Haven’t heard of Community.co? Oh yes you have. It’s the company that helps Forbes deliver the Forbes Technology Council and eight companion councils. You also know it as the partner behind the Fast Company Executive Board…
Stephanie Neil. Two hats. One job. You may know Stephanie as a senior editor at Automation World, serving since 2015. Since 2018 she has served as EIC of OEM Magazine, which explores…
All too often, PR pros assume that Tier 1 reporters behave like all reporters — they patrol a beat, decide on stories, report them and write them. It’s rarely that linear…
Unlike most reporters you’ll meet, TechCrunch freelancer Amanda Silberling is no introvert. She truly wants you to understand what she does and why.
In June, Ruth Reader begins her seventh year as a Fast Company health tech reporter. Based on our analysis of her 2022 work, Ruth already has what it takes to be a successful analyst or investor. At heart, we suspect she is a storyteller.
We usually don’t profile journalists unless you can pitch them, but we’re making an exception in the case of Similarweb senior insights manager David Carr. Veteran tech PR pros may remember David from his years at InformationWeek. These days, David’s mission is very much like yours…
A veteran of the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the New York Times, Kaiser Health News executive editor Damon Darlin has never been a vendor-centric editor — and he still isn’t. But for thoughtful PR pros there’s a sliver or two of light. There always is.
Forbes senior reporter Kenrick Cai chases Series A funding and spotlights fast-rising startups. Upon graduation from Duke University in June 2019, Kenrick joined Forbes as an intern and worked his way up.
As TechCrunch is to funding news and hot startups, Protocol is to enterprise computing. Last year you couldn’t say that, especially after go-to reporter Joe Williams departed for Bloomberg. This year you totally can. Protocol recently hired three enterprise reporters and seeks two more.
After more than ten successful years at ZDNet and Fortune, Andrew Nusca is wrapping up his first successful year at Morning Brew, the newsletter publisher co-owned by Insider Inc. As executive editor, Andrew oversees the daily Morning Brew flagship newsletter, the one with more than three million daily readers.
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Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
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.
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
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
