Beef company’s lawsuit against ABC News to continue
A judge in South Dakota has cleared the way to trial of a lawsuit claiming ABC News “pink slime” coverage caused $1.9 billion worth of damage to the business of Beef Products Inc., which makes the meat product tagged with the term, reports Peg Brickley of The Wall Street Journal. Brickley writes, “Five years in […]
JetSmarter tries to extort journalists for positive coverage
JetSmarter, a company billed as Uber for private jets, has been sending an agreement to business journalists in an attempt to get them to cover the company uncritically, reports T.C. Sottek of The Verge. Sottek writes, “We’ve seen plenty of aggressive requests from companies that want positive coverage, but perhaps none as absurd as what we just […]
Angry CEO tweets sex phone number to Bloomberg reporter
The CEO of Hootsuite, a Canadian social media management startup, responded to a Bloomberg reporter’s request for comment on Tuesday by directing him to a paid sex phone hotline, reports Caroline O’Donovan of BuzzFeed. O’Donovan writes, “Bloomberg News reporter Gerrit De Vynck published a story making the case that Hootsuite is overvalued at $1 billion and is […]
Tech reporting has become more negative
Technology reporting has become more negative in the past 30 years, focusing more on the harmful effects, according to a study by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. The study reviewed tech coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal from 1986 to 2013. The report, written by Doug Allen and […]
The tension between Baker and the WSJ newsroom
David Leonhardt of The New York Times writes about the issues between Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker and his newsroom, which believes it’s been forced to tone down coverage of President Donald Trump. Leonhardt writes, “Reporters and editors have become accustomed to the ‘shaving off the edges’ of Trump-related stories, one said, especially in […]
WSJ’s Baker defends its coverage of Trump
Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker defended the paper’s coverage in a town hall meeting with the staff on Monday, telling staffers that if they disagreed that they should seek work elsewhere, reports Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post. Calderone writes, “‘Don’t let anybody get away with saying our reporting of Donald Trump has been […]
Transgender “Marketplace” reporter fired over blog post
Lewis Wallace, a transgender reporter for public radio business news show “Marketplace,” writes that he was fired from the show after posting a blog with political overtones. Wallace writes, “I was fired for publishing a post on my personal blog about being a transgender journalist exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with […]
WSJ’s Baker: No ban on “Muslim-majority country” phrase
Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday: Given some media reports concerning some editing-related emails I sent last night, let me make a few points about our continuing coverage of President Trump’s executive order on travel to the U.S. There is no ban on the phrase “Muslim-majority […]
Reuters EIC Adler: We will continue to report fairly and honestly
Reuters editor in chief Stephen Adler posted the following on an internal blog on Tuesday: The first 12 days of the Trump presidency (yes, that’s all it’s been!) have been memorable for all – and especially challenging for us in the news business. It’s not every day that a U.S. president calls journalists “among the […]
WSJ settles libel lawsuit with casino billionaire Adelson
The Wall Street Journal said Thursday a libel lawsuit brought by billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson against one of its reporters has been settled. Lukas Alpert of The Journal writes, “Both sides agreed that the suit would be dismissed and that each side would bear its own legal costs, a Journal spokeswoman said. No money is […]
