Why Seeking Alpha accepts anonymous posts
Eli Hoffmann, senior vice president of content and editor in chief of SeekingAlpha.com, writes about why the financial news site accepts anonymous posts. A hedge fund manager is currently taking legal action against the site to find out who disclosed one of his investment positions before it became public. Hoffmann writes, “I’m not going to […]
A hedge fund goes after a blogger
Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times writes about hedge fund manager David Einhorn’s attempts to find out the name of a Seeking Alpha blogger who disclosed one of his investments. Sorkin writes, “The case could be a watershed for both the reporting of financial news using anonymous sources, and perhaps more important, the […]
How — and why — Bloomberg News gets more women into its coverage
Lisa Kassenaar is editor-at-large, global women’s coverage, for Bloomberg News. As editor-at-large in charge of global women’s coverage, Kassenaar is leading the news and information company’s fresh look at how its newswire, two magazines, and TV and radio operations explain the role of women in the global economy. More than 2000 journalists are taking part, […]
WSJ enters native advertising field
The Wall Street Journal is jumping on the native ad bandwagon with the launch of a new content division, WSJ. Custom Studios, reports Lucia Moses of Adweek. Moses writes, “The division will offer the Journal’s first native ad product, Narratives, which will first appear March 11 with a three-month-long campaign for Brocade. “However, Robin Riddle, […]
Naked Capitalism blogger files public records lawsuit against Calpers
Susan Webber, who operates the Naked Capitalism blog about financial and economics news writing under the pseudonym Yves Smith, has filed a lawsuit against the California Public Employees’ Retirement Systems for failing to respond to a public records request. Webber argues that Calpers gave the information she is requesting about its investments and financial performance […]
Reuters climate coverage continues to decline
Reuters’ coverage of climate change issues has continued to decline, according to a report from Denise Robbins of Media Matters for America. Robbins writes, “Former Reporter: “Skeptic” Editor Ingrassia Created A ‘Climate Of Fear’ In The Newsroom. In July 2013, former Reuters Asia climate change correspondent David Fogarty revealed that when Paul Ingrassia — a self-identified ‘climate change […]
Realtor selling biz editor’s home advertises on biz section front
Jim Romenesko reports that Miami Herald business editor Jane Wooldridge‘s home is being sold by a Realtor who advertises on the front page of the paper’s business section. The ad in Monday’s paper includes a photo of Wooldridge’s home. Romenesko asked the paper for a response and received the following from managing editor Rick Hirsch: […]
Frankie Flack: Screw biz journalists, I love embargoes
If there’s one things business reporters seem to hate about my kind, it’s the embargo: an agreement to receive information, but sit on it until a specific time. TechCrunch has waged a gleeful war on the practice, and even the august Wall Street Journal doesn’t like to play the embargo game. So if both ends of […]
Business Wire to stop serving high-frequency traders
Business Wire, a company that publishes and distributes corporate earnings and other news releases, will stop providing its service directly to high-frequency trading firms, reports Steve Rothwell of the Associated Press. Rothwell writes, “The decision comes after an article in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month highlighted the advantage that high-frequency trading firms had […]
Einhorn wants Seeking Alpha to disclose name of writer
Mark Melin of ValueWalk reports about how money manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is threatening legal action against Seeking Alpha because one of its writers posted private information about one of Einhorn’s investments. Melin writes, “In the court documents published by ValueWalk, Einhorn claims that publishing the hedge fund’s holdings of Micron securities during […]
