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Business Insider CEO note to staff on Oxman stories

Barbara Peng

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

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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