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Cheat Sheet: IoT Targets

When indie IoT journalist Stacey Higginbotham ceased publishing Stacey On IoT in August 2023, PR pros mourned. Technical and personable, Stacey was in a class by herself. Still, we have found 17 targets worth pitching.

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Cheat Sheet: Workplace Podcasts

We came up with a half-dozen podcasts that focus on workplace issues. Contact info included. Most are backwaters. Check out the Adam Grant one; he is affiliated with TED.

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Cheat Sheet: Workplace Reporters

Here’s a cheat sheet with 15 targets who cover workplace issues, ranging from real estate to DEI. Watch for our companion cheat sheet on newsletters and podcasts that cover this trend.

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Cheat Sheet Lite: Tier 1 Columnists

Here’s a cheat sheet with 24 columnists (and reviewers) who write for WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg and the FT. Columnists are typically tough to pitch, being the creatures of opinion they are.

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Tier 1 on YouTube, By the Numbers

As a companion piece to our Tier 1 on TikTok cheat sheet (Oct. 22), here’s a look at Tier 1’s presence on YouTube. You’ll see some outliers in the list as well. We organized the cheat sheet by YouTube followers, in descending order.

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Cheat Sheet: Entrepreneur Staff Editors

Entrepreneur Magazine doesn’t make it easy for PR pros. It publishes no masthead, or even an “About Us” page. Determine who’s on staff and who’s a contributor is quite the challenge. This cheat sheet is as close as one can come — featuring eight names.

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When Publishers Ditch Readers Altogether…

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.

Next Big Thing: BrainTech

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

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

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.

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