’s

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August 17, 2022 8:34 am

Edit vet Damon Beres now is a senior editor covering tech for The Atlantic. Quickest to congratulate him on Twitter: Danielle Sacks, Mat Honan, Farhad

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July 14, 2022 5:55 am

Axios Communicators, a weekly newsletter for “internal and external communicators,” arrives this month. It’s edited by new arrival Eleanor Hawkins, whose background is politics… Fortune

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June 23, 2022 2:29 pm

Has the NYT’s David Gelles quit Corner Office or not? Seven 2022 Corner Office columns appear on David’s own coverage page that have not shown

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May 26, 2022 9:22 am

CMO specialist Marty Swant left Forbes and will announce his next reporting job soon… Kent German quit CNET after 18 years and says he will

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May 12, 2022 9:57 am

Bradley Davis left the New York Post to become director of business news at Insider. There he will oversee reporters who cover breaking news for

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April 26, 2022 10:54 am

Karen Hao left MIT Tech Review to cover China tech and society for the WSJ. No word yet on her replacement… Sharon Goldman joined VentureBeat

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FRIDGE NOTES

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

The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer

November 13, 2024

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.

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