The creator phenomenon is a tough one to simplify for a cheat sheet; this one is equal parts product reviewers and analytical reporters. Then again, multiple entry points can make a cheat sheet more valuable.
Here’s a cheat sheet with 15 targets who cover Kubernetes. It’s a different take on the devops and open source names you already know. Several folks at the New Stack cover Kubernetes — Joab writes the most.
Lots of people cover cloud these days but who’s at the core of it? This SWMS cheat sheet offers 17 targets across Tier 1, trades and verticals. The challenge was not to omit obvious go-to’s, but still come up with targets you may not have considered.
This short-and sweet cheat sheet will guide you to edit shops that produce luxury gift guides. You may get a kick out of the products and services of appeal to the rich.
In B2B, design often refers to silicon and semiconductors. But just as often, it means the art and science of building elegant, successful consumer-facing products and services. This makes it challenging to build a cheat sheet…
Here are seven podcasts produced by legit experts in the design field. The podcasts are updated frequently, so there appears to be a good amount of “inventory” for you to pitch to.
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Axios and Fortune continue to be star performers in the world of Tier 1 edit, according to the latest data from Similarweb.
From June 2023 through June 2024, Axios increased its readership by 47.5 percent, from 22.5M monthly visitors to 31.1M on a trailing 12-month basis. How does Axios do it? Smart management, smart verticals, smart brevity.
It’s been more than two years since SWMS chatbot research has been updated. The June 2022 cheat sheet is now deleted; check out the 11 names in the fresh one below.
This cheat sheet was born from a valet request for reporters who are covering corporate sponsorships of the Olympics — which will come and go. Fact is, most if not all of these 11 journalists stand to cover sponsorships in general — if the deal was interesting enough.
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Steve is a longtime friend of SWMS and worked at subscriber LaunchSquad before moving on to IBM, Salesforce and now Anthropic. Steve knows exactly how to harness Claude’s power for comms purposes. Follow him and learn.
Press Gazette has a great story about Google reintroducing AI summaries into search results — less so in queries about breaking news, but definitely when someone searches for trend or how-to info. Convenient for users, maybe… but publishers stand to lose a ton of long-tail traffic because of this. No wonder the vast majority of publisher “innovation” is about commerce or consulting and no longer builds upon journalism.
CNBC Make It had a popular video franchise called My Biggest Lessons, in which CEOs shared something valuable that they learned along the way. No new segments have appeared since May 31. We’ll monitor this for you.
Great reporting from Mark Stenberg at Adweek. Two departures on the sales side seem to have hurt. The story also suggests that former Fortune CEO Alan Murray — who said he was retiring — may turn up at WSJ. Fortune is said to have released Murray from his noncompete, taking his word that he was ending his career.
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Ten months ago SWMS spotlighted five up-and-coming Fortune reporters, suggesting that PR get to know these rookies. Where are they now? Jane Thier continues to excel in the Success section. Ruth Umoh now edits Next To Lead. Kylie Robison split for The Verge. Rachyl Jones is a fellow at Semafor. Alexandra Sternlicht this summer won a Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia. Competition for this is brutal — congrats Alexandra!
