Earned Media Podcast Archive

How do you create content that your prspective buyers and Google will find useful and rank accordingly in SERPs? As the expert in your field, one way is to draft creative content marketing that entertains, engages and educates your readers. But what if you’re too busy building your company, and you don;t have the budget…

If you’re in the content marketing agency business and you’ve never heard of the Writer Access content marketing marketplace, this episode will help you generate more revenue for yourself and your clients. This is an exclusive interview with Writer Access CEO Byron White, who built an online marketplace that connects content marketers with freelance writers.…

This a briefing for PR agencies looking to score coverage in Business Insider with Deputy Editor Jake Swearingen, who has also written for Consumer Reports, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Slate and LA Weekly.  In this exclusive interview we talk about Business Insider’s meteoric rise to name brand status, public relations opportunities for media…

New York Times technology correspondent Cade Metz talks about his new book Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, a nonfiction narrative about the tiny clan of artificial intelligence (AI) visionaries rapidly changing our world. Cade is a technology correspondent covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and…

Crunchbase is a database with curated business information about private and public companies. Their service tracks investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers, and acquisitions. Crunchbase News publishes financial news stories about startups and companies in the private sector, particularly concerning fund raising and initial public offerings. Their news coverage…

Dean Takahashi, lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat, covers games, hardware, R&D, and other tech. I’ve known him for over a decade, have represented PR clients that he’s written about, and have contributed guest posts under my byline over the years, although that had nothing to do with him.  Dean came to Silicon Valley in…

Social Networks rose to dominance on the promise of dethroning the mainstream media. No longer would broadcasters and print publishers have a chokehold on what stories got told. Who needs journalism or public relations to protect your reputation if you can bypass the gatekeepers and tell your story yourself? Direct-to-audience storytelling and personal branding were…

In this episode, Peter Kafka senior correspondent at Recode – the business and technology network from Vox Media – talks about his career as a journalist, what stories he likes to cover, podcasting, the dangers of just following trending news stories in this exclusive interview about reporting beyond the bubble filter. Peter Kafka is also…

Rory Cellan-Jones is a technology correspondent for the BBC. He has covered numerous groundbreaking tech and business stories across the decades, from the late ‘90s dotcom bubble all the way to the rise of Google, Facebook, and the iPad. Rory Cellan-Jones is a prominent British journalist. In this summary of an exclusive podcast interview him…