How Alabama Power influences coverage
Miranda Green of Floodlight writes about how Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Co., influences coverage in the state about its operations. Green writes, “Coverage of the utility by the Birmingham Times, which was funded with money from Alabama Power’s charitable arm the Alabama Power Foundation, consists of reprinted stories from the News Center and the utility’s own press […]
Law professor: No case against Business Insider
Matt Stieb of New York Magazine’s Intelligencer interviewed Edward Klaris, an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and former counsel at Condé Nast, about whether billionaire Bill Ackman and his wife have a case against Business Insider. Here is an excerpt: Ackman has lashed out on social media and threatened to “unleash hell” on Business Insider for what […]
Business Insider CEO note to staff on Oxman stories
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Sunday to the staff: We are a journalism organization with high standards and a commitment to truth and fairness. Regarding the recent reporting on Neri Oxman, we feel it’s important to share the following: There was no unfair bias or personal, political, and/or religious motivation […]
Internal review backs Business Insider story
Reports of plagiarism against the academic Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, are “accurate and well documented,” reports Sam Jones of The Financial Times. Jones reports, “In a memorandum sent to Business Insider reporters on Sunday, a copy of which was seen by the Financial Times, chief executive Barbara Peng said an […]
Prominent tech newsletter leaving Substack
Casey Newton, a technology journalist and founder of Platformer, is leaving Substack over its failure to moderate Nazi and pro-Holocaust content, reports Taylor Lorenz and Will Oremus of The Washington Post. Lorenz and Oremus write, “Newton’s announcement comes days after Substack said it would ban five Nazi-affiliated accounts that it had found in violation of its policy against […]
Axel Springer spokesman: Facts in Business Insider’s story stand
Dylan Byers of Puck interviewed Axel Springer’s head of communications, Adib Sisani, about the complaints billionaire Bill Ackman has made over Business Insider’s coverage of his wife and problems with her dissertation. Byers writes, “In a phone call this week, Sisani told me that the company launched the review because Axel took Ackman’s accusations so seriously—chiefly, the […]
Business Insider EIC Carlson stands by Oxman stories
Business Insider global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson sent out the following to the staff on Sunday: Team, We published two stories about Neri Oxman this week. She is a well-known academic who know runs a startup. Those stories uncovered plagiarism in her academic papers. The first story revealed plagiarism similar to the kind found in Claudine Gay’s work. […]
Investing.com using AI to copy competitor stories
Max Tani of Semafor writes about how Investing.com is using artificial intelligence to create stories that are strikingly similar to competitors. Tani writes, “Investing did not respond to multiple requests for comment, though an administrator at the site said in an email that the organization had received my note asking how the publication was using […]
How media companies internal agencies cater to fossil fuel companies
Amy Westervelt and Matthew Green write for Drilled about how the content agencies of major media companies produce misleading content for fossil fuel companies. Westervelt and Green write, “Reuters is one of at least seven major news outlets whose internal brand studio creates and publishes misleading promotional content for fossil fuel companies, according to a new report released today. Known as […]
Business Insider promoted story in snarky Reddit
Business Insider published a lengthy story about an underwear start-up and its CEO last week, and then featured it in a Reddit that is typically devoted to snark, reports Taylor Lorenz of The Washington Post. Lorenz writes, “The Reddit post about Téllez didn’t gain much traction, but the fact that the news organization engaged in this way […]
