Cheat Sheet: AI In Banking
April 6, 2024
8:03 am
Strangely enough, there’s not a whole lot of coverage on how banks are using AI. Where are all the curious journalists?
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Paid Content Rate: Solutions Review
April 1, 2024
4:55 am
If you’ve tried placing a contributed post with Solutions Review lately, you may have learned that the publication no longer runs them for free. Prompted by a request from an SWMS subscriber, we dropped the publication a note.
Update: Paid Content Directory 2024
March 25, 2024
4:53 pm
We’re proud to introduce the SWMS Paid Content Directory 2023. Modeled after our contributed content gatekeepers directory, the resource is designed to help point our subscribers in the right direction when they have budget to spend on “saying it the way you want to.”
Paid Content Rates for VentureBeat
March 25, 2024
2:05 pm
VentureBeat strategic sales director stepped up with lots of useful detail on VB’s paid content programs. “We have a range of content offerings — featured video interviews, branded content and content with amplification,” Todd wrote in an email.
Paid Content Rates: Fast Company
March 25, 2024
6:44 am
Here are the latest paid content rates from Fast Company. The submission below is provided by FC account director Justine DeGaetano. Fast Company will write the post for you, at a premium.
Cheat Sheet: Healthcare & Healthtech Podcasts
March 24, 2024
6:55 am
There are so many, and so many have lapsed. That’s why you need our curated list of healthcare and health tech podcasts. Our grid contains contact and social media data on hosts, as well as links to the podcasts themselves.
Cheat Sheet: Quantum Cybersecurity Reporters
March 21, 2024
6:54 am
Here are 11 reporters who cover quantum technology as applied to cybersecurity. The vast majority are beat reporters. PR pros will note that quantum continues to fascinate trend and big-picture journalists.
Deep Dive: Tier 1 AI Targets and Trends, Nov. 2023-Feb. 2024
March 4, 2024
5:07 am
By subscriber request, we have updated our Sept. 28, 2023 coverage of the top 10 most prolific AI reporters at Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider and the WSJ.
Cheat Sheet: Emerging Tier 1 AI Targets
March 4, 2024
4:12 am
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Cheat Sheet: Targets For ‘Tech and The Law’
February 23, 2024
3:21 pm
Which reporters cover the legal aspects of technology? SWMS research found that, at least for now, there are no reporters — full-time and exclusive — on such a beat. We found a fair amount of “legal” reporters but they’re typically covering crime and the courts.
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When Publishers Ditch Readers Altogether…
June 15, 2025
Media analyst Brian Morrissey predicts that many smaller trade publishers and consumer publishers may one day just ditch readers altogether and simply publish to LLMs under contract and make their money that way. It’s a lot simpler than trying to sell ads to a dwindling reader base.
Axios is Hiring…
June 7, 2025
Axios is hiring a senior tech reporter to cover AI. How long will it take for the “laid-off” to land on their feet? It is already happening.
Next Big Thing: BrainTech
June 5, 2025
From Crunchbase News:
Neuralink’s recent $650 million raise is by far the largest for a neural interface startup on record, but comes as funding to neuroscience startups overall is set to rise sharply this year. All told, funding to the broader category of neuroscience startups totaled $896 million last year and is on track to reach $1.4 billion in 2025.
The Era of ‘Camera-less’ Video
June 4, 2025
From the excellent The Rundown AI newsletter: The future of video content creation is increasingly looking camera-less — with this latest round of upgrades taking avatars from more robotic talking heads to full-fledged actors with more granular control over motion and expressiveness.
Time to get a grip on Veo.
Business Insider Lays Off 20% of Staff
May 30, 2025
The BI culture over the years has been aloof to vendors and definitely PR. Now that many of those affected could use a friend or two, here’s hoping they get the lift they need. Here is the message from BI CEO Barbara Peng.