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Please enjoy these insights from CIO Dive senior reporter Matt Ashare, from an interview conducted in February. You will find Matt thoughtful and generous. Matt, we're fellow Bay Staters. Were you born in Mass.? I was not born in Massachusetts, but I spent an awful lot of time there. I went to high…

A subscriber recently asked for a POV on where the low-hanging fruit was in the world of AI coverage. As subjective as that might be, it's still worth trying. Who might you suggest?

Here’s a baker’s dozen’s worth of podcasts focused on customer success. Included are podcasts from Forrester and vendor Intercom — those may not be overly pitchable. The rest probably are.

Watch and listen as SWMS contributing editor David Strom discusses with Sam Whitmore his analytics experiences at CSO Online and elsewhere. Hear why analytics are both useless and valuable, and be ready to jump on the one thing all passionate PR pros should do upon completing this breezy…

The WSJ this week launched CEO Brief, a newsletter designed to inform readers, and to attract new members to the WSJ Leadership Institute. This organization is already a Dow Jones profit center, and a great example of how Tier 1 can lessen dependence on advertising. Former Fortune CEO Alan Murray…

Fast Company's Lydia Dishman has joined (SWMS subscriber) Method Communications as VP of content strategy. Lydia joins an already strong content team, which includes former NY Times reporter Tim Race and B2B tech edit vet John Foley.

This is majorly tl;dr, but recent research from FT Strategies and Reuters empirically uncovers every trend there is, when it comes to the health of the media business. In short, "the media" is barely breakeven, here and around the world. AI search may prove devastating.

Here’s a cheat sheet with ten authors of cybersecurity newsletters on Substack. All are men, and few are Americans.

Unionized writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative AI in member newsrooms, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The union -- Writers Guild of America, East -- represents Fast Company, Wired and many other prominent titles. The union won agreement that publications "will not…

Axios reported on Jan. 24 that private equity firm Blackstone will sell IDG/Foundry, publishers of InfoWorld, Computerworld and Network World (and owners of IDC) to another private equity firm called Regent, which bought streaming video channel Cheddar in 2023. Remains to be seen how the ownership…

"I'm leaving to build something new," Alex posted on X today. He spent 12 years at Forbes as a reporter and a builder of databases and lists. It's time he gets to keep the money.

TC's Rebecca Bellan finds fault with Quartz for how poorly its AI rewrote a recent story of hers. Quartz doesn't attempt to hide its use of AI. This will be the year everyone assumes that all publications use AI one way or another, and few if any people will come to care.

How many fintech reporters operate out of Washington, DC? This cheat sheet captures ten, across big titles and trades alike. If you happen to know of a DC-based Bloomberg fintech reporter, please drop a note. Seems like there should be one. In the sidebar, DeepSeek and Claude 3.5 Sonnet tackled the…

Here’s an updated cheat sheet with 11 Substack newsletters focused on AI. The selection comprises a combo of analysis-driven work from experts, and newsletters that blend original work with ICYMI links to “AI news of the week.”

Dr. Diane Hamilton has posted 37 articles on Forbes's CHRO Network page since Dec. 1. She has an active LinkedIn profile, which advertises a book she wrote. But her X feed and her personal web page both seem to be down. The Dr. happens to be founder and CEO of Tonerra, a company that specializes in…

Here's an all-new cheat sheet on Tier 1 CEO profiles, scarcer and more valuable than ever. You might want to bookmark this page and check in now and again. Please let us know when you encounter an opp that isn't on our list.

Today's Press-Gazette has a fascinating interview with Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, who left the FT to launch The CEO Signal, a weekly newsletter built for CEOs of companies with annual revenues of at least $500M. You can apply to receive it here.

Substack is producing a fair amount of talented fintech experts; here's a cheat sheet with eight of them, with contact info and more.

At a subscriber’s request, here’s a cheat sheet with ten cloud targets based in Boston. Three of the ten, predictably, work at TechTarget. It’s a sign of the times that no IDG/Foundry names show up on the list.

Less than ten individuals were impacted, says a Jan. 15 report in Business Insider. Monitor Fridge Notes for the names as they become known.