Perhaps you saw Joanna Glasner’s July 16th CrunchBase News story about the spike in cybersecurity funding.
Cybersecurity was a hot area for venture investment in the first half of 2025, with total funding to the space hitting its highest level in three years… overall, we counted at least 11 rounds of $100 million or more for security- and privacy-focused startups in Q2.
Think about when clients first started asking you about podcasts. Five years ago? 10? Podcasts were invented more than 20 years ago.
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So you want your CEO profiled in Tier 1? Fortune this month served up a good reminder that the big publications have channels, and a “profile” may come across differently in each, with different PR outcomes.
Pitching The Atlantic has never been easy. PR pros always know what trade editors care about. Not so with a highly curated publication such as The Atlantic, still driven by the boundary-free judgment of human storytellers.
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You may know John Kell as the author of Fortune’s weekly newsletter, CIO Intelligence. You’d be right, but John’s work also shows up in Fast Company and Business Insider. Few other freelancers have such impact.
SDxCentral is doing something brave: it’s overtly using AI to generate copy and dollars, and in a real sense is gambling its future. The 12-year-old B2B edit brand is past the experimenting-with-AI stage — it’s already in the refinement stage.
Semafor turned two this month. Do you care? Probably not. With the exception of OpenAI and other giants, Semafor doesn’t cover tech vendors or their products.
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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Veteran tech journalist David Strom is working with a couple of AI developers to understand exactly the nature of his writing as it has unfolded over the years. In this edition of Sound Thinking, David shares his learnings and where everything might go.
It’s been tough to keep track of SDxCentral this year, with the sale… management moves… Here’s a podcast and an article that will help you catch up.. thank you, Ben, for the assistance.
Newly merged TechTarget and Informa this month laid off 10 percent of their employees. Check out the euphemism in the 8-K: “[the] net reduction [will be] up to approximately 10% of the Company’s current global colleague base.” That just beats all, doesn’t it?
Using NLP software, Business Insider assesses how readers will react to its content emotionally, and then sells advertising based on that info. For example, an advertiser can choose to advertise against a story (or video) that makes you feel good or optimistic or pessimistic. This is where content is headed; and this trend may someday affect the way that you pitch.
An avalanche of fake news sites threatens the viability of the web itself. You may need a subscription to read this article, but this publication is definitely worth the money for a subscription.
