Cheat Sheet: Targets Who Cover Investments in Gaming
May 22, 2023
7:54 am
Truly a short list.
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Cheat Sheet: Private Equity Reporters
April 6, 2023
4:12 am
Here are 20 reporters who cover private equity as an industry or as part of their core beat. We omitted targets in which PE was a passing mention or incidental detail.
SWMS Q&A: Alex Wilhelm, EIC, TechCrunch+
March 22, 2023
9:23 am
Can the Silicon Valley Bank meltdown now seem so long ago? Yet the true fallout has not yet begun. In our Mar. 21 SWMS Q&A, edited for length and clarity — TechCrunch+ EIC Alex Wilhelm gives us a generous glimpse of what it was like to work at TechCrunch that day.
That Was Close. Now What?
March 13, 2023
4:50 am
Here’s a toolkit designed to help SWMS readers monitor the unfolding Silicon Valley Bank situation from a tech media point of view.
Cheat Sheet: VC Events, SMB Events
November 15, 2022
6:02 am
This is better put as a list of events for entrepreneurs, some of whom want venture capital while others prefer to bootstrap.
Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Funding Rounds
September 19, 2022
12:02 pm
This freshly updated cheat sheet is a bit different than most because multiple reporters within a given publication can and do cover funding rounds. Here’s ten of the “usual suspects” and another ten you might not have considered.
Cheat Sheet: Boston-based VC Reporters
August 23, 2022
2:52 pm
Here’s a list of 15 targets well-suited for VC-based news with a Boston-based news hook. Most targets follow VC and startups as a beat. In other cases, the target’s interest will depend on the company and technology.
How Bad Are Things Really?
July 13, 2022
10:05 am
We’ve all read about the layoffs, hiring freezes and down rounds. Calendar-year budgeting for 2023 starts soon. Is the tech business in trouble? What can we expect for tech coverage in the weeks and months ahead?
TC’s ‘Equity’ Podcast Turns Five
March 11, 2022
3:55 pm
TechCrunch’s Equity podcast turns five years old this week. If you haven’t listened lately, consider it. It’s “a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.”
Profile: Kenrick Cai, Forbes
January 13, 2022
3:58 am
Forbes senior reporter Kenrick Cai chases Series A funding and spotlights fast-rising startups. Upon graduation from Duke University in June 2019, Kenrick joined Forbes as an intern and worked his way up.
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We Are Devo
September 27, 2023
Somewhere along the line, Cambridge, Mass.-based Devo Technology rebranded as Devo. Warner Music Group apparently has no objection.
NYT Rolls Out ‘Enhanced’ Bio Pages for Its Reporters
September 22, 2023
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.
Louise Story On How Smart Journalists Are Using AI
September 22, 2023
Legendary journalist Louise Story reveals how the smartest edit shops are using AI. Here come the flexicles.
‘Time’ Doubles Its POV Content
September 18, 2023
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.
Latest Semrush Research: Mental Health A Top Concern Worldwide
September 18, 2023
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.
Marshall Kirkpatrick Renamed His AI Newsletter
September 15, 2023
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.