Cheat Sheet: Substack Fintech Newsletters
January 21, 2025
8:36 am
Substack is producing a fair amount of talented fintech experts; here’s a cheat sheet with eight of them, with contact info and more.
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Updated Cheat Sheet: CEO Profiles
January 21, 2025
8:23 am
Here’s an all-new cheat sheet on Tier 1 CEO profiles, scarcer and more valuable than ever. You might want to bookmark this page and check in now and again. Please let us know when you encounter an opp that isn’t on our list.
Cheat Sheet: Data Privacy Reporters
January 20, 2025
1:13 pm
Below are the names of 16 reporters — mostly from the trades — who regularly cover issues of data privacy. Their articles run the gamut from politics, to law, to breaches, to VC funding of startups in the data privacy space.
Cheat Sheet: Boston-based Cloud Targets
January 16, 2025
4:54 am
At a subscriber’s request, here’s a cheat sheet with ten cloud targets based in Boston. Three of the ten, predictably, work at TechTarget. It’s a sign of the times that no IDG/Foundry names show up on the list.
Cheat Sheet: DC-based Cybersecurity Targets
January 9, 2025
9:39 am
This revision of a June 2023 cheat sheet doubles the number of cybersecurity targets based in the Washington, DC area — from 13 to 26. You’ll find multiple reporters from a single publication only if they write frequently.
Cheat Sheet: Targets Who Cover AI-Powered Search
December 18, 2024
3:26 pm
Back in the late 1980s, Computerworld employed an Internet reporter. That’s right — one reporter to cover every aspect of the Internet. That’s the way it became with the AI beat.
Cheat Sheet: NYC-based Telecom Targets
December 9, 2024
1:11 pm
If you’ve got a telecom announcement coming up, or if a telecom client exec has a half-day to fill in New York, perhaps you’ll find this SWMS cheat sheet helpful.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Quantum Computing Targets
December 4, 2024
12:36 pm
This updated SWMS cheat sheet on quantum computing offers 12 targets, the vast majority operating overseas. It seems like US tech media is staying away from the topic.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Observability Targets
November 25, 2024
10:31 am
In a refresh of the Sept. 2023 cheat sheet, here are the top 12 current observability targets in terms of influence, and how frequently they cover the topic. Six of the 12 didn’t appear on last year’s list
Cheat Sheet: NYT’s San Francisco Bureau
November 20, 2024
4:51 pm
The New York Times employs 14 tech editors in its San Francisco bureau, supervised by technology editor Pui-Wing Tam and deputy tech editor Jim Kerstetter. How many are actually pitchable?
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FRIDGE NOTES
Paging Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes Contributor
January 21, 2025
Dr. Diane Hamilton has posted 37 articles on Forbes’s CHRO Network page since Dec. 1. She has an active LinkedIn profile, which advertises a book she wrote. But her X feed and her personal web page both seem to be down. The Dr. happens to be founder and CEO of Tonerra, a company that specializes in content creation, among other things. Strange, then, that Tonerra has no web site of its own. If you happen to see Dr. Hamilton, ask her to call her service.
Semafor Launches Newsletter for CEOs
January 21, 2025
Today’s Press-Gazette has a fascinating interview with Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, who left the FT to launch The CEO Signal, a weekly newsletter built for CEOs of companies with annual revenues of at least $500M. You can apply to receive it here.
TechCrunch Layoffs
January 15, 2025
Less than ten individuals were impacted, says a Jan. 15 report in Business Insider. Monitor Fridge Notes for the names as they become known.
‘Bloomberg Tech’ Now Open for Registration
January 6, 2025
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.
Congress to Investigate the Omnicom-IPG Deal
December 20, 2024
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.
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.