Launched in May 2022, IT Brew is learning what it is. In the early going it is very much a twice-weekly cybersecurity newsletter. Last month, 14 of 17 articles focused on the topic. Each of the 14 was deeply reported, with lots of quotes and links.
There’s no one like Maria Korolov. Born in Russia and now living in western Massachusetts, freelancer Maria covers cybersecurity, AI and virtual technologies for five IT media titles.
We went deep this week on CIO Journal, the WSJ vertical that turned ten years old last month. Our subscribers regularly ask how to break through. We hope our data and analysis can help.
Stephanie Neil. Two hats. One job. You may know Stephanie as a senior editor at Automation World, serving since 2015. Since 2018 she has served as EIC of OEM Magazine, which explores…
Change is coming to 31-year-old ZDNet. According to EIC Jason Hiner, ZDNet is honing its focus on professionals of all sorts — not just IT pros. Its historic emphasis on B2B and IT will soon be over.
PR pros often wonder how to measure the influence of a particular publication. Similarweb measures audience size and that’s great. How do you measure a publication’s relationship with its readers?
A subscriber requested we hunt for columns and other standing elements where one could pitch a CIO or CFO. We found several potential opportunities. The vehicles were one-off or occasional, not recurring, so this isn’t a typical “cheat sheet.” Still, this short list is worth a look.
Here’s a list of 14 reporters who write frequently about edge. The biggest audience in play here is VentureBeat’s. Sorry to disappoint but we found no business reporters who cover edge computing. let us know if you have!
Not every article has to be freshly written and unique. B2B publishers often establish — and regularly refresh — “what is” articles designed to answer basic questions about a technology.
DigitalCxO is the latest site from Techstrong Group, publishers of Devops.com, Security Boulevard, Container Journal and other deep B2B titles. Launched this week, Digital CxO is overseen by Techstrong CEO Alan Shimel and directed day to day by chief content officer Mike Vizard, longtime B2B freelancer and former top editor at InfoWorld, PC Week and CRN.
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Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.
The UK-based newsletter company called Trending Now uses AI to scrape what’s trending across 27 areas of B2B. Press Gazette has additional detail. The company employs ten, none of whom are journalists (by traditional definition).
The full union membership needs to ratify it on July 24, but it looks like no editors can be laid off or suffer a salary cut if the publication goes big in its use of generative AI. More detail here from Neiman.
Goldman Sachs took 32 pages to say pretty much that. The media business may turn out to be an outlier, an industry perfectly suited to synthetic, multilingual words, sounds and images at scale. As for everyone else, well, the global consultancies will learn the truth first because they have rushed to monetize Gen AI — they aren’t yet succeeding.
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