Gen AI Sizes Up Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle
November 12, 2024
9:14 am
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SWMS Analysis: John Edwards, Informationweek
November 5, 2024
9:39 am
A veteran tech edit freelancer one told SWMS that freelancers are entrepreneurs like any other. Time is money. Profit beats all. Few PR pros pitch with this in mind — but they won’t be able to break through with John Edwards unless they do.
Cheat Sheet: EV Targets
November 4, 2024
10:29 am
Here are 14 targets that follow the world of EVs. Roughly half are based overseas. Could it be that US publications are betting that TVs will flop?
Updated Cheat Sheet: Podcasts That Seek Thoughtful C-Level Execs
November 4, 2024
5:36 am
Here’s a short list of podcasts that might book your techie, “big-picture” CEO who doubles as a philosopher. Naturally, the bar is high.
Cheat Sheet: SF-Based Edit Targets
October 31, 2024
3:00 am
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SWMS Research: Fortune, TC, WSJ Huge Gainers on TikTok
October 22, 2024
11:38 am
Fortune, TechCrunch, WSJ, NYT and CNBC were the big gainers this year in the 2024 SWMS/TikTok Index. The index comprises 14 editorial brands, all worthy of a pitch. The year-over period studied: Oct. 2023 and Oct. 2024.
Cheat Sheet: Food & Beverage Targets
October 9, 2024
8:15 am
Here are 14 F&B targets, almost exclusively in Tier 1 or close to, These reporters follow the food & beverage industry in a B-to-B way; they are not focused on consumers and consumption.
SiliconANGLE Media Launches 27 Awards
October 7, 2024
11:35 am
SiliconANGLE Media has launched the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards, comprising 27 awards focused on companies, people and products.
SWMS Deep-Dive: Innovation Edit
September 23, 2024
5:06 pm
This SWMS deep-dive on innovation edit started out as a cheat sheet — but sadly, there just aren’t that many targets. There are some. Innovation seems to be too abstract a concept for most publications to cover as a beat.
SWMS Q&A: Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company
September 19, 2024
1:23 pm
Fast Company EIC Brendan Vaughan had a busy week this week, chairing the publication’s tenth annual Innovation Festival. On Sept. 11 Brendan made time for the following SWMS Q&A, in which he discussed the role of AI in innovation…
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Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1’s Thought Leadership…
January 3, 2026
… 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.”
Tekpon Buys The Next Web from The FT
January 3, 2026
From WebPro News: Romanian software marketplace Tekpon acquired The Next Web (TNW) from the Financial Times, rescuing the tech media brand from closure.
Right-Wing Podcasts: Dare You Pitch Them?
November 24, 2025
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.
GEO and AEO: Be Careful of What You Promise the Clients
November 19, 2025
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.
AI-Driven Security Threats: A Threat to Edit ‘Shelf Space’ Too?
November 18, 2025
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.
Nieman Labs 2026 Predictions for B2B Media
November 11, 2025
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.