How to play business journalists like a fiddle
Someone pointed out a Q&A interview between Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Forbes writer Victoria Murphey Barret to me today, but I’m just now getting around to reading it. The interview was posted this morning, and it includes comments from Benioff on how to present a company to the media. Benioff provides the following suggestions […]
Ethical questions raised about Bartiromo
Reuters reporter Dan Wilchins writes late Wednesday that the actions by CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo to accept a ride back from China on a Citigroup jet, which led to the firing of a bank executive, raises ethical questions about the business cable news channel’s star. Wilchins wrote, “Personal relationships are crucial to reporters who vie […]
Citigroup/CNBC plane ride is now a "scandal"
Fox News Radio host John Gibson has an editorial about the plane ride given to CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo on a Citigroup corporate jet that apparently led to an executive at the company losing his job. Gibson makes some excellent points related to business journalism. He wrote, “Now remember: This is a financial journalist taking […]
More on Bartiromo and the banker
More coverage emerged Wednesday over the ouster of Citigroup banker Todd Thomson due to his inability to control costs, including kicking other Citi executives off a flight from China so that CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo could use the plane. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Wednesday that some Citi executives advised Thomson that he needed […]
Bartiromo took trip on Citi jet
The New York Post and New York Times are reporting that one of the reasons that Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince ousted the head of its wealth management business was that he didn’t like the fact that Todd Thomson shuttled personal friends, including CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, around on the corporate jet. The Post story stated, […]
Why no women were in Washington Post story on steakhouses
Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell pointed out in her Saturday column that readers noticed a business section story omitted any mention of women in the story, photo and graphic. She wrote, “Jessica G. Riley of Arlington was upset that Monday’s Business section story and graphic on steakhouses frequented by the business and political elite didn’t […]
The online war between a CEO and a biz journalist
Dan Mitchell of the New York Times takes note of the increasing online flaming going on between Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne and business journalist Gary Weiss in the weekly “What’s Online” column. Mitchell wrote, “Entries on message boards devoted to discussing Overstock.com asserted that Mr. Byrne was behind an anonymously written Web site, AntiSocialMedia.net, that […]
CNN show selectively picks and chooses quotes
Ken Shepherd of the Business & Media Institute writes Wednesday that a recent segment on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show seletively uses quotes from a source that makes them appear to be in favor of raising taxes when they are not. Shepherd wrote, “Anchor Lou Dobbs sounded the alarm about federal highways ‘now being sold […]
Law professor: Backdating is business journalism scandal
University of Illinois law professor Larry Ribstein, who is a frequent critic of business journalists when it comes to their writing about compensation, posted on his Ideoblog that the recent controversy about companies backdating stock options to the lowest price of the stock is not that big of a deal. Ribstein wrote that the coverage […]
More WSJ journalists upset about jet story
Women’s Wear Daily broke the story late last year that a number of reporters at The Wall Street Journal were upset about a story about timeshare jets that ran next to the ads of some companies in the story, and now Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post has more. Kurtz wrote, “Some Journal staffers, meanwhile, […]
