Former biz reporter sues Columbus Dispatch
When does a former business reporter sue his former newspaper? When he feels as if he was fired because of his battle against cancer. That’s the situation at the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, where...
Tagged: Ethics
Whither Regulation Fair Disclosure?
Regulation Fair Disclosure, or Reg FD as it is commonly called, was enacted more than five years ago by the SEC to require companies to provide information to all investors at the same time....
Ethics and business journalism
If you were a business reporter and you discovered that a company or an executive that you were writing about had done something wrong, would you take that information to the authorities so that...
Coverage of Apple Computer
Is it too laudatory? Are we seeing the first signs of the media going back to its fawning ways of covering business from the 1990s when we look at how Apple Computer has been...
Baltimore Sun update
Remember when I posted last week about the Baltimore Sun architecture critic who was investing in homes in neighborhoods he was writing about? The Sun is apparently making him divest of those properties before...
Bad disclosure
It was recently disclosed in the Baltimore City Paper that the Baltimore Sun’s architecture writer owned real estate in a number of neighborhoods in which he writes about. Maybe it’s just me, but I...
Carol Loomis update
I posted an item last week about Carol Loomis, the long-time Fortune writer whose memoirs of her 51-year career at the magazine were recently published in the 75th anniversary issue. I had a chance...
Carol Loomis and Fortune
There is a great story in the latest issue of Fortune magazine about Carol Loomis, the writer who has spent 51 years at the publication. She recounts her experience in covering various stories. I...
