Reuters EIC Adler: We need to be more transparent in our coverage
Reuters must be more transparent in how it covers stories, editor in chief Stephen Adler said in an interview with The Drum. Ian Burrell of The Drum writes, “In an interview with The Drum, Stephen J. Adler, the president and editor-in-chief of Reuters, sets out how the organisation plans to ‘double down’ on efforts to […]
Techdirt being sued by supposed email founder
Techdirt founder Mike Masnick is being sued for $15 million in a libel lawsuit over articles that doubted a man’s claim that he invented email. Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “For Techdirt, Masnick writes a wonky tech policy blog that has earned a loyal following for taking strong stances on issues like copyright, net neutrality, security issues […]
WSJ’s Baker: I have not banned “lie” when covering Trump
Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker expands on comments he made Sunday on “Meet the Press” about using the word “lie” when referring to false statements made by president-elect Donald Trump. Baker writes, “Note that I said I’d be ‘careful’ in using the word ‘lie.’ I didn’t ban the word from the Journal’s lexicon. Evidently, this carefulness […]
WSJ to avoid using “lies” when writing about Trump
The Wall Street Journal will not use the word “lie” when referring to president-elect Donald Trump’s statements that are false because it implies moral intent, editor Gerald Baker said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Kate Sheppard of The Huffington Post writes, “Baker appeared on NBC’s ‘Meet The Press’ Sunday, where he described some of President-elect Donald Trump’s […]
LA Times biz columnist: Trump threatened to sue me
David Lazarus, a business columnist for the Los Angeles Times, writes Thursday about how president-elect Donald Trump threatened to sue him after he wrote critically about Trump University. Lazarus writes, “I got a distinctly different impression when I attended a Trump University seminar at the Pasadena Hilton in 2007 and spoke with prospective and former […]
Highland Capital seeks name of author of Dealbreaker post
Highland Capital Management LP on Thursday asked a New York state judge to order the operator of Dealbreaker.com to disclose information that could help it identify whoever posted a comment that the hedge fund firm considered “defamatory,” reports Jonathan Stempel of Reuters. Stempel writes, “Breaking Media and Dealbreaker were not accused of wrongdoing by Highland, which according […]
Study: Male CEOs treated differently than female CEOs in coverage
A Rockefeller Foundation study could not find a single news article written about a male CEO that mentioned family life, according to a report from Emily Peck of The Huffington Post. Peck writes, “But perhaps most significantly, female CEOs are more often blamed when things go wrong at their company. When a company led by a woman […]
Dobbs apologizes after tweeting address, phone number of Trump accuser
Fox Business Network anchor Lou Dobbs tweeted the phone number and address of one of the women of has accused presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual harassment, reports Peter Sterne of Politico. He later apologized. Sterne writes, “Dobbs linked to a post from a conservative news site that purported to link Leeds to the Clinton Foundation. The site published […]
Bartiromo posts, then deletes tweet that smears Clinton
Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo posted a comment on Twitter this weekend that smeared presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that was then deleted, writes Erik Wemple of The Washington Post. Wemple writes, “The slime here couldn’t possibly be more complete. Instead of having used an epithet against a group of people, Clinton was expressing her […]
Silicon Valley Biz Journal editor recuses himself from Yahoo coverage
A story on the Silicon Valley Business Journal website Friday afternoon says that its editor has recused himself from the newspaper’s Yahoo coverage. The editor, Scott Ard, sued Yahoo and CEO Marissa Mayer earlier this week alleging that the company had a system of eliminating male employees. The story, written by Jon Wile and Craig Douglas, states, “Scott Ard, […]
