Reporters Who Cover AI in Search
June 25, 2025
1:13 pm
You need to be logged in to view this content. Please Log In. Not a Member? Join Us
>> Research
Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Funding News
June 3, 2025
11:58 am
Below are 23 reporters known to cover funding news. The idea behind this cheat sheet is to capture the core group. To do this, we sometimes had to include more than one reporter per publication.
Cheat Sheet: Customer Success Podcasts
February 11, 2025
6:26 am
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.
Cheat Sheet: Tier 2 Opportunities in AI
February 11, 2025
4:41 am
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?
SWMS ‘Sound Thinking’: Analytics In the Newsroom
February 7, 2025
2:04 pm
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, under-ten-minute video podcast.
Cheat Sheet: Substack Cybersecurity Targets
February 3, 2025
12:27 pm
Here’s a cheat sheet with ten authors of cybersecurity newsletters on Substack. All are men, and few are Americans.
Cheat Sheet: Substack AI Newsletters
January 23, 2025
5:44 am
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.”
Cheat Sheet: Substack Fintech Newsletters
January 21, 2025
8:36 am
Substack is producing a fair amount of talented fintech experts; here’s a cheat sheet with eight of them, with contact info and more.
Updated Cheat Sheet: CEO Profiles
January 21, 2025
8:23 am
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.
Cheat Sheet: Data Privacy Reporters
January 20, 2025
1:13 pm
Below are the names of 16 reporters — mostly from the trades — who regularly cover issues of data privacy. Their articles run the gamut from politics, to law, to breaches, to VC funding of startups in the data privacy space.
YOUR ACCOUNT
FRIDGE NOTES
Xania Rockets Up the Charts
September 22, 2025
Can you imagine not needing to be a human being to be a superstar? You may remember Max Headroom. There’s plenty of examples of technology personas, but AI is a different world altogether. Is there a tech media angle to this item? Not really, but here she is — Xania.
BI, Wired Tricked By AI Freelance ‘Author’
August 21, 2025
This is a must-read article about both Business Insider and Wired being tricked by a phony freelance reporter writing phony stories. If BI and Wired can be fooled, everybody can be fooled.
SWMS ‘Sound Thinking’: David Strom on AI
July 21, 2025
Veteran tech journalist David Strom is working with a couple of AI developers to understand exactly the nature of his writing as it has unfolded over the years. In this edition of Sound Thinking, David shares his learnings and where everything might go.
Catch Up on SDxCentral
July 20, 2025
It’s been tough to keep track of SDxCentral this year, with the sale… management moves… Here’s a podcast and an article that will help you catch up.. thank you, Ben, for the assistance.
Layoffs at Informa Techtarget
July 18, 2025
Newly merged TechTarget and Informa this month laid off 10 percent of their employees. Check out the euphemism in the 8-K: “[the] net reduction [will be] up to approximately 10% of the Company’s current global colleague base.” That just beats all, doesn’t it?