Media Appearances

I joined Highwire PR principal Kathleen Gratehouse for a conversation with Aarti Shah about different ways the PR industry has evolved and how it is increasingly bringing journalists into the business. Podcast: What Happens When Journalists Become PR Professionals?

CNBC’s Andrea Day interviewed me on the topic of email spoofing, and I demonstrated to her how easy it was to impersonate an email message from a domain that wasn’t protected with the authentication technology DMARC. Who really sent that email? Major organizations may be vulnerable to email spoofing

Joss Fong and Cleo Abram of Recode/Vox Media did a great piece on how easy it is to send fake emails from domains that aren’t protected with authentication through DMARC. Their report includes an interview with me, and goes in-depth into how the technology works. The video got over 650k views on You

Twitter Moments is a latecomer to the social news curation game. Lots of people have attempted to extract useful signals about the news from the huge mess of social data, with varying results.

The lovely folks at NBC Bay Area invited me back to Press:Here, Silicon Valley’s answer to “Meet the Press.” I was on the show on Sunday with Laura Mandaro and host Scott McGrew. We talked for about 8 minutes apiece with the founders of Munchery, Tripping.com, and HackerOne. Here are the three video

CCTV reporter Mark Niu interviewed me and included my somewhat skeptical take on Google’s new corporate structure — Alphabet Inc. — in his report this week. My hair is doing some weird thing but I think other than that I make some kind of sense. My take, in a nutshell: The new structure, so far, […]

I was on This Week in Tech — also known as TWiT — this past weekend, along with Harry McCracken, Patrick Norton, and Merlin Mann, plus host Leo LaPorte. It’s a two-hour live show, but the time went by fast: Leo keeps things moving along and everybody had something interesting to say about the week’s

I spoke with Josh Macht (Group Publisher, Harvard Business Review) on an episode of Hubspot’s podcast The Growth Show to talk about how our publications have been able to survive — and thrive — in the digital age. It’s an interesting 30-minute conversation about how digital publications can grow, at

Last summer, Ben Kaplan posted an interview with me about how PR folks can get my attention. I’ve been pointing people to this interview time and again, because it is a helpful summary of how my day really works. Here’s the start of the transcript. Read the whole thing, or give it a listen, on PRHac

I was on NBC Bay Area’s Sunday show “Press Here” a few weeks ago. This is a really fun show to do: It’s like a local version of “Meet the Press,” hosted by Scott McGrew. They bring in a couple local journalists and do a few short segments where we interview entrepreneurs about what they’re […]