Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Rural Healthcare
August 5, 2024
1:08 pm
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Similarweb Audience Data: Axios, Fortune Just Keep Growing
July 25, 2024
5:02 am
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.
Cheat Sheet: Chatbot Reporters
July 22, 2024
4:05 pm
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.
Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Corporate Sponsorships
July 16, 2024
4:27 pm
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.
Cheat Sheet: ‘Back-to-School’ Reviewers
July 9, 2024
1:54 pm
f you represent a tech product that fits in a “back to school” category, you had better get those pitches together — the coverage is already appearing. This cheat sheet contains 11 targets, many freelance and connected to a publication’s “list and best of” operations.
Cheat Sheet: Forbes Contributors
June 5, 2024
3:55 pm
At long last, here’s the SWMS cheat sheet on Forbes contributors. Listed are 66 contributors whose work appeared at least once between Apr. 26 and Jun. 5 in either the AI, the cloud and the enterprise tech section.
Cheat Sheet Lite: ‘Women In Tech’ Awards
June 4, 2024
5:27 am
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Cheat Sheet: Tech Policy Reporters
May 30, 2024
1:06 pm
Here’s a cheat sheet with 13 reporters who cover how Washington tries to rein in the forces of technology. Keep an eye on this group… and expect it to grow in coming months.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Semiconductor Reporters
May 24, 2024
9:02 am
Here’s a refresh on our 2022 cheat sheet on semiconductor reporters. We came up with 14 names, mostly in trades, some overseas.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Case Study Reporters
May 21, 2024
3:36 pm
At subscriber request, we refreshed our 2022 cheat sheet on reporters who cover case studies. We dug deeply and uncovered 12, just one fewer than last time.
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The Media Business Underperforms Other Industries, Badly
February 6, 2025
This is majorly tl;dr, but recent research from FT Strategies and Reuters empirically uncovers every trend there is, when it comes to the health of the media business. In short, “the media” is barely breakeven, here and around the world. AI search may prove devastating.
WSJ Launches CEO Brief Newsletter
February 6, 2025
The WSJ this week launched CEO Brief, a newsletter designed to inform readers, and to attract new members to the WSJ Leadership Institute. This organization is already a Dow Jones profit center, and a great example of how Tier 1 can lessen dependence on advertising. Former Fortune CEO Alan Murray runs the institute and is the nominal editor of CEO Brief — and promises to read every bit of reader mail — though he has delegated the writing of the newsletter to subordinates in the early going.
Lydia Dishman Joins Method Communications
February 6, 2025
Fast Company’s Lydia Dishman has joined (SWMS subscriber) Method Communications as VP of content strategy. Lydia joins an already strong content team, which includes former NY Times reporter Tim Race and B2B tech edit vet John Foley.
Next Out the Door: Forbes’s Alex Konrad
January 31, 2025
“I’m leaving to build something new,” Alex posted on X today. He spent 12 years at Forbes as a reporter and a builder of databases and lists. It’s time he gets to keep the money.
IDG/Foundry: From One Private Equity Owner to Another
January 31, 2025
Axios reported on Jan. 24 that private equity firm Blackstone will sell IDG/Foundry, publishers of InfoWorld, Computerworld and Network World (and owners of IDC) to another private equity firm called Regent, which bought streaming video channel Cheddar in 2023. Remains to be seen how the ownership change will affect IDG’s venerable IT titles, but it’s unlikely their budgets will go up.
Key Editorial Union Stands Up To AI
January 31, 2025
Unionized writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative AI in member newsrooms, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The union — Writers Guild of America, East — represents Fast Company, Wired and many other prominent titles. The union won agreement that publications “will not lay off current staff employees due to the use of generative AI,” and also that “advance notice [must be given] if the company plans to make the use of generative AI systems a requirement of [editors’] jobs.”