This list of two dozen targets is a roll-up of cloud targets you already know — and perhaps a few you don’t — as well as Google/Alphabet beat reporters in Tier 1. Hope you find it helpful.
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We have 11 so far and will add. We’re all ears if you have some. It’s amazing how many mental health segments are being aired these days.
Here are names and contact info for 76 GMA producers, writers and executives, including 12 bookers. Search “book” in the comment window to surface them. The predominant email syntax is abcnews dot com…
Looking for Tier 1 SMB targets? There isn’t a whole lot of SMB activity in Tier 1, in part because in the advertiser’s mind, “small business” means “small budget.” There’s that, plus LinkedIn has taken a lot of oxygen out of the room.
Who runs Tier 1 video operations? Here’s who we have for you. We left out Bloomberg from the list but all those players — and there are many — can be found in a separate cheat sheet.
The acronym “CPO” can mean a lot of different things in business and technology. That’s one reason why it’s tough to spot targets who cover chief product officers. Here’s our rundown.
This SWMS cheat sheet is unlike any other we’ve done, combining insights on contributed posts and paid posts across 146 publications in B2B and B2C.
There are hubs out there that serve a given startup scene as well as the startups in it. Because startups are global, we went global with this experimental list of 16 sites, hoping to give you a glimpse into what’s happening from Seattle to South Asia.
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.
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This is majorly tl;dr, but recent research from FT Strategies and Reuters empirically uncovers every trend there is, when it comes to the health of the media business. In short, “the media” is barely breakeven, here and around the world. AI search may prove devastating.
The WSJ this week launched CEO Brief, a newsletter designed to inform readers, and to attract new members to the WSJ Leadership Institute. This organization is already a Dow Jones profit center, and a great example of how Tier 1 can lessen dependence on advertising. Former Fortune CEO Alan Murray runs the institute and is the nominal editor of CEO Brief — and promises to read every bit of reader mail — though he has delegated the writing of the newsletter to subordinates in the early going.
Fast Company’s Lydia Dishman has joined (SWMS subscriber) Method Communications as VP of content strategy. Lydia joins an already strong content team, which includes former NY Times reporter Tim Race and B2B tech edit vet John Foley.
“I’m leaving to build something new,” Alex posted on X today. He spent 12 years at Forbes as a reporter and a builder of databases and lists. It’s time he gets to keep the money.
Axios reported on Jan. 24 that private equity firm Blackstone will sell IDG/Foundry, publishers of InfoWorld, Computerworld and Network World (and owners of IDC) to another private equity firm called Regent, which bought streaming video channel Cheddar in 2023. Remains to be seen how the ownership change will affect IDG’s venerable IT titles, but it’s unlikely their budgets will go up.
Unionized writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative AI in member newsrooms, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The union — Writers Guild of America, East — represents Fast Company, Wired and many other prominent titles. The union won agreement that publications “will not lay off current staff employees due to the use of generative AI,” and also that “advance notice [must be given] if the company plans to make the use of generative AI systems a requirement of [editors’] jobs.”
