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Beware the Phony Tech News Sites

August 11, 2023 3:03 pm

SWMS agency subscribers increasingly ask us about tech news sites that look legit at a glance, yet there’s something fishy about them.

Cheat Sheet: Robotics Reporters

August 9, 2023 10:17 am

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.

Paid Content Rates: The New Stack

July 18, 2023 6:24 am

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.

Cheat Sheet: CTO Podcasts

July 5, 2023 4:53 am

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SWMS Dossier: Natasha Mascarenhas, The Information

June 22, 2023 5:56 am

Venture capital reporter Natasha Mascarenhas loves to share, and people care. Perhaps you are among her 46,000 followers on Twitter. Few can post a Tweet like this and get 37 likes and almost 9,500 views.

Fortune Spikes, Bloomberg Swoons

June 20, 2023 6:17 am

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Cheat Sheet: Cybersecurity Targets on Federal Govt. Beat

June 15, 2023 4:41 am

By subscriber request, here’s a list of 16 reporters who cover cybersecurity “Inside the Beltway” in the Washington, D.C. area. In our sidebar, GPT-4 addresses the unique challenges (and opportunities) faced by CISOs serving the Federal government.

SWMS Q&A: Victor Dey, Tech Editor, VentureBeat

June 12, 2023 11:11 am

Victor Dey is a data scientist who discovered tech journalism. Often it’s the other way around. In any case, VentureBeat gets the win: Victor writes between 20 and 30 stories a month about AI, data science and cybersecurity — three of the most important beats in B2B — and he does it with authority.

GPT-4’s Search of The Live Web — Useless

June 4, 2023 1:04 pm

The biggest knock on ChatGPT is that it knows nothing after September 2021. That is no longer true, thanks to an add-on released by OpenAI last month.

The SWMS-Semrush Top 15 Index: Surprises Galore

June 1, 2023 5:50 am

Publications do have positions in the marketplace, but they often stray from them, pleasing readers in the process.

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FT Opens Up Its Content to OpenAI

April 30, 2024

While the NYT pursues its suit against OpenAI, the Financial Times has chosen to license its content to help OpenAI train current and future LLMs. The NYT seems to be on the wrong side of this issue, with the Associated Press and Axel Springer also choosing to see OpenAI as a source of income, rather than an enemy.

Here’s the opposing view, from Press Gazette’s Dominic Young, who advises publishers to play a game of chicken with OpenAI and its LLM competitors.

Newsweek Uses AI…

April 18, 2024

… and it has no problem disclosing how. Reporters still run the joint, but they are getting AI assistance.

The Atlantic’s Karen Hao Has A Big Idea

April 16, 2024

The Atlantic’s Karen Hao, in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center, is designing a course in AI for journalists. Classes begin next month. Details here. Might be something to alert your friendlies about. Karen hopes to help train 1,000 journalists in AI over the next two years.