Florida paper to print chamber content
The Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida will publish content from the local chamber of commerce, according to a story on the paper’s website. The story states, “The joint effort was announced in September by Chamber chairman Garry Lubi and Daytona Beach News-Journal publisher Ron Wallace. “‘The Voice’ will be available as a four-page pullout section […]
Utility refuses to talk to newspaper
Roger Chesley of The Virginian-Pilot reports how the state’s largest utility, Dominion Virginia Power, has been refusing to talk to the paper’s reporters who cover the company. Chesley writes, “I’ve been told, privately, that Dominion has been miffed The Pilot doesn’t report more about ‘PR events,’ such as when Dominion employees volunteer in the community. […]
How news content produced by advertisers is good for business
Forbes chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin writes about the business magazine’s BrandVoice, which allows companies to provide content for its website. Dvorkin writes, “Two years ago, we launched AdVoice, renamed BrandVoice last week, as a way for brands to use the same publishing tools I do to create, curate and distribute their expert content in […]
CEO threatens New Yorker, business journalist
Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh has sent a letter to New Yorker asking that an article about his management style be removed from its website and retracted in print. Alex Ben Brock of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “The Hollywood Reporter has obtained a letter from Relativity and Kavanaugh lawyer Carol Genis to New Yorker editor […]
Iran jury finds Reuters guilty
An Iranian jury voted on Sunday to convict the Reuters news organization over a video script that contained an error, Iran’s Press TV reported. A Reuters story states, “Reuters, the news arm of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information group, corrected the story after the martial arts club where the video was filmed made […]
Forbes giving advertisers an editorial voice
Rob O’Regan, the editor of emediavitals.com, writes about how Forbes magazine is allowing advertisers to publish content on its website. O’Regan writes, “Forbes has adopted the latter strategy with its 2-year-old AdVoice program. AdVoice allows marketers to publish blog posts directly to Forbes.com, where they compete for eyeballs with all other staff-written and third-party content. […]
Some Quartz content to come from advertisers
Lucia Moses of Adweek reports that some of the content that will appear on the new business news site Quartz, launching later this month, will come from launch sponsors Boeing, Cadillac, Credit Suisse and Chevron. Moses writes, “Quartz has been talking up the atypical approach it’s taking to advertising as well as news coverage; it’s […]
Yale student paper says fired WSJ intern may have changed quotes
An investigation by the Yale Daily News has discovered that former Wall Street Journal intern Liane Membis, who was fired this summer from the business newspaper for making up sources, may have changed quotes in stories while an undergraduate. Max de La Bruyère of the paper writes, “After fact-checking her articles and contacting as many […]
The new Internet darlings? Repent, ye business journalists
Recent initial public offerings from technology companies such as Facebook Inc., Groupon Inc. and game-maker Zynga Inc. have all disappointed long-term investors in the stocks. Forbes outlined the troubles the three are having in an Aug. 21 story that argued that the tech firms should have considered going public earlier. They’re not alone. The business […]
Why biz journalists yawned at the Gawker scoop of Bain documents
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of TheDeal.com, writes about why business journalists were not excited when Gawker posted documents from Bain & Co. related to presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Kantrow writes, “Their nonchalance — and Primack’s admission that he possessed the same documents but didn’t think they were newsworthy — got some of their colleagues […]
