We’re starting to get valet requests about non-US publications — what are they and where are they? Here’s a working list of 40 tech publications across 11 countries. Pretty much an even split between B2B and B2C.
You’ll like this comprehensive cheat sheet — compiled by SWMS contributor Rachel Odenweller — containing info on 66 privacy-minded reporters and editors, 13 newsletter authors and nine podcasters. Happy hunting.
You’re going to love this cheat sheet, overseen by SWMS contributor Rhiannon Pacheco. It contains lists of 58 payments reporters, 18 banking reporters, 17 fintech newsletters mostly from Substack, 48 fintech-friendly podcasts, and links to 45 verticals across payments, banking and crypto.
Updated Apr. 21, here’s an updated cheat sheet on business TV bookers, producers and talent. The focus is on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg and Cheddar.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) ranks among the newer acronyms in IT. Analysts and reporters alike specialize in it. Here’s a list of 17 reporters who grasp the topic and write about it regularly.
Open source journalists abound but only a subset focus on containers and security. Here’s 15 of them for you, with contact info as best we can manage.
We should do more cheat sheets on industry analysts. Yes? Here’s a short list of analysts who study the payments space, bordering of course on ecommerce.
By subscriber request, we’ve been looking at which publications will run “Predictions 2021” content and who will do the writing. Here’s the latest, compiled by contributing editor Rhiannon Pacheco. We’ll be updating this GDoc in weeks ahead.
Privacy reporters will have their moment in the 2020s. Traditionally, the privacy beat tends to be folded into cybersecurity. As social media becomes increasingly regulated, the privacy story will be told by privacy reporters. Here are 17 of the leading journalists in the space.
The “culture” beat started out as “how tech impacts culture” but with the quadrafecta of Covid-19, recession, BLM and now the election, culture has come to mean pretty much “life in general.” Here’s a short list of a dozen culture reporters mostly from Tier 1, with links and contact info.
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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.
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.
