Bloomberg reporter recommends quote structure for source
John Aravosis writes on the AmericaBlog that Bloomberg News reporter Dan Golden suggested a potential quote for a source, investment banker Mark DeFusco, when a story he was working on about for-profit educational companies was being edited. Aravosis writes, “Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that Bloomberg is reportedly writing critical stories about […]
Denver TV biz reporter disappears from air after one week on job
Roy Edroso of Denver Westword wants to know what happened to morning business reporter Jason Martinez of local NBC affiliate 9News, who was hired with much fanfare and then hasn’t been seen on the air in more than a week. Edroso writes, “It sounded like a big deal when 9News, an NBC affiliate, hired Martinez […]
WSJ deputy ME Murray goes undercover to get the story
Here is what happens when a policeman outside the Greenwich, Conn., home of hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones tried to stop Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray from filming his Christmas lights outside his house: Hardcore business journalism at its best. Happy Holidays.
Reuters editor in chief says story wasn't spiked due to pressure
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Reuters editor in chief David Schlesinger sent out the following e-mail Wednesday afternoon to the news service’s editorial managers after Talking Biz News reported Monday that Reuters spiked a story about a hedge fund manager after he pressured them. Schlesinger’s e-mail stated, “There’s been blog chatter in the US this week that […]
Reuters kills hedge fund story after pressure
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Reuters editors last week killed a story by investigative reporter Matthew Goldstein about hedge fund trader Steven Cohen after Cohen complained to top Thomson Reuters executives that he was being persecuted by the news agency’s reporting, sources at Reuters said. Goldstein’s story was an “incremental” advance in the reports swirling around […]
When business journalists make fact errors, despite good writing
Paul Smalera of True/Slant has issued with business journalists Matt Taibbi and Chris Lehmann making fact errors in recent stories and downplaying their significance. Smalera writes, “Can I say, when I started in research at my first business journalism job, how daunting it was to be handed the monster tome of Barron’s Finance and Investment […]
NPR ombudsman questions sponsorship of "Planet Money"
National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard investigated the sponsorships by a financial services company of NPR’s “Planet Money” blog and show. Shepard writes, “Ally’s relationship with NPR is a new one in an era when NPR, like other news organizations, is finding it necessary to search for new revenue streams. At NPR, sponsor credits typically […]
Fox Biz's Bolling: You have to have skin in the game
Fox Business Network’s Eric Bolling talking with Wall St. Cheat Sheet’s Damien Hoffman about his career as a financial journalist and how it evolved out of his trading career. In the interview, Bolling stated: 1. “I helped launch Fast Money and really loved it. I had fun sitting on the Fast Money panel talking about […]
Loomis and Buffett: A new disclosure
Talking Biz News has been criticized in the past for raising questions about the relationship between Fortune reporter Carol Loomis and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Back in 2007, Talking Biz News reported on how Loomis was able to report before any other business journalist about the contents of the Berkshire Hathaway annual report. Loomis […]
FT accused of making journalists write advertorials
Mark Sweeney of The Guardian in London reports that the Financial Times is investigating allegations that advertisers have paid for articles to be printed as editorial in its FT Business specialist magazine publishing division. Sweeney writes, “A spokesman for the Financial Times said the company took the allegations ‘very seriously,’ but had not been provided […]
