SWMS Service Resumes Today
July 8, 2024
4:26 am
SWMS service resumes today. Thank you for your patience. On Jun. 20, six days after losing Christy, I tested positive for COVID-19 and remained positive
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Odds & Ends & Media Moves
July 5, 2023
7:05 am
Abe Brown is a new deputy editor at The Messenger, building out science and tech coverage. Eric Geller also joined the publication as a cybersecurity
Odds & Ends & Media Moves
June 6, 2023
8:55 am
WSJ reporter Rachel Wolfe now asks PR pros to pitch using this form, which she will use to “solicit sources and other info for my
Odds & Ends & Media Moves
April 23, 2023
1:57 pm
John Simons resigned as a Time executive editor to become a partner at the Brunswick Group. Fellow Time exec ed Ben Goldberger resigned too, but
Odds & Ends & Media Moves
March 9, 2023
10:30 am
Tweeted TechCrunch’s Mary Ann Azevedo on Mar. 8: “For those who wonder why TechCrunch reporters aren’t responding to your email…we are absolutely inundated with pitches.
Odds & Ends & Media Moves
February 16, 2023
8:27 am
An eagle-eyed subscriber alerted us to TechGround, a phony tech news site likely produced with ChatGPT. If you have any info about this clever canard,
Odds & Ends
January 26, 2023
12:55 pm
Haley Weiss started this week as a health and science reporter for Time… Ariana Perez-Castells is a new health and science intern for the WSJ…
Odds & Ends
January 5, 2023
6:28 am
Now in pre-beta, House of Pitch charges you to pitch reporters. “After we ensure everything works smoothly,” say the creators, “we will… start charging $5.00
Latest Media Moves
December 28, 2022
6:35 am
Tom Dotan has joined the WSJ to cover Microsoft and business tech… Natalie Jennings becomes Vox’s managing editor starting next month… Lauren LaCapra joins The Information
Odds & Ends
November 8, 2022
3:10 pm
Emily Chang will leave Bloomberg Technology to develop a suite of Bloomberg TV programs that explore “technology, business and culture,” according to Variety. No successor
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Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’
November 22, 2024
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
Business Insider Reporters Starting to Go on Camera
November 19, 2024
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer
November 13, 2024
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy team” and picked five AI startups to seed their rosters. We’re now in year 2 and it’s time to draft again. The podcasters wonder… which startups do they dump? Which do they add? The player whose startups accumulate the most total value by Nov. 1, 2028 is the winner, so there’s plenty of time to make adjustments. Here’s a link to the AI fantasy team podcast — you may need a password. Not sure.
How Do We Read?
November 9, 2024
This timeless explainer — a powerful blend of visuals and text — will explain the psychology of how we read, as in, how does the mind actually work? Hats off to Message Labs, the producer.
How NYT Uses Gen AI
November 7, 2024
Ars Technica recently filed this revealing piece on how the NYT uses gen AI to analyze gargantuan transcripts, ones that would overwhelm mere mortals. The results still need to be reviewed by humans, but the grunt analysis is done by the LLM. Investigative reporting becomes easier. Journalism is served.
TechTarget Shareholders to Vote on Merger With Informa
November 5, 2024
It was announced long ago, but on Nov, 26 we learn whether TechTarget stockholders want to join forces with Informa and its legion of IT media brands, not least of which is Industry Dive. It will be hard to imagine a rival of equal power, with IDG/Foundry now a shadow of its former self. IDG/Foundry’s lack of investment and focus on cost-cutting will look unwise if TechTarget and Informa do merge.