WSJ reporters complain about attempts to take graphic offline
A group of Wall Street Journal reporters sent out the following email on Thursday: Colleagues, This week a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal attempted to take a graphic offline because the facts it contained were not politically palatable. When that failed, it was “de-surfaced,” or in other terms, taken off the front page […]
Coverage: Facebook loses $40 billion in market value
Social media company Facebook Inc. saw $40 billion in market capitalization wiped away on Monday after it was disclosed that the company allowed Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that helped the Trump campaign, to access data on users without their express permission and hold that data for years despite saying that it had destroyed those records. Mark DeCambre and Emily […]
WSJ fires video editor over sexual misconduct
The Wall Street Journal’s top video editor, Chris Moran, has been fired for sexual misconduct allegations following an internal review, reports Amber Athey and Joe Simonson of The Daily Caller. Athey and Simonson report, “‘Dow Jones takes allegations of misconduct very seriously,’ the spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation. ‘Following an internal review, Chris […]
Bloomberg to start training female executives for media appearances
Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg’s senior executive editor for diversity, talent, standards and training, posted a blog Tuesday outlining how the news organization plans to “raise women’s voices” in its coverage including a new pilot program to train more women for media appearances. Zelenko writes: The push for more women’s voices has involved drawing up lists that […]
New Bloomberg rule: At least one woman on panels
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait announced a new policy on outside speaking engagements for Bloomberg journalists as an expansion of the newsroom’s efforts to promote gender equality and diversity. The new policy requires that at least one woman be on a panel in order for Bloomberg journalists to participate. That woman could be the […]
How hacked emails and a yacht ended the career of a WSJ reporter
Former Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon writes for Columbia Journalism Review about how hacked emails and a yacht ended his career. Solomon writes, “But the hack of Azima’s data set off a chain of events that eventually cost me my job as the Journal’s chief foreign affairs correspondent last June. It was a position […]
Wired editor Thompson denies using information from job interview
Wired editor Nicholas Thompson denied using information from a job interview last year with Mashable deputy teach editor Michael Nuñez in his cover story this month on Facebook, reports Michael Calderone of Politico. Calderone writes, “Nuñez interviewed with Thompson for a job at Wired in late April 2017 and told me they discussed his Gizmodo […]
When a biz owner wants to review a story before publication
Brian Todd, a reporter for the Post Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota, writes about how sources often ask to review a story, or a quote, before it’s published. Todd writes, “Hard-working business reporter Jeff Kiger said the people who most often ask to ‘look things over first’ are business owners. Most, he said, have only dealt […]
International Biz Times has been buying online traffic
The International Business Times has been engaging in fraudulent online traffic practices that helped it secure a major ad buy from a U.S. government agency, reports Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed. Silverman reports, “IBTimes.com, the publisher’s US business site, last year won a significant portion of a large video and display advertising campaign for the Consumer […]
What the kids of Wired editor Nick Thompson think of his work
Wired magazine editor in chief Nicholas Thompson posted the following on LinkedIn: 7-year-old: “When you call people for your job, what are you doing?” Me: “Well some of it is calling people I work with and some of it is reporting.” 7-year-old: “What’s reporting?” Me: “It’s trying to figure out information and stories. You find […]
