Portland technology news site Digital Trends is facing an outcry from current and former employees over accusations of a hostile workplace, racial insensitivity and a lack of diversity among employees, reports Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian....
Elinor Mills of CNET writes about the time that the tech news site was banned by Google. Mills writes, “After I pitched the story to my editor, Jim Kerstetter, I spent a month researching and...
Local news stations are running a segment produced by Amazon touting its efforts to keep warehouse employees safe from the coronavirus, reports Annie Palmer of CNBC.com. Palmer reports, “It’s unclear how many television stations ran the segment....
Meg Graham of CNBC.com writes about how she created a fake news website to steal her stories and place them around ads. Graham writes, “I bought a domain through GoDaddy and set up a managed WordPress...
A power struggle at the top of Russia’s leading business newspaper Vedomosti threatens to stifle one of the last remaining independent voices as censorship and the Kremlin’s own influence steadily widens, reports Thomas Grove of The...
Alex Bhattacharji of Los Angeles Magazine examines The Hollywood Reporter, an industry publication that has drawn criticism for editorial interference by its owners. Bhattacharji writes, “The troubles at THR exposed the reality faced by all media outlets...
Sacramento-based business magazine Comstock’s has accused former employee Matthew Keys, who once worked for Reuters, of deleting its YouTube account and videos, reports Sam Stanton of the Sacramento Bee. Stanton writes, “Keys, whose supervised...
Leanna Orr of Institutional Investor writes about how hedge fund Marto Capitol founder Katina Stefanova sent the publication a cease-and-desist letter to try to prevent an article. Orr writes, “That’s when Marto’s lawyers got...
Financial Times reporter Mark Di Stefano has been suspended after the Independent accused him of listening in on sensitive Zoom meetings held by its senior managers telling staff about salary cuts and furloughs, reports...
A Financial Times reporter listened in on confidential and sensitive video calls at rival news organizations as staff were told about salary cuts and furloughs by editors and senior managers, according to a report...
