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Ben Wolfson Shares Tech Journo Insights Heard at PRSA SF
Highwire SAE Ben Wolfson writes: "I recently attended a media panel with three of the top enterprise tech reporters in the Bay Area. Business Insider's Becky Peterson, Bloomberg's Nico Grant and CNBC's Ari Levy shared what moves the needle for them."
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CNBC doesn’t profile many startups using 2,000 words and two team photos. But that’s what it did on Oct. 4 when Kate Rooney, a markets reporter, went deep on a startup called Plaid. It didn’t hurt Plaid’s cause that CNBC named it to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list. Still, it was singled out. Why?
By request, here's a cheat sheet on financial TV bookers, producers and talent. The focus is on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg and Cheddar.
Tech edit industry veteran Matt Rosoff is a builder. He helped IDG build a web channel and event around BYOD. He built Business Insider’s west coast presence as well as its enterprise tech reporting team. Since January, Matt has built out CNBC’s tech reporting team.
No one moves like Christina Farr. In less than five years she has reported for VentureBeat, KQED, Reuters, Fast Company and as of last month, CNBC. Healthcare became her specialty during that time, and her expertise showed this week on The Today Show, on which she appeared to discuss her scoop about Apple.
It's hard to imagine the Wall Street Journal without deputy bureau chief Don Clark -- he worked there 23 years. But as of Dec. 15, Don is out the door, having accepted the buyout offered last month by WSJ parent company News Corp. Always quick to return an email, tech PR pros will miss him. Says Don: "That's what they've been telling me -- and it's gratifying."
Arik Hesseldahl left Recode this month. Recode EIC Dan Frommer tells us there's no replacement lined up yet. Meanwhile, PR pros anxiously watch and wait, for enterprise reporters are scarcer than ever. FierceMarkets laid off several last month. IDG has lost a few through resignations and did not replace them.
Tech PR pros don't need something else to do, but it's probably time to keep an eye on Facebook Live (FBL). Launched last August, FB's live video portal has come of age. Brands, celebrities, tech journalists and mere mortals are broadcasting live every day to large and growing audiences.
With CES a month away, we asked veteran tech journalists, "if you could wave a magic wand and change the experience of covering CES, what exactly would you change?" We got more than our share of throwaway answers. We also got plenty of earnest answers that might help make a PR pro's Vegas experience more successful.
CNBC senior editor Ari Levy is an experienced, well-connected reporter with countless sources of his own. His CNBC office in San Francisco is co-located within Re/code, perhaps the most connected news operation in the business. What can PR bring to a guy like him?
