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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Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1’s Thought Leadership…
January 3, 2026
… 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.”
Tekpon Buys The Next Web from The FT
January 3, 2026
From WebPro News: Romanian software marketplace Tekpon acquired The Next Web (TNW) from the Financial Times, rescuing the tech media brand from closure.
Right-Wing Podcasts: Dare You Pitch Them?
November 24, 2025
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.
GEO and AEO: Be Careful of What You Promise the Clients
November 19, 2025
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.
AI-Driven Security Threats: A Threat to Edit ‘Shelf Space’ Too?
November 18, 2025
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.
Nieman Labs 2026 Predictions for B2B Media
November 11, 2025
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.