This revision of a June 2023 cheat sheet doubles the number of cybersecurity targets based in the Washington, DC area — from 13 to 26. You’ll find multiple reporters from a single publication only if they write frequently.
Our previous IAM cheat sheet was less than a year old but needed a good scrub. Fewer reporters cover IAM these days. We did find 11, whose names are below. Few were on the last one.
Here’s a cheat sheet comprising 11 reporters who recently covered a cybersecurity survey as news. We carried over three targets from our Sept. 2022 cheat sheet; all other names are new.
We offer 19 cybersecurity podcasts, the vast majority being from independent experts. We omitted podcasts produced by vendors (or tried to), and those that were obviously pay-to-play. You’ll find lots of podcasts addressing how to land a job in cybersecurity.
Here’s a cheat sheet on the top 17 most prolific cybersecurity reporters as of April 2024. They are the ones who write more frequently about cybersecurity topics than other beat reporters.
Here are 11 reporters who cover quantum technology as applied to cybersecurity. The vast majority are beat reporters. PR pros will note that quantum continues to fascinate trend and big-picture journalists.
Here’s a short list of cybersecurity awards, mostly US-based but we included a couple over in the UK. This is a cheat sheet “lite” because it lacks contact info. Still, the info provided will get you started.
In this short and sweet cheat sheet, we’ve got eight targets focused at least in part on quantum security. This is still a nascent field, though the “quantum” term has been bandied about for a decade or two.
You may know James Rundle as the bass player in the NY-based punk rock band called Something Bitter. James is best known as a reporter for the WSJ Pro cybersecurity vertical.
Eric Geller just Tweeted that he has joined The Messenger as a cybersecurity reporter. He includes his contact info, and concludes with something that you
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Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
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
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.
