
SWMS Dossier: James Rundle, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Vertical
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.
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.
It’s perhaps a bit surprising that our 13 “AI in healthcare” targets are more or less the usual suspects in healthcare edit. Most trades can’t afford to hire additional reporters just to cover the AI aspects of the healthcare beat.
Here’s a dozen New York-based targets covering banking or fintech. They’re the reporters you might want to wrangle when a client is “in town” and wants to get together with a reporter for a trend-spotting session.
Here’s a list of 13 targets focused on personal finance. Remember that Insider has an entire section dedicated to the topic. We present the go-to’s in the field. Please tell us whom we missed and we will add.
Observability is hotter than the APM market ever was — AI had that effect on it. It was a no surprise to find 16 targets who follow the space closely.
We’re proud to introduce the SWMS Paid Content Directory 2023. Modeled after our contributed content gatekeepers directory, the resource is designed to help point our subscribers in the right direction when they have budget to spend on “saying it the way you want to.”
SWMS agency subscribers increasingly ask us about tech news sites that look legit at a glance, yet there’s something fishy about them.
Here’s the rundown on 21 reporters who cover the fast-growing world of robotics. AI and machine learning are only part of the picture. We chose targets deeply immersed in the technology; as always we lead with the high-readership Tier 1s.
Here are the latest paid content rates from Fast Company. The submission below is provided by FC account director Justine DeGaetano. Fast Company will write the post for you, at a premium.
Here are the latest paid content rates from The New Stack. The submission below is provided by Benjamin Ball, the publication’s director of sales and account management.
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Here’s how Mike Isaac presents himself. A single perfunctory paragraph doesn’t cut it anymore in a world of disinformation and synthetic, AI-generated content where no one really knows the agenda. The NYT wants to get out in front of that, especially before the 2024 elections heat up. Read the background behind this in Vanity Fair.
Legendary journalist Louise Story reveals how the smartest edit shops are using AI. Here come the flexicles.
Sara Fischer of Axios nails another scoop: Time is merging its Time Ideas section into a new one, called Time100 Voices. It doesn’t promise big opportunity for tech PR — it aims so high that only the Benioffs and Nadellas stand a chance.
Recent research from Semrush, a data partner of ours, reveals the most searched societal issues based on average monthly Google searches between January 2019 and June 2023, and how they rank across 35 countries. Searches related to mental health are skyrocketing.
It is now called AI Time To Impact, and if you care about what’s real in AI and when we need to care about it, AI Time To impact is a must-read.
Says Digiday today: 40 percent of Gen Z uses TikTok or Instagram when searching for lunch recommendations. The younger you go, the tighter the grip held by platforms. Musk’s calculation that few will ever leave X might not be too far off in the long run.