Paid articles promoting stock published on Yahoo Finance, Insider
Yahoo Finance, Yahoo and Insider published articles from Benzinga that had been paid for by companies to promote their stocks, reports Caleb Pershan of Columbia Journalism Review. Pershan writes, “This Alfi story was one of more than a hundred paid promotional articles originally published by Benzinga, then syndicated to better-known financial news websites like Yahoo!, Yahoo! […]
CNET seeks a senior writer to cover Google
CNET is looking for an enthusiastic and aggressive reporter to cover the intersection of technology and internet culture using Google — and its many ventures — as an anchor. We’re looking for a reporter who can use Google as a springboard to generate story ideas tackling everything from regulation to diversity and climate change. The […]
How the Facebook whistleblower vetted a WSJ reporter
Ben Smith of the New York Times writes about how the Facebook whistleblower “auditioned” Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. Smith writes, “Frances Haugen first met Jeff Horwitz, a tech-industry reporter for The Wall Street Journal, early last December on a hiking trail near the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, Calif. “She liked that he seemed […]
WSJ’s Mattioli wins WERT Prize for Amazon story
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced today that Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli won the WERT Prize for Outstanding Global Business Reporting by a female journalist. Mattioli won the 2021 WERT Prize for her story, “How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners,” which chronicles how the […]
Reuters seeks a France company news editor
Reuters is looking for an exceptional journalist and leader who can help shape the France companies news file. France is home to companies such as LVMH, Airbus, TotalEnergies and Renault that are of global significance but also do business in a distinctively French way. They regularly serve up dramatic M&A moves, world-class innovation, charismatic company […]
FT hires White from Reuters for Paris bureau
Sarah White, the chief companies correspondent for Reuters in Paris, has been hired by The Financial Times to cover energy, cars, finance and other French stories. She started on Monday and is based in Paris. White has been with Reuters since August 2020, originally covering investment banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She […]
Netflix fires worker who leaked financial info to Bloomberg
Netflix Inc. said Friday that it fired an employee who leaked financial information about its Dave Chapelle special to Bloomberg News, reports Joe Flint and Jennifer Calfas of The Wall Street Journal. Flint and Calfas report, “‘We understand the employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is […]
Reporter Carreyrou allowed to attend Elizabeth Holmes trial
Former Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou is now allowed to sit in on the trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose defense team had put him down as a potential witness, reports Adam Lashinsky of Business Insider. Lashinsky reports, ” In his podcast, ‘Bad Blood: The Final Chapter,’ he is an unapologetic antagonist of Holmes, focusing on […]
Study: Newspaper closings leads to more corporate misdoings
The closing of local newspapers results in more corporate misdeeds, according to research by Harvard Business School professor Jonas Heese. Avery Forman of Harvard Business School writes, “In a study of thousands of facilities of publicly listed firms, Heese identified the towns where the local newspaper presses permanently came to a halt. Heese found that […]
How a WSJ reporter used LinkedIn to connect with the Facebook whistleblower
Brian Stelter of CNN Business writes about how Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz used LinkedIn to earn the trust of a Facebook whistleblower. Stelter writes, “Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz first connected with Frances Haugen, now known as the Facebook whistleblower, late last year. He was trying to meet more sources at Facebook to learn about how […]
