Business Insider CEO note to staff on Oxman stories

Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Sunday to the staff:

We are a journalism organization with high standards and a commitment to truth and fairness.

Regarding the recent reporting on Neri Oxman, we feel it’s important to share the following:

• • There was no unfair bias or personal, political, and/or religious motivation in the pursuit of the stories.
  • The stories were newsworthy and Neri Oxman, who has a public profile as a prominent intellectual and has been a subject of and participant in media coverage, is a fair subject.
  • The process we went through to report, edit, and review the stories was sound, as was the timing. Through their representative, Oxman and Ackman responded that they had made the decision not to comment.
  • The stories are accurate and the facts well documented.

Business Insider supports and empowers our journalists to share newsworthy, factual stories with our readers, and we do so with editorial independence.

We stand by our newsroom and our reporting, which will continue onward.

Barbara Peng
CEO, Business Insider