Media now giving H-P the business
TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs, who earlier felt as if the business press was not reporting the Hewlett-Packard spying story aggressively enough, now believes they have swung the pendulum to the other side. Fuchs wrote, “Journalism is a human enterprise, and few of the humans writing about business actually have much experience investing. So ask yourself as […]
Toronto auto section celebrates 20th anniversary
Dennis Morgan, editor of the Wheels section at the Toronto Star, discussed in his Saturday column the positives and negatives to writing about the auto industry. Morgan wrote, “I knew that if Wheels was to be a success, it had to have integrity. I insisted, before taking on the new role, that Wheels should have […]
H-P chair resigns, CEO apologizes to journalists
Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned, effectively immediately, from her position on the board, and CEO Mark Hurd apologized to reporters who were targeted by the company in an investigation to determine who had leaked information about the computer maker to business journalists. In a press conference Friday afternoon, Hurd called the tactics used by […]
H-P apologizes to one reporter
Elizabeth Corcoran of Forbes, who is married to George Anders of The Wall Street Journal, noted in a column posted Friday that Hewlett-Packard Co. called them shortly before the scandal about the company spying on reporters broke to apologize. Anders has written about the company. Corcoran wrote, “For us, the story has gone from weirdly […]
WaPo: H-P CEO approved sting on reporter
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd approved a sting operation against a C-NET reporter who covered the company in an attempt to get the reporter to reveal her anonymous source within the computer company. Ellen Nakashima and Yuki Noguchi wrote, “The document, one of more than two dozen e-mails obtained […]
Spies in the newsroom for H-P?
Hewlett-Packard Corp., under fire for obtaining the phone records of journalists and board members in an attempt to discover a leak within the company, apparently examined placing spies in newsrooms, according to a New York Times article on Wednesday. Damon Darlin and Kurt Eichenwald wrote, “The studies, referred to in a Feb. 2 draft report […]
Business News of the Weird: Vietnam edition
A Vietnamese business journalist has been arrested for allegedly attempting to bribe a company to keep a story that would embarrass the business out of his newspaper, according to wire reports. A Deutsche Presse Agentur reported stated, “Nguyen Hung Son, 37, has been a reporter for Dien Dan Doanh Nghiep (Business Forum) newspaper for 10 […]
Times: H-P tried to plant bug on journalist's computer
A New York Times story Monday about the attempts Hewlett-Packard took to discover a leak among its board members notes that the computer maker took other measures beside obtaining phone records of journalist. Reporter Damon Darlin wrote, “Those briefed on the company’s review of the operation say detectives tried to plant software on at least […]
Miami Herald begins running ads on biz section
The Miami Herald began running advertising on the front page of its business section on Tuesday, joining newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Orlando Sentinal in beginning to sell space on its business section front in an attempt to increase revenue. The ad is stripped across the bottom of the page, and […]
Who ripped off Herb's phone records?
In the wake of the Hewlett-Packard scandal in which the company admitted it obtained phone records of its board members and business journalists to determine the source of an information leak, MarketWatch columnist Herb Greenberg noted that he never found out who illegally obtained his phone records two years ago. Greenberg wrote, “I never knew […]
