WSJ’s Tucker had Darcy story “desurfaced”
Lachlan Cartwright and Ravi Somaiya of Breaker report that Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker had its story about media reporter Oliver Darcy “desurfaced.” Cartwright and Somaiya report, “Murdoch was perturbed because Darcy has aggressively reported on Fox, which he has called a “right-wing propaganda network.” And it seems that Tucker has mastered […]
The Verge says it ran the wrong headline
Sarah Joeng, a features editor at The Verge, writes about how it ran the wrong headline with the story about the firing of two Federal Trade Commission commissioners. Joeng writes, “News outlets — including The Verge — all went up with their articles as fast as they could. The headlines and stories across the board […]
NYU ethics award finalists named
The Washington Post, a New Yorker podcast series, the Guardian, and Mississippi Today are among the finalists for the Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism, which celebrates journalism that meets the highest ethical standards in the face of pressure or incentives to do otherwise. Administered by New York University’s Ethics and Journalism Initiative, the new prize commends work—in […]
Allstate PR asked to delete execs quotes
Victor Tangermann of Futurism writes about how Allstate public relations representatives pushed it to take down quotes from an executive in The Wall Street Journal about how it was using artificial intelligence in claims emails. Tangermann writes, “To be clear, it’s not out of the ordinary for spokespeople to reach out to journalists to dispute factual […]
Bezos vs. Bezos: Amazon sues to keep records from Washington Post
The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business, reports Todd Bishop of Geekwire. Bishop reports, “Amazon is suing Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post from a series of state Department of Labor […]
Fortune deletes story about X after hoax
Fortune magazine deleted a story about upcoming changes at social media site X after it discovered it was a hoax, reports Kipp Jones of Mediaite. Jones reports, “In an article that went out on Fortune’s social media channels and to MSN and Google news, the publication claimed that Musk was planning major and obviously odd changes, including […]
CoinDesk journalists concerned about owner interference
Leo Schwartz of Fortune examines cryptocurrency news operation CoinDesk under its new owners, which forced editors to take down a story. Schwartz reports, “The article was titled ‘I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World’s Most Expensive Banana. I Don’t Get It.’ It provided context about the art world and the banana-eating stunt, as well as background […]
Intuit asked The Verge to delete part of a podcast
Intuit asked The Verge to delete part of a podcast where editor in chief Nilay Patel asked its CEO about tax code reform. Patel writes, “Here’s where it got weird. I couldn’t have the CEO of Intuit on without asking about tax reform in the United States. Individual income taxes are more complicated in the US than […]
Reuters pulls stories on anti-doping agency
Reuters has pulled two stories about the World Anti-Doping Agency after it was discovered that one of its officials obtained a Reuters news agency accreditation to attend the Masters golf tournament, reports Martyn Ziegler of The Times of London. Ziegler reports, “Senior Reuters staff were unaware that Fitzgerald had been accredited as an agency representative. He is […]
Economist Group cancels cancer conference due to tobacco company ties
A division of the publisher of the Economist has canceled a high-profile cancer conference amid a backlash from speakers and attendees over its association with the tobacco companies, reports Mark Sweney and Anna Bawden of The Guardian. Sweney and Bawden report, “Economist Impact, part of the Economist Group, which owns the eponymous weekly business magazine, was due to hold […]
