Publication Strategy & Citation Chain

3-tier citation chain · 8 press domains · 26 pitch docs · 14,834 lines of strategy

Citation Chain
TIER 3 — Foundation TIER 2 — Named Coverage TIER 1 — Features HN · Reddit · dev.to 2600 Zebras Unite Indie Hackers EFF Deeplinks Tits & Sass Hacking//Hustling SWOP / DSW / FSC BesD / ESWA PCC (Scholz) DEF CON / CCC / BSides XBIZ 404 Media Platformer Fast Company The Markup Rest of World Sifted MIT Tech Review The Intercept Bloomberg / FT Jacobin / Reason Logic / The Baffler Ars Technica TechCrunch The Verge The Guardian ProPublica Wired NEWSLETTERS (inform all tiers) Stratechery Garbage Day Money Stuff PODCASTS (amplification) Darknet Diaries Hard Fork Pivot Decoder Startup Europe Tier 3 Tier 2 Tier 1
Never pitch a higher tier without coverage from the tier below.
XBIZ exception: Pitchable at launch — trade publications evaluate on merit, not citation chain.
European note: Sifted unlocks a parallel European press cascade (Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El País, Tech.eu).
Publication Targets
Tier 1 — Features
Publication Primary Angle Key Journalist Pitch Window Pitch Doc
Wired Founder feature narrative Amit Katwala P16–P17 tech/pitches/wired.md
Ars Technica Adversarial ML in production Benj Edwards P10–P12 tech/pitches/ars-technica.md
TechCrunch Zero-fee cooperative economics Amanda Silberling P13–P15 tech/pitches/techcrunch.md
The Verge Platform economy + creator tools Mia Sato, Nilay Patel P12–P14 tech/pitches/the-verge.md
The Guardian UK filings, Nordic Model Multiple P8–P15 policy/pitches/the-guardian.md
ProPublica Radvinsky financial investigation Investigative desk P10+ policy/pitches/propublica.md
Tier 2 — Named Coverage
Publication Primary Angle Key Journalist Pitch Window Pitch Doc
XBIZ 0% take rate + conference circuit Launch trade/pitches/xbiz.md
404 Media Adversarial ML protection Samantha Cole P3–P4 platform/pitches/404-media.md
Platformer Platform governance Casey Newton P5–P7 platform/pitches/platformer.md
Fast Company Cooperative economics Multiple P6–P8 platform/pitches/fast-company.md
The Markup SSRN extraction data analysis Data journalists P5–P7 tech/pitches/the-markup.md
MIT Tech Review AI for worker protection AI/ML reporters P8–P10 tech/pitches/mit-technology-review.md
Sifted Icelandic cooperative vs. American extraction Freya Pratty, Tom Matsuda P5–P7 european/pitches/sifted.md
Rest of World Iceland jurisdiction, non-US Multiple P6–P9 european/pitches/rest-of-world.md
The Intercept Surveillance, banking, FOSTA Katherine Krueger, Sam Biddle P7–P9 policy/pitches/the-intercept.md
Bloomberg / FT Deal-peg dependent Multiple P6–P8 financial/strategy.md
Tier 3 — Community & Social Foundation
HN · Reddit · dev.to
Developer Seeding
Show HN submissions, technical community posts, dev.to cross-posts
2600
Hacker Culture
2600: The Hacker Quarterly article submission — P4–P6
Zebras Unite
Cooperative Community
Alternative startup community, cooperative economics framing — P3–P5
Indie Hackers
Bootstrapped Founders
Bootstrapped founder community, zero-fee economics narrative — P2–P4
EFF Deeplinks
Privacy / Civil Liberties
EFF blog, privacy-as-product advantage, FOSTA critique — P4–P6
Tits & Sass
Sex Worker Media
Sex worker community validation — essential before Tier 2 pitches
Hacking//Hustling
Research Collective
Academic-adjacent sex worker research org — P1–P3
SWOP / DSW / FSC
US Advocacy
Sex Workers Outreach Project, Decriminalize Sex Work, FSC — P2–P6
BesD / ESWA
European Advocacy
Berufsverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen, ESWA — P3–P8
PCC / Scholz
Academic Cooperativism
Platform Cooperativism Consortium, Trebor Scholz, Nathan Schneider — P3–P8
DEF CON / CCC / BSides
Security Conferences
Talk submissions for adversarial ML, privacy tech — ongoing
SSRN
Academic Paper
Preprint on platform extraction economics, cited by Markup & academic press — P1–P3
Tier Activation Timeline
Tier 3 Tier 2 Tier 1 Foundation Building (P1–P6) Named Coverage (P3–P10) Features (P8–P17) P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 P15 P16 P17
Conference Circuit
XBIZ Miami
May 11–14, 2026
DEF CON 34
Aug 6–9, 2026
XBIZ Amsterdam
Sept 10–13, 2026
eroFame
Oct 2, 2026
Venus Berlin
Oct 22–25, 2026
CCC 40C3
Dec 27–30, 2026
Strategy Docs
Publication Strategy & Citation Chain — Generated 2026-02-26