When Merrill Lynch tried to bribe Charles Gasparino
Fox Business Network senior correspondent Charles Gasparino spoke with Playboy magazine’s Rob Tannenbaum about his career. Here is an excerpt: It’s cruel that the people who most need financial advice can’t get it. That’s changed over the past 30 years, right? Yes. I broke a story when I was a reporter at The Wall Street […]
Bloomberg’s Halperin apologizes to presidential candidate
Bloomberg Politics co-host Mark Halperin apologized to Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday for a recent interview in which he asked the Texas Republican to demonstrate his Cuban heritage by answering cultural questions and speaking in Spanish, reports Dylan Byers of Politico. Byers writes, “‘We wanted to talk with Senator Cruz about his outreach to Latino […]
Yahoo sues ex-employee for giving information to reporter
Yahoo Inc. sued a former employee over claims she “brazenly” divulged confidential information about the company to a reporter who was writing a book about Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer’s leadership. Joel Rosenblatt and Brian Womack of Bloomberg News report, “Yahoo claims that Cecile Lal, a former senior director of product management, broke a confidentiality […]
Illinois governor refuses to take questions at SABEW
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner refused to take questions on Saturday after speaking to a room full of business journalists at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference in Chicago. “I was shocked when the governor refused to take questions, and as far as I know in the history of SABEW, no guest […]
BuzzFeed removed articles after advertiser complaints
BuzzFeed on Saturday disclosed that it had found three instances when complaints from business-side employees who worked with advertisers resulted in the deletion of articles, reports Steven Perlberg of The Wall Street Journal. Perlberg writes, “The three advertiser-related deletions, which involved Unilever-owned Axe, Microsoft and Pepsi, were ‘pulled after an editor fielded a complaint from […]
Biz reporter sues businessman, alleges he stole magazine idea
A former Star-Ledger business reporter is suing a New Jersey real estate investor, claiming he stole his idea for a magazine devoted to covering Newark’s downtown. Thomas Zambito writes, “In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court Tuesday, Philip Read says Paul Profeta took his idea for a magazine called ‘The Downtowner’ and turned it […]
Coverage: Columbia Journalism reviews Rolling Stone UVA story
The Columbia Journalism School published its report on the breakdown of Rolling Stone’s story about an alleged rape at the University of Virginia. Its findings call into question decisions made by everyone at the organization and it details ways it could have prevented the story’s publication. Rolling Stone published the report by Sheila Coronel, Steve […]
Frankie Flack: Enough with the April Fools’ releases
I have a tradition today. I take the day off as a “floating holiday.” I remove the battery from my cell phone. I shut down my wi-fi. And then I settle into my den and watch all three Godfathers, back to back. That’s because I’m in the information business, and for those of us in […]
Entrepreneur editor: Prank us on April Fools’ and you’re banned
“Earned” media should be earned. And coming up with something asinine on April Fools’ doesn’t cut it. Wednesday is the day of fake press releases. Companies spend a depressingly large amount of time finding a cute way to get attention for their clients by writing prank releases, in the hope that A) we business journalists […]
Economist cover on Latinos is criticized
Jessica Torres of Media Matters for America writes Monday about the latest cover of The Economist, which features peppers and has a story about the rise of Latinos. Torres writes, “A March 14 Economist article titled ‘How to fire up America’ featured the cover image, which plays into offensive and antiquated stereotypes about Latinos. Later […]
