Bloomberg News to lift ban on anonymous sources?
Jeff Bercovici of Conde Nast Portfolio reports Friday that Bloomberg News is considering lifting its ban on the use of anonymous sources in stories. Bercovici writes, “As the rules now stand, any utterance that appears between quotation marks has to be attributed by name, and the appearance in print of any information attributed to anonymous […]
Chinese business journalist sues government for censure
Tina Wang of Forbes.com reports Thursday that a Chinese business journalist is suing that country’s government for a ruling that caused her business publication to shut down and for her and other journalists to lose their jobs. Wang writes, “A business reporter, Cui Fan, sued a government bureau last week for halting publication of the […]
Tech writer discloses marriage to Google executive
Kara Swisher, who covers the tech beat while running The Wall Street Journal‘s All Things Digital site, disclosed that she married a Google executive earlier this week shortly before the vote for Proposition 8 in California passed. Swisher, in an update of her ethics statement on All Things D, writes, “The Dow Jones Code of Conduct, […]
WSJ contempt trial begins in Singapore
Melanie Lee of Reuters reports Tuesday that the Wall Street Journal‘s contempt case in Singapore has begun, with the country’s attorney general accusing the newspaper of a two-decades-long attack on its judicial system. Lee writes, “Singapore’s attorney general is seeking contempt proceedings against the publisher of the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal, News […]
Business journal editor loses job in dispute about election
William West, the editor of the Central Valley Business Journal in California, says he was fired for writing a letter to the editor of The Stockton Record disagreeing with his employer over her presidential endorsement and her criticism of The Record. A story in the Record stated, “Journal Publisher Sharon Alley-Calone denied the claim, saying she […]
Dow Jones issues correction after GE stock falls
Reuters reports that rival Dow Jones Newswires issued a correction on Wednesday after it ran a story stating that General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt had given earnings guidence for 2009 that caused its stock price to fall. Reuters writes, “The news service said Immelt had been speaking hypothetically when he told a business group […]
Biz journalists: We did not talk economy into a recession
A group of high-level business journalists, speaking Tuesday at the Future of Business Media conference in New York, downplayed any involvement in pushing the economy into its current crisis, reports Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org, which sponsored the event. Andrews writes, “‘This is not a press-driven event. These guys are doing a pretty responsible job, all […]
Court backs NYTimes biz reporter
A New Jersey state appeals court ruled that New York Times business journalist Timothy O’Brien does not have to reveal the identity of three sources who told him that Donald Trump’s true worth lies in the millions of dollars, rather than in the billions as the mogul maintains, writes Troy Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Graham […]
Journalists of color covering the financial crisis
Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute writes Friday about minority business journalists who are covering the current financial crisis, leading with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Tannette Johnson-Elie. Prince writes, “‘Business is usually the last frontier for African-Americans and journalists of color,’ Johnson-Elie told Journal-isms. ‘We typically want to be on the front page and that […]
Reporting, and being part of, the biggest business story
David Bauder of the Associated Press takes a look Wednesday at the business news networks coverage of the current economic crisis and whether CNBC and Fox Business Network have become too much of the story. Bauder writes, “CNBC, which says it is running an investor-driven network rather than a general business news channel, has consciously […]
