cheat sheet

You're going to love this cheat sheet, overseen by SWMS contributor Rhiannon Pacheco. It contains lists of 58 payments reporters, 18 banking reporters, 17 fintech newsletters mostly from Substack, 48 fintech-friendly podcasts, and links to 45 verticals across payments, banking and crypto. 

Updated Nov. 24, here's an updated cheat sheet on business TV bookers, producers and talent. The focus is on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg and Cheddar.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) ranks among the newer acronyms in IT. Analysts and reporters alike specialize in it. Here's a list of 17 reporters who grasp the topic and write about it regularly.

Open source journalists abound but only a subset focus on containers and security. Here's 15 of them for you, with contact info as best we can manage.

We should do more cheat sheets on industry analysts. Yes? Here's a short list of analysts who study the payments space, bordering of course on ecommerce.

By subscriber request, we've been looking at which publications will run "Predictions 2021" content and who will do the writing. Here's the latest, compiled by contributing editor Rhiannon Pacheco. We'll be updating this GDoc in weeks ahead. 

Privacy reporters will have their moment in the 2020s. Traditionally, the privacy beat tends to be folded into cybersecurity. As social media becomes increasingly regulated, the privacy story will be told by privacy reporters. Here are 17 of the leading journalists in the space. 

The "culture" beat started out as "how tech impacts culture" but with the quadrafecta of Covid-19, recession, BLM and now the election, culture has come to mean pretty much "life in general." Here's a short list of a dozen culture reporters mostly from Tier 1, with links and contact info.

Climate change and environment have entire publications dedicated to them -- Bloomberg Green, CleanTechnica, others -- but nearly all of Tier 1 has at least one beat reporter dedicated to one or both. Here's a list of 18 of them.

Would we do a DEI deep-dive without a Google Doc? Contained in this one is a list of 31 (and counting) reporters focused on DEI. Also included are tabs on DEI nonprofit organizations likely to be quoted by journalists, along with DEI survey and research tools and DEI awards.