The biz media fail when they cover a female CEO
Noami Wolf writes for The Globe and Mail of Toronto about how the business media do a bad job when it comes to covering a female chief executive officer such as the new one at General Motors. Wolf writes, “Then there is the ‘Potemkin CEO’ approach, which implicitly assumes that powerful men would never really choose […]
Outsourced content on Forbes is now outsourced
Erin Griffith writes for PandoDaily.com that the contributors who now provide most of the content on Forbes.com are now outsourcing the content they post. Griffith writes, “A curious ‘interview request’ arrived in my inbox today: A Forbes contributor would like to include my opinions in his post about equity crowdfunding. I was flattered for a […]
CNBC apologizes for on-air music with the N word
A CNBC segment on Monday included music right before a commercial that included lyrics with the N word. Hilary Lewis of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “CNBC made a similar, yet possibly worse, blunder when it teased a story about Starbucks with a rap song that included the N-word. Indeed, the offending word played before the […]
How GSK spun the media
Jack Flack writes on his blog about how drug company GlaxoSmithKline used its public relations might to spin a story. Flack writes, “But GSK seemed to get that new plot point last night, when it announced it would curb its sales rep incentives and stop paying doctors to give speeches and attend conferences. The announcement […]
Bloomberg News reaffirms ban on covering itself
Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Matt Winkler has rejected an internal recommendation urging the company to change its policy and start covering itself, reports Peter Elkind of Fortune. Elkind writes, “Covering yourself, of course, is awkward, but every other major media organization does it anyway. It’s standard journalism practice. “At Bloomberg News, the ban on self-coverage has […]
Bloomberg reporters receive bonuses for market moving stories
Julia LaRoche of Business Insider examines the practice at Bloomberg News of paying reporters part of their bonus based on how many market-moving stories they produce. LaRoche writes, “This practice is not widespread in the financial news industry, and journalists we spoke to from other outlets were not aware that it is used at Bloomberg. […]
Bloomberg complained to NYTimes about article
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan writes Sunday that Bloomberg News complained to the paper after it published an article about a story it was working on in China. Sullivan writes, “The Times story, which came from unidentified Bloomberg employees, included denials by Bloomberg news executives, including the editor in chief, Matthew Winkler, that […]
Identity crisis at Bloomberg
Peter Elkind of Fortune magazine examines what is going on at Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Elkind writes, “Winkler’s achievements are considerable. He has built a formidable operation that goes toe to toe with the Journal on breaking business news. Today, with 2,400 journalists operating from 150 bureaus in 73 countries (the […]
What happens after Snowden?
Once again, press freedoms are coming under fire as government officials cite national security as the reasoning for the questioning. The Guardian’s top editor testified before U.K. Parliament about publishing files obtained from Edward Snowden about surveillance. The New York Times lead with a quote about intimidation: The top editor of the British newspaper The […]
Bloomberg reporter barred from Chinese press conference
British authorities have protested to Chinese authorities about a “completely inappropriate” decision to bar a Bloomberg journalist from a press conference in Beijing with David Cameron and his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang, reports Nicholas Watt of The Guardian. Watt writes, “No 10 raised ‘deep concerns’ on two occasions with Chinese officials after the foreign ministry excluded Robert […]
