Entrepreneur Magazine doesn’t make it easy for PR pros. It publishes no masthead, or even an “About Us” page. Determine who’s on staff and who’s a contributor is quite the challenge. This cheat sheet is as close as one can come — featuring eight names.
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Here’s a short list of cybersecurity awards, mostly US-based but we included a couple over in the UK. This is a cheat sheet “lite” because it lacks contact info. Still, the info provided will get you started.
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Here’s a list of 55 CNBC producers and on-air reporters, organized by show and job title. We’ve got all the email addresses for you, as well as a comment field.
Here is a cheat sheet with pointers to nine academic titles that can deliver prestige and credibility. The downside: with the exception of Harvard Business Review, relatively few read these publications.
Here’s a cheat sheet with 22 tech reporters based in greater New York City. We focused as best we could on B2B tech and on the individuals who wrote more frequently than their peers.
Who’s out there covering mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs)? Honestly, few if anyone, specifically. MVNOs mostly get covered as part of broader mobile or telecom beats.
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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.”
