Most earned media in fintech security revolves around threats, with obvious good reason. When you log onto your online banking, you don’t want to see everything zeroed out. But PR pathways do exist. The most positive editorial in the segment reflects the work and thinking of industry associations.

In January a subscriber assembling a new-business pitch asked us to shed light on the B2B tech edit scene: what should the prospect do? We're not sure how much light we shed, but here are the questions we were asked to answer, and how we answered them. We omitted the name of the enterprise vendor in question.

This week we take a fresh look at Wall Street Journal tech edit (at a subscriber's request). You’ll enjoy our latest Google Doc, containing vital data on 45 WSJ reporters, editorials and columnists you’re likely to pitch. More to come soon. 

Sometimes a client has a big idea and wants to get it discussed at a newspaper's highest level. That's when you want to approach the editorial board. Here's a quick and dirty list of who's who on eight of America's largest and most influential newspapers.

Podcasts continue to matter. Despite podcasts being hard to measure, the rise of smartphones has brought podcast ubiquity with it. Wearables will keep them even closer. So here's our all-new SWMS podcast list for 2019. There's 165 in the updated list. We deleted the defunct ones. Info fresh as of Jan. 24.