Forbes cuts ties with sports business columnist
Forbes magazine cut ties with a contributing columnist and sports economics professor last week after a dispute over his piece about WNBA player salaries. reports Jacob Bogage of The Washington Post. Bogage writes, “David Berri, an economics professor at Southern Utah University who studies gender and sports business and has written three books on the […]
Fox Business bans guest after comment
Fox Business Network will no longer book a guest who blamed the latest migrant caravan on the “Soros-occupied State Department,” reports Avery Anapol of The Hill. Anapol writes, “‘We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,’ Gary Schreier, senior vice president of programming for Fox Business, said in a statement, according to CNN. ‘This episode was a […]
Amazon pulls ads from Bloomberg over China hack story
Amazon.com Inc. pulled its fourth quarter advertisements on Bloomberg’s website, a move some within the media giant think is retribution for its controversial story alleging that Chinese spies hacked into the online retailer’s servers, reports Joseph Bernstein of BuzzFeed News. Bernstein reports, “According to a source in a position to know, Amazon’s digital media buyer, […]
Breaker magazine: Half of crypto sites would publish stories for money
Corin Faife of Breaker reports that half of the crypto news sites he contacted using a fake public relations name and company agreed to publish content on their sites in return for money and not mark the stories as paid content. Faife writes, “Of the 22 outlets who replied conclusively, 12 of them—more than half […]
Bloomberg needs to explain the reporting in its hacking story
Erik Wemple of The Washington Post reports that other media organizations have tried to replicate the story from Bloomberg News about how foreign governments have hacked their way into computer systems from Apple and Amazon but have failed. Wemple writes, “According to a company source, editorial staff has been ‘frustrated’ that competing news organizations haven’t […]
Fox Business pulls out of Saudi Arabia investment conference
Fox Business Network, which had been the lone remaining international media partner participating in this year’s Future Investment Initiative in Saudi Arabia, dropped out of the event on Thursday, reports Hadas Gold and Oliver Darcy of CNN Business. Gold and Darcy report, “Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo, who interviewed bin Salman on stage last year, had been scheduled to appear. […]
Bartiromo appears to be backing away from Saudi conference
Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo appears to be backing away from appearing at a Saudi Arabia investment conference that she spoke at last year in the wake of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reports Jeremy Barr of The Hollywood Reporter. Barr reports, “But, based on Bartiromo’s comments Tuesday morning, the well-known financial journalist seems to be leaning […]
Sorkin, Economist editor Beddoes back out of Saudi conference
New York Times business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and The Economist editor in chief Zanny Minton Beddoes will no longer participate in a Saudi Arabia investment conference after the disappearance of a Washington Post journalist, reports Imani Moise and Saeed Azhar of Reuters. Moise and Azhar report, “Economist Editor-In-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes will not participate in the Future Investment Initiative conference in […]
Bloomberg ups percentage of female guest, journalist appearances on TV and in stories
Women represent 34 percent of the total number of Bloomberg journalists interviewed on Bloomberg Television, up from 28 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the company. The short-term goal is to reach 50 percent. In addition, Bloomberg Television’s female external guests now represent 15 percent of those […]
Why the FT didn’t report on a bank run a decade ago
John Authers of The Financial Times writes about why he didn’t report on a bank run that he saw happening 10 years ago during the financial crisis while visiting his Citibank branch, which was full of Wall Street employees worried about their deposits. Authers writes, “I was finding it a little hard to breathe. There […]
