IS CNBC depriving viewers?
Warner Todd Huston writes about the recent dsisclosure that CNBC‘s policy is to ban sources who appear on the air from appearing on other networks. Huston writes, “So, if CNBC is purposefully excluding newsmakers that are set to appear at other venues, does CNBC expect those newsmakers to keep themselves exclusive to CNBC? Really? In […]
Business journalism ethics, or the lack thereof, in Hong Kong
Business journalists in Hong Kong understand potential conflicts of interest, yet some still trade in stocks of companies that they cover, according to new research from the London School of Economics. “The most striking finding is that almost half of the 12 journalists interviewed, five respondents, openly said that they or close relatives actively traded […]
Fake sources in real estate stories
A Vancouver real estate marketing company is apologizing for having two employees pose as prospective home buyers in televised newscasts on a supposed spike in sales around the Lunar New Year. Andrea Woo of The Globe and Mail writes, “The two young women – presented as house-hunting sisters whose parents would be in town from […]
A blogger who reviews his company’s products
Jordan Crook of TechCrunch writes Monday about how a Nokia blogger, Adam Fraser, has reviewed the new Nokia phone and only had nice things to say about the product. Crook writes, “He just so happens to be a ‘Writer and Reporter at Nokia Conversations Blog,’ who ‘has owned more Nokia handsets than he can count’ […]
Consumer Electronics Association cuts ties with CNET
The Consumer Electronics Association cut its ties with CNET on Thursday, two weeks after CNET’s parent company, the CBS Corporation, prohibited the website’s editors from giving an award to an innovative product it deemed illegal. Brian Stelter of The New York Times writes, “The association’s announcement was a stern rebuke to CNET, a longtime partner […]
How CBS abandoned objectivity with CNET
Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, takes aim at CBS Corp.’s lack of objectivity in dealing with the recent decision to prevent its subsidiary, tech news site CNET, from writing about Dish and its products due to litigation with the company. Shapiro writes, “First, it destroys two reputations in a single action. […]
Lodging, SXSW and journalism ethics
This was posted by Business Insider’s Allyson Shontell, a senior reporter, earlier on Tuesday. As Business Insider founder and editor Henry Blodget notes, the Twitter post was in jest. “Alyson was poking fun at a writer for another publication who recently offered to trade a post for a massage,” said Blodget in an email to […]
Biz media investigated in insider trading probe
Authorities have conducted a wide-ranging investigation into whether media companies facilitated insider trading on Wall Street by prematurely releasing market-moving government data, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Brody Mullins and Devlin Barrett write, “The federal investigation examined whether news organizations used high-speed transmission systems to give some investors access to economic data a […]
Arrington: Why haven’t more CNET journalists quit?
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wants to know why more journalists haven’t quit tech news site CNET in the wake of parent company CBS Corp. decreeing it couldn’t give an award to a company that CBS was litigating. Arrington writes, “What I don’t get is why CNET staffers have stuck around. They’re the ones who are […]
Business journalism and plagiarism
Kathy English, the ombudsman at the Toronto Star, writes about how the paper investigated allegations of plagiarism against one of its business reporters. English writes, “Reporter Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew apologized immediately for her ‘poor judgment’ in lifting words from the Globe. This was a significant mistake and managing editor Jane Davenport launched a review of […]
