
Deep Dive: Tier 1 AI Targets and Trends, Nov. 2023-Feb. 2024
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.

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.

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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.

We’re talking the ones you might have to subsidize — with airfare, hotels… otherwise they don’t come. All seven of our targets patrol the B2B landscape and have the experience to size up the vendor’s place in the world.

Here are 19 targets who cover CMOs. Bloomberg and CNBC not on it. Tier 1 tends not to see CMOs as newsmakers. WSJ CMO Today and Forbes are the exceptions. This is updated from our May 2022 list.

Here’s a short list (literally) of four producers associated with Yahoo Finance video programming. We included the shows the targets are involved with, when possible.

Here’s a look at who’s who at The Information, the publication many like to read and few want to pitch. The Information is now insist 11th year, a clear success in an industry that hasn’t seen much of it lately.

The prospects for placing CEO profiles are promising these days. The following is an update to our Sept. 2022 cheat sheet on who’s delivering CEO profiles and the best strategies for obtaining them.

Nothing is more frustrating than landing coverage for a new app — or worse, the new version of an old app. Apps themselves are old technology — Apple introduced the iPhone almost 17 years ago.

Maybe it’s that Bitcoin made it past the $40K threshold, but for whatever reason, the suite of technologies collectively known as Web3 is making a comeback.
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… 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.”
From WebPro News: Romanian software marketplace Tekpon acquired The Next Web (TNW) from the Financial Times, rescuing the tech media brand from closure.
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.
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.
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.
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.