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Inside the Media Mind of Kevin Townsend, SecurityWeek

On this episode of Inside the Media Minds, our hosts Christine Blake and Madison Farabaugh discuss the upcoming 2025 cybersecurity prediction season and the evolving world of cybersecurity with Kevin Townsend, Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek.  Kevin’s role at SecurityWeek is at the intersection of his two passions, writing and learning. He notes, “You cannot say […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Alex Konrad, Forbes

In this episode of Inside the Media Minds, our hosts Christine Blake and Madison Farabaugh chat with Alex Konrad about the various hats he wears as Senior Editor at Forbes.  “It is a lot of air traffic control,” states Alex, on the routing and evaluating of stories for Forbes and balancing this responsibility with what […]

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Inside the Media Minds: Election Security Special

In this special election security-focused episode of Inside the Media Minds, our hosts Madison Farabaugh, Luca Pagni and Christine Blake sat down with John Sakellariadis of POLITICO, Joao-Pierre S. Ruth of InformationWeek and Derek Johnson of CyberScoop to hear their key focus areas surrounding the 2024 Presidential election cycle. From the potential legal battles, deep […]

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Black Hat Special: Inside the Media Mind The Register’s Brandon Vigliarolo

In this special Black Hat episode of Inside the Media Minds, we welcome The Register’s government and enterprise IT reporter, Brandon Vigliarolo. Brandon shares his experience as a first-time attendee of the conference, his perspective on the most talked about themes, and the inside scoops that fascinated him the most. Brandon’s Black Hat planning started […]

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Inside the Media Mind of CIO’s Grant Gross

We previously welcomed Grant Gross to Inside the Media Minds in 2018 when he was working as a freelance journalist covering the progression of election security, artificial intelligence (AI) and technology-influenced trends. With those topics increasing in relevance today, and Grant’s new role, we figured it was a great time to catch up! Today, as […]

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Inside the Media Mind of DefenseScoop’s Mikayla Easley

As a reporter for DefenseScoop, Mikayla Easley is at the forefront of the latest emerging tech and Department of Defense (DOD) policies impacting air and space warfare. She is dedicated to providing her readers with the latest updates on how the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy are leveraging space […]

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Inside the PR Minds – An RSAC Reflection

In the first episode of our 2024 RSA Conference series, we sat down with Sam Sabin, cybersecurity reporter at Axios, to discuss her approach to scheduling, pitching and topics of interest while in San Francisco. In part two of this series, my colleague Steve Bosk returns to discuss our post-conference reflections.  This was my first […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Axios’ Sam Sabin: The RSAC Episode

As cybersecurity reporter at Axios, Sam Sabin uses her years of experience to tackle complex cybersecurity topics and distill them into meaningful, understandable stories for audiences ranging from industry veterans, government officials, venture capitalists and even newbies to the cybersecurity landscape. During the first episode in our two-part RSA Conference series, Sam tells our co-hosts […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Healthcare IT Today’s John Lynn

As the Founder of Healthcare IT Today and Swaay.Health, John Lynn has one goal in mind: using technology to improve healthcare and help others do the same. John has led his team to provide healthcare professionals with up-to-date news on trends and topics shaping healthcare for the past 18 years. More than 17,000 articles (and […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Matt Bracken, Managing Editor of FedScoop and CyberScoop

As the Managing Editor, Matt Bracken oversees the coverage of federal government technology policy and cybersecurity at FedScoop and CyberScoop. Matt and his team are dedicated to covering topics ranging from the AI Executive Order, federal modernization efforts, China’s emergence over Russia as the top cyber threat, and more.  Matt notes that cyber is touching […]