SWMS Q&A: Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company

Fast Company EIC Brendan Vaughan had a busy week this week, chairing the publication's tenth annual Innovation Festival. On Sept. 11 Brendan made time for

SWMS Q&A: Jon Fortt, CNBC

No one interviews more CEOs than Jon Fortt. Now in his 14th year at CNBC, the TV co-anchor and podcaster enjoys interviewing founders too. Jon

Q&A: Jim Aley, Deputy Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek

Think back to what you were doing in 1992. Jim Aley was writing features for Fortune. Eight years later he was editing them for Business

Q&A: Timothy B. Lee, ‘Understanding AI’

You may be familiar with Timothy B. Lee's work from The Washington Post, Vox or Ars Technica -- he worked at all three. Today Tim

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SiliconANGLE Media Launches 27 Awards

SiliconANGLE Media has launched the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards, comprising 27 awards focused on companies, people and products.

SWMS Deep-Dive: Innovation Edit

This SWMS deep-dive on innovation edit started out as a cheat sheet -- but sadly, there just aren't that many targets. There are some. Innovation seems to be too abstract a

Make A Two-Person Podcast Out Of Any Text File Or PDF

If you've ever listened to a podcast, you'll want to spend six minutes listening to this. It's an experimental audio file produced by a new Google tool called NotebookLM. It turns

Cheat Sheet: Food & Beverage Targets

Here are 14 F&B targets, almost exclusively in Tier 1 or close to, These reporters follow the food & beverage industry in a B-to-B way; they are not focused on

Cheat Sheet: ‘Predictions 2025’ From Substack Newsletters and Podcasts

Here's a cheat sheet with nine Substack newsletters and seven indie podcasts that offered predictions for 2024. Odds are good they will offer predictions again soon, for 2025. You'll find

Cheat Sheet: Predictions 2025

This year's cheat sheet contains 63 entries, up just a bit from 61 last year. Once again, Forbes offers the most potential, with several of its contributors likely to explore

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TechCrunch Redesigns

TechCrunch redesigned this week. Still green, less clutter. Built for the phone. Events and newsletters rank higher in the home page scroll than startups, venture and AI. No enterprise section. Parent Yahoo invested this money to build engagement. More changes due in 2025, EIC Connie Loizos says.

Wired To Launch Awards Program

Adweek’s Mark Stenberg reports that Wired is getting into the awards business. The Wired 101 Awards will debut in October. Be on the lookout for the announcement.

BI’s AI-based Paywall Increased Conversions by 75 Percent

BI’s publishing software knows what you’ve clicked on before and where you came from. Through Google Analytics, BI also knows how all readers react to certain content. Once you visit, BI knows whether to ask you to subscribe, or to register, or just to let you see everything for just that one visit. Conversions rose 75 percent this year. Digiday got the scoop (subscription required).

A Forbes Within Forbes

Fascinating piece from Lars Lofgren about how a Forbes subsidiary — under the Forbes name — has managed to dominate Google search results…

…and now it turns out that Forbes — both iterations — are set to be purchased by the venture arm of Koch Industries. Nice scoop, Sara.