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 […]
How a hedge fund using reporters would operate
Kate Duguid, Joshua Franklin, Ortenca Aliaj and James Fontanella-Khan of The Financial Times examine how Hunterbrook, the hedge-fund like operation using journalists to provide research, would operate. Duguid, Franklin, Aliaj and Fontanella-Khan report, “Reporters at the company will not seek out material non-public information though, like a hedge fund, may encounter it while reporting. “Any articles written by Hunterbrook […]
Cointelegraph apologizes for false tweet
Cyrptocurrency news site Cointelegraph has apologized for a tweet falsely stating that the Securities and Exchange Commission had approved a Bitcoin exchange traded fund. A story on its website states, “Earlier today, during routine coverage, Cointelegraph’s social media team posted a message on X without prior editorial approval stating that the United States Securities and […]
TV anchor Ruhle’s relationship with company executive questioned
Khadeeja Safdar of The Wall Street Journal examines the relationship between MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle and Under Armour executive Kevin Plank, noting litigation about her messages to him when she was at Bloomberg Television. Safdar writes, “Plank and Ruhle corresponded regularly and at all hours, according to the documents. In 2016, Plank sent Ruhle what he described as […]
