St. Louis Biz Journal criticized for posing business women with their shoes

The St. Louis Business Journal is being criticized for profiling the city’s 25 “Most Influential Business Women” in a photo gallery that shows each with a pair of shoes, writes Kate Irby of McClatchy. Irby writes, “‘We asked this year’s class of Most Influential Business Women to tell us about the pair of shoes that best describes them, and […]

Covering Silicon Valley is perilous and fraught with issues

Adrienne LaFrance writes for Nieman Reports about the issues covering tech companies in Silicon Valley. LaFrance writes, “The first time I visited Facebook’s office in Washington, D.C., I was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement. I didn’t. “Then there was the time I got through an entire interview with a product manager at Apple, only to […]

Company sues ex-worker for providing info to Bloomberg reporter

WeWork Companies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a former employee who gave company financial information to a Bloomberg News reporter. Herbert Lash of Reuters writes, “In a complaint filed late on Friday with the New York Supreme Court for Manhattan, WeWork accused Joanna Strange, who was fired June 10, of unlawful access to its computers […]

You don’t argue with biz media who buy ink by the barrel

Example No. 8,791 of a company CEO who doesn’t like how his business is reported on in the business media occurred this week when Fortune reported several stories about Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors. The first story was when business journalism legend Carol Loomis reported that Tesla didn’t report in a timely fashion to its shareholders that one […]

Technical glitch results in problems for media reporting Fed minutes

The Federal Reserve Board issued the following statement on Wednesday: A technical error occurred Wednesday during the media lock-up for the release of the minutes of the June meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. As a result of the error in the use of the Federal Reserve equipment that cuts off and enables electronic […]

Fox Biz’s Smith interviews another John Browne

Fox Business Network Sandra Smith interviewed a former British member of parliament named John Browne about whether the country should leave the European Union, but it wasn’t the one that she thought had written a Wall Street Journal column about the decision. The Browne who wrote the Journal opinion piece was the former BP CEO and […]

Environmental group buys WSJ ads criticizing paper’s stance

Paul Farhi of The Washington Post reports about an environmental group that is running a series of ads on The Wall Street Journal editorial page criticizing its view on global warming. Farhi writes, “According to internal documents supplied by the environmental organization, the newspaper is charging the group $36,528 for the Journal-bashing ad while charging $27,309 each […]

CNBC reports NFL commissioner dead after Twitter hacked

CNBC inaccurately reported that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had died after the league’s Twitter account was hacked, reports Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood. Patten reports, “At around 12:40 PM ET Tuesday, a graphic appeared at the bottom of CNBC’s screen announcing that the NFL boss had passed away. While the network never cut to a story on Goodell supposedly being […]

How Thiel’s Gawker battle could influence Silicon Valley coverage

Vivek Wadhwa writes for Inc. about how Peter Thiel’s legal battle against Gawker could influence Silicon Valley coverage by other media. Wadhwa writes, “Other than Gawker’s tech website, Valleywag, which was shut down this year, there are few publications in Silicon Valley that will confront its tech moguls and overhyped start-ups. Witness theethical breaches committed by […]

Tech titans push back against news media

David Streitfeld and Mike Isaac of the New York Times write about how tech executives in Silicon Valley are happy that PayPal founder Peter Thiel has funded litigation against Gawker. Streitfeld and Isaac write, “In some ways Silicon Valley’s reaction is not surprising. A journalist’s job, at least in theory, is to ask questions and print the truth, […]