How to contact Techmeme about news
Since our touchpoints have evolved over the years, I’ll provide you with a general update on the best way to tip, advise, or complain about current events. This article is organized around several scenarios, which I will list in bold.
You would like to send an announcement for information purposes to Techmeme: In the typical scenario, in which you think Techmeme is unlikely to feature the news, or you are unfamiliar with our publishing criteria, it is best to do nothing. Techmeme only posts about 50 titles per day and it is very unlikely that any given listing will be featured. So save us some time and focus on more successful channels than Techmeme.
Want to send Techmeme some news that you think there’s a good chance we’ll want to publish: If you’re familiar with Techmeme and anticipate the story will be of interest to us, you can provide the link using this online form. This form integrates into the editors’ workflow so human editors see the link in real time. As a bonus, the form asks for an email address, allowing us to notify you if we publish the link. For the (hopefully rare) bad actors out there, I should point out that all submissions are fully verified by human editors, so any spam attempts will silently fail.
You want to add a social link under the news already presented on Techmeme: We often feature related blog posts and social posts from LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon under our titles, and you are encouraged to contribute these links. Simply hover over our desktop page title and click the “Add link here” button that appears. (For an example, see the image below.) As long as the link you submit adds value in some way, we’ll add it and you’ll receive an email confirming it once we do. Feel free to suggest your own links or those of your company, clients or friends. As long as the link improves Techmeme, it’s a win/win for you and us. (Again, I must emphasize for the rare bad actors, all submissions are fully verified and spammy links will not reach Techmeme.)
You inform publications about news under embargo and wish to inform Techmeme: Large companies often notify us of major announcements because it helps us publish as soon as possible after the embargo and organize more comprehensive coverage. Since the embargoed information is not yet public, there is no link to it, so you cannot submit it through our online form. So, you can submit details via this special email address. To make the process easier for businesses and Techmeme, our policy is that we automatically accept embargoed information sent to this email address, meaning we will not publish any information sent to us until it is public. So please don’t start by asking if we accept. Yes, we accept, and we’ve been managing embargoes from top tech companies for over a decade without incident. When emailing, please include as much detail as possible, including embargo length, blog posts or press releases, and details of publications you have notified about. Note that this email address will reach an individual who will then route the news to a limited set of publishers. (It is not an alias that simply forwards to all publishers.) For this reason, we ask that you email us 12 hours or more before the embargo time, if possible.
Techmeme posted something wrong or misleading and you want to let them know: Sometimes we misstate a headline or mention a detail in a story that was later corrected without our knowledge. In scenarios like this, we definitely want to know so we can fix our title or, more rarely, remove or replace our title. Please use this email address to contact us. Note that you can also use this email address to send other information or even news tips that cannot be easily conveyed through a single URL (making it difficult to use this form.) Please note that although we always read these emails, in many cases we do not have time to respond.
As a bonus, here are some non-editorial scenarios for contacting us: to place ads on Techmeme, to inquire about our media monitoring and summarization services, email us here, and for questions unrelated to any of the above, use this email address.