CEO blames housing slowdown on the media
Toll Brothers CEO Douglas Yearly blamed media reports about the housing market for the slowdown in sales, reports Michael Sheetz of CNBC.com. Sheetz writes, “‘In November, we saw the market soften further, which we attribute to the cumulative impact of rising interest rates and the effect on buyer sentiment of well-publicized reports of a housing […]
WSJ corrects story calling Russian president “Vladimir Trump”
The Wall Street Journal has corrected a story calling Russian president Vladimir Putin the name “Vladimir Trump,” reports Aris Folley of The Hill. Folley writes, “‘Vladimir Putin is president of Russia. An editing mistake misidentified Mr. Putin in an earlier version of this article. (Nov. 29),’ the publication noted at the bottom of an article […]
Bloomberg continues to report on China hacking story
Bloomberg News is continuing to do reporting on its blockbuster story last month that appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek that claimed that China had hacked its way into software produced by companies such as Apple and Super Micro, reports Erik Wemple of The Washington Post. The reporting is being done by Ben Elgin, who was not part of the […]
How the WSJ is detecting fake video content
Francesco Marconi and Till Daldrup of The Wall Street Journal write for The Nieman Lab about how the newspaper is using technology to determine fake video content. Marconi and Daldrup write, “If someone has sent in suspicious footage, a good first step is to try to contact the source. How did that person obtain it? Where and when […]
Should business journalism only focus on investment opportunities?
Freelance business journalist Karen K. Ho talked with Bloomberg News reporter Jordyn Holman, who covers gender, race and class in the business world, and Columbia University professor Bill Grueskin about how a lot of business news is produced for the investment community and doesn’t discuss issues that affect society. They talked on the CanadaLand podcast. […]
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 […]
