Who covers social media? It’s tough to tell since social media is so often casually mentioned in so many kinds of stories. Here’s a list of 14 scribes — overwhelmingly from Tier 1 — whom you can pitch on behalf of clients focused on social media platforms.
Here’s a list of a dozen travel writers, mostly freelance. They represent a strong cross-section of Tier 1 and trades.
It’s not too early to bear down on NFT reporters — here’s a list of 14. Many are tire-kicking at the moment, touching upon NFTs as part of a wider beat. Soon we should expect NFTs to be their own beat, living somewhere between crypto and e-commerce.
Concerts are on the way back. Who covers that? We’ve got nine names for you, some national, some regional.
Here are 13 experts who turn up quoted in the cloud coverage you seek. A few blog or contribute to media brands. We tried including names you might not be familiar with. Who are we missing?
Agricultural technology has emerged as a beat in its own right, after being nestled within clean/green tech for a decade or so. Here’s a list of 15 targets, comprising trades and verticals and an occasional Tier 1.
Here’s a list of reporters who cover consumer packaged goods, with a focus on grocery — a mix of Tier 1, trades and verticals.
Here is a pun-free list of journalists who cover cannabis usage and the industry that has grown around it. OK, maybe not pun-free.
There must be fifty ways to cover cloud. Here we explore the bare metal angle, offering a dozen names, some familiar, some probably not.
Covering the space business is hotsy-totsy these days. The fact that Musk and Bezos are involved hasn’t hurt. The “space” beat isn’t everywhere yet, but a look at this cheat sheet can help spot the contours. We favored Tier 1 as best we could. Still, whom are we missing?
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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.
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.
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.
