Yahoo Finance backtracks on personal finance story
Mandi Woodruff, a personal finance writer for Yahoo Finance, writes Wednesday about how a story earlier this month about a self-made 27-year-old millionaire turned out to be false. Woodruff writes, “In personal finance reporting, much of what we write about is based on first-person accounts shared with us by everyday consumers. A difficult part of […]
Pando Daily’s Lacy: My responsibility is to readers
Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang and Cory Johnson spoke with Sarah Lacy, the editor in chief of the tech news site Pando Daily, who was the tech reporter targeted by a Uber executive last week for possible investigation because of a negative article she wrote about the company. Here is an excerpt of what Lacy said: […]
Bloomberg’s Winkler: Enterprise stories should include one female voice
Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler included the following in his weekly notes to the staff: All Bloomberg News enterprise work must include at least one woman’s voice, and preferably a balance of men and women. Women are engaged in every topic we cover. Our journalism should reflect that variety. See MSG6 BNWOMENSOURCE for […]
Coverage: Uber investigates journalists?
On Tuesday morning, many woke up to the news that a senior vice president at Uber bragged at a dinner about spending $1 million to investigate journalists whose coverage the company didn’t like. BuzzFeed News broke the original story and had this follow-up later in the day by Charlie Warzel: This afternoon on Twitter, Uber […]
Uber executive wanted to investigate reporters
The Uber senior vice president of business suggested investigating journalists who write negative stories about the company, reports Ben Smith of BuzzFeed. Smith writes, “Over dinner, he outlined the notion of spending ‘a million dollars’ to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the […]
Saudi prince has spent $2.2 million fighting Forbes
One of the world’s richest men, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, has spent $2.2 million in legal fees so far fighting a libel battle with the business magazine Forbes, reports Jane Croft of The Financial Times. Croft writes, “Andrew Caldecott QC, representing Forbes, alleged to the court that part of his client’s case […]
Former CBS reporter alleges network killed stories about advertisers
Erik Wemple of The Washington Post writes that former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s new book claims that the network suppressed stories about corporate partners. Wemple writes, “Perhaps the most spectacular allegation against Attkisson’s former employer relates to influence by corporate interests on the news product. The way Attkisson tells it, a script that she’d […]
WaPo’s Pearlstein didn’t intend to disparage TheStreet’s Feuerstein
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein has sent the following letter to TheStreet.com editor in chief Janet Guyon in the wake of his Sept. 27 column that was critical of TheStreet reporter Adam Feuerstein: Dear Janet and Adam, I understand from your letter, which was posted on your website, that you read my Sept. 27 […]
Forbes.com axes other contributors
Brett Arends, a columnist for Marketwatch.com who had been contributing to Forbes.com, posted the following on his Facebook page: I am sorry to report that I have been axed by Forbes in the fallout over Bill Frezza’s incompetent article about college fraternities last week. Yes, I know what some of you are going to say. […]
MarketWatch.com editor bans photos of traders on stock market floor
Jeremy Olshan, the editor of Marketwatch.com, has banned photos of traders on the stock market floor from the financial news website, noting that they’re no longer a true reflection of how the market works. Olshan writes, “The Big Board is now little more than a Big Tent for a phony media circus of photo-ops and […]
