
Eric Savitz: Edit, PR, Corporate Comms, and The Journey Continues
If you can name somebody other than Eric Savitz that has more than three decades of experience in across, edit, PR, and corporate content, let us know.

If you can name somebody other than Eric Savitz that has more than three decades of experience in across, edit, PR, and corporate content, let us know.

You’re not going to get on Bloomberg TV without impressing either one or both of these women, so make sure you read up.

Perhaps you saw Joanna Glasner’s July 16th CrunchBase News story about the spike in cybersecurity funding.
Cybersecurity was a hot area for venture investment in the first half of 2025, with total funding to the space hitting its highest level in three years… overall, we counted at least 11 rounds of $100 million or more for security- and privacy-focused startups in Q2.

Think about when clients first started asking you about podcasts. Five years ago? 10? Podcasts were invented more than 20 years ago.

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So you want your CEO profiled in Tier 1? Fortune this month served up a good reminder that the big publications have channels, and a “profile” may come across differently in each, with different PR outcomes.

Pitching The Atlantic has never been easy. PR pros always know what trade editors care about. Not so with a highly curated publication such as The Atlantic, still driven by the boundary-free judgment of human storytellers.

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You may know John Kell as the author of Fortune’s weekly newsletter, CIO Intelligence. You’d be right, but John’s work also shows up in Fast Company and Business Insider. Few other freelancers have such impact.

SDxCentral is doing something brave: it’s overtly using AI to generate copy and dollars, and in a real sense is gambling its future. The 12-year-old B2B edit brand is past the experimenting-with-AI stage — it’s already in the refinement stage.
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… and rarely reveals it. Roughly 45K opinion recent pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures. Despite this prevalence, Cornell says, “we find that AI use is rarely disclosed: a manual audit of 100 AI-flagged articles found only five disclosures of AI use.”
From WebPro News: Romanian software marketplace Tekpon acquired The Next Web (TNW) from the Financial Times, rescuing the tech media brand from closure.
The day is coming that you will not be able to avoid framing the targets in terms of red or blue. So far you’ve been able to do that. Those days are coming to a close: large swaths of “the audience” are headed in this direction. If you don’t believe it, read this from Bloomberg. You will never see better reporting than this.
Superb reporting from Business Insider on what comes after Google Search. All the experts quizzed. The gist: these technologies and techniques are borderline mythical at this point.
In the latest installment of Sound Thinking...David Strom, a well-known IT reporter and security expert, discusses the threat of AI tricking security systems and luring them to catastrophe. What will that mean to editors? When will it happen? It’s not an if, it’s a when.
Good vision here from Jay Lauf. Interestingly, Jay suggests that B2B publishing will become a service business to B2B pros, providing value directly to individuals and organizations. Static content is dying very quickly. This is the point of the analysis from this great media organization.