How the WSJ fought a court order in India to publish a story
Neal Lipschutz, editor of ethics and standards at The Wall Street Journal, talks about how the paper fought a court order in 2015 barring the Journal from running a story about the controversial arrest of a stock analyst in India. After Geeta Anand, a reporter in the paper’s Mumbai bureau, sent a list of questions […]
How one business journalist handled sexual harassment
Shaheen Pasha, a University of Massachusetts journalism professor, writes about how she was sexually harassed when she worked as a business journalist for CNNMoney, Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. Pasha writes, “When I started my career in New York as a financial journalist in the early 2000s, I was often one of […]
Private investigator posed as WSJ reporter
Nick Kostov of The Wall Street Journal writes about how Jean-Charles Brisard, a well-known corporate security and intelligence consultant who lives in Switzerland and France, posed as Journal reporter William Horobin in a meeting with a hedge fund. Kostov reports, “Mr. Brisard declined to comment on whether he was involved in the email correspondence. Google […]
Unhappy with coverage of its biz dealings, Disney bans LA Times from movie previews
Walt Disney Co. has prevented Los Angeles Times entertainment reporters from reviewing its holiday movies because it is not happy with the paper’s coverage of its business dealings with the city of Anaheim. Erik Wemple of the Washington Post reports, “The Los Angeles Times has just published its 2017 Holiday Movie Preview. Prominently featured is […]
Tech news sites quietly use this word too much
Tim Ellis of Geekwire writes about how tech news sites use the word “quietly” in headlines and stories to excess, often creating drama when it’s not needed. Ellis writes, “Apparently whenever a tech company does anything without publishing a press release and running ads during Monday Night Football, tech news sites have decided that the […]
WSJ staff reminded about social media policies
Wall Street Journal executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following to the staff on Thursday morning: Dear All, As all of you know, The Journal has long given strong guidance regarding appropriate use of social media. Still, platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook continue to present us with both opportunities and challenges. At their […]
Biz news networks drop Faber after racist comments
All three business news networks have dropped newsletter publisher Marc Faber from future appearances after he made racist comments in a recent publication, reports Matthew Zeitlin of BuzzFeed. Zeitlin reports, “Following backlash on social media, a CNBC spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that it had no business relationship with Faber and, ‘we do not intend to book him […]
Financial media more trusted in U.S. than rest of the world
Investors trust the financial media more in the United States than in the rest of the world, according to a survey by Natixis Global Asset Management. In the United States, 62 percent trust the financial media at least somewhat, but only 10 percent completely trust the financial media. Globally, 57 percent of investors trust the […]
Advertisers discourage investigative business journalism
The dependence on advertising revenue discourages newsrooms from pursuing critical business news investigations, according to research from Maha Rafi Atal of the University of Cambridge. In Journalism, Atal writes, “Business editors are aware of and concerned about these dual forms of advertiser power and the control it places on their operations. At one outlet, managers said they […]
STAT retracts op-ed piece and changes guidelines
Health care news site STAT has retracted one op-ed piece, as explained in this editor’s note and tightened its standards for opinion pieces and its practices for vetting writers. Executive editor Rick Berke of STAT writes, “We have always asked contributors to disclose any conflicts of interest, and believe the vast majority of the opinion […]
