OPEC cancels accreditation for Bloomberg, Reuters and WSJ

Source: Workers.org

OPEC has canceled accreditation for reporters from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Bloomberg News to cover a conference in Vienna, reports Emma Ross-Thomas of Bloomberg News.

Ross-Thomas reports that the conference “will feature the head of BP Plc and the European Union’s top energy official.”

“‘We are very concerned by the prospect of OPEC excluding certain journalists, including from Bloomberg, from next week’s seminar,’ Bloomberg News said in a statement. ‘For the sake of market transparency, we strongly advocate for OPEC to allow journalists from relevant global news outlets to attend.'”

Read more here. Earlier this month, OPEC banned Reuters, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal from its production meeting in Vienna.

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.