Dow Jones & Co. executive vice president of consumer Suzi Watford and Wall Street Journal editor for standards and ethics Emma Moody sent out the following on Tuesday: Dear Colleague, Earlier this year we launched our...
Former Washington Post tech reporter Timothy B. Lee, the founder of Rethinking News, writes about the ethics of reporters owning bitcoin and recounts how the newspaper made him sell his cryptocurrency. Lee writes, “The most...
Elaine Izadi of The Washington Post examines the Checks and Balances Project, which looks into corporate activities but whose recent investigations have drawn ethical scrutiny. Izadi reports, “When it investigated the hotel industry, it was...
Longtime business journalist Bill Grueskin writes for Columbia Journalism Review about the case of alleged insider trading where the investor used Bloomberg News reporter Ed Hammond to drop tips of deals that he traded upon. Grueskin...
The federal government has charged the head of a financial firm with using insider information and a relationship with a business reporter to reap a profit. Michael Katz of Chief Investment Officer writes, “According to...
The One America News Network broadcast the phone number of New York Times reporter Rachel Abrams on Thursday, accusing her of harassing the network, reports Thomas Moore of The Hill. Moore reports, “‘One American news is...
Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post writes about online harassment of female technology reporters. Sullivan writes, “Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation, told me last week that the purpose is ‘clearly...
Wired senior writer Kate Knibbs writes about what happened after she sold an NFT — nonfungible token — of one of her tweets for $500. Knibbs writes, “After I sold my tweet NFT, a flurry...
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Forbes three months after filing it, reports Nikhilesh De and Zack Seward of CoinDesk. De and Seward report, “The exchange filed the suit...
The New York Post has deleted a story after being duped by a 22-year-old who claimed he’d taken out a second mortgage on his parents’ home and used the money to invest in GameStop...
