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Cheat Sheet: DEI Targets, Orgs, Resources

Would we do a DEI deep-dive without a Google Doc? Contained in this one is a list of 31 (and counting) reporters focused on DEI. Also included are tabs on DEI nonprofit organizations likely to be quoted by journalists, along with DEI survey and research tools and DEI awards. 

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Cheat Sheet: Best Places to Work Awards

Few PR coups are bigger than winning a Best Places to Work award. Now you’ve got a place to hunt: here’s our Cheat Sheet with 48 opportunities, many of them vertical as offered by Fortune. Big thanks to SWMS contributing editor Rhiannon Pacheco for her hard work.

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Cheat Sheet: Pay-to-Play CEO Titles

Now and again we receive a valet request for a list of publications that profile C-title executives for a fee. We hereby present such a list. Web traffic is thin to these titles. Caveat emptor.

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Cheat Sheet: 2020 Holiday Gift Guides

Few topics interest our subscribers more than, “Whom do we pitch for holiday gift guides?” Thanks to contributing editor Rhiannon Pacheco, we proudly present a working list of whom to pitch, with contact info and commentary designed to boost your chances. Seventy guides in all.

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Cheat Sheet: Personal Finance Reporters

Whether they’re millennials or Gen Z, many younger Americans are starved for guidance on money management — and of course tech and business editorial is happy to oblige. Here’s our cheat sheet on reporters who cover the tech and relevant techniques.

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Cheat Sheet: M&A Reporters

Hard to tell whether there will be a lot of M&A this year — private equity is still in good shape — but anyway, here’s a list of reporters who cover deals and M&A.

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SWMS Predictions for 2025

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.

Talk About Confidentiality…

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.

Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’

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

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