Loeb winner on trial for libel in Angola
Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Moraes, who helped Forbes document that one of the country’s residents was worth $3 billion, resulting in a Gerald Loeb Award earlier this year, now faces a libel trail for accusing military leaders in the country of torture and homicide, writes Kerry Dolan of Forbes. Dolan writes, “Reporters Without Borders, […]
LA Times publisher likes paper’s balanced business coverage
Austin Beutner, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, made some comments about the paper’s business coverage on Wednesday that were misconstrued, reports Kevin Roderick of LAObserved.com. He actually likes its tough coverage. Roderick writes, “One line in particular, quoted by LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky, really got the attention of reporters and editors in […]
Two Bloomberg stories a year apart with nearly identical leads
More than a year ago, on Oct. 31, 2013, Bloomberg News reporters Mariko Yasu and Gracue Huang wrote a story about Sony Corp. The lead was: Sony (6758) Corp. President Kazuo Hirai is paying the price for trying to revive ailing TV and smartphone sales, with more than $2 billion of market value lost today, […]
Companies shouldn’t be spying on journalists
Steve Kovach of Business Insider writes that no company should spy on a journalist the way that Uber claimed it wanted to spy on tech journalist Sarah Lacy. Kovach writes, “What’s the point of doing that to a journalist? A journalist writes a critical column about your company, and you do what? Publish on your […]
Tech reporters balance between booster and critic
Leslie Kaufman of the New York Times examines the world of Silicon Valley technology journalism in the wake of a disclosure that Uber wanted to investigate the personal life of tech reporter Sarah Lacy of Pando Daily because she wrote a critical story about the company. Kaufman writes, “The vitriolic podcast — and the reaction […]
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 […]
