How the WSJ is detecting fake video content
Francesco Marconi and Till Daldrup of The Wall Street Journal write for The Nieman Lab about how the newspaper is using technology to determine fake video content. Marconi and Daldrup write, “If someone has sent in suspicious footage, a good first step is to try to contact the source. How did that person obtain it? Where and when […]
A tech reporter who uses old-fashioned reporting methods
Jack Nicas, who covers Apple for the New York Times, talks about some of his reporting methods on the beat. Here is an excerpt: I’m also a prolific screenshotter. The internet is an ephemeral place, so when I see something online for a story, I make sure to capture it immediately. The technique has been […]
Biz journalists want to write exclusive stories, not just disseminate: Study
Business journalists prefer to write articles with exclusive content that comes from sources inside companies rather than simply disseminating information that companies provide to everyone, according to research released this week. Four business school professors — Andrew C. Call, Scott A. Emett and Eldar Maksymov of Arizona State University and Nathan Y. Sharp of Texas […]
How Theranos threatened some of the WSJ’s sources
Gabriel Penna of Chief Executive interviewed Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou about his coverage of blood testing company Theranos and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes. Here is an excerpt: You did a lot of reporting and writing on this story before “Bad Blood” came out. At what point did you think it would be a […]
How a Forbes reporter calculates Trump’s wealth
Charlie Herman of WNYC interviewed Forbes reporter Dan Alexander about the business magazine’s reporting tactics used to determine President Donald Trump’s wealth. Forbes estimates that Trump’s net worth is $3.1 billion, down from $4.5 billion it estimates in 2015. The magazine drew on interviews with nearly 200 of the president’s colleagues, partners and industry observers […]
Primack of Axios explains the world of business reporting
Dan Primack, the business editor at Axios, talked with the “Teach me How to Money” podcast about his career in business news. Primack said he got into journalism in 1999 after running a community newspaper in Boston. “I needed a job to pay for the ridiculously expensive apartment in Midtown,” said Primack. He grabbed a […]
How companies treat elderly workers is a ProPublica beat
Richard Eisenberg of Forbes.com interviewed ProPublic contributing reporter Peter Gosselin about his beat covering how companies are treating elderly workers. Here is an excerpt: How did the IBM story come about? I was talking to the young woman who became my co-author on the project, an engagement reporter at ProPublica named Ariana Tobin. When I […]
The business media and its nostalgia for the crisis
Aaron Timms of The Week writes about the nostalgia for the economic crisis that the business news media exhibited during its 10-year anniversary. Timms writes, “The 10th anniversary of the financial crisis has arrived with the predictable, month-long blizzard of retrospectives and commemorations in the business media. These segments have dutifully checked off all the […]
How Reuters uses drones to help tell stories
Lauren Young of Reuters writes about how the news service uses drones to tell stories after one of its photographers used a drone to show glaciers melting in Greenland. Young writes, “Reuters has a detailed policy on drone usage, as outlined in the Reuters Handbook of Journalism (here). That includes steering clear of people, homes, […]
Why business journalism cannot be like sports reporting
Barbara Serra of Al-Jazeera takes a look at the failure of business journalism in covering the economic crisis 10 years ago and the challenges in covering business and finance issues. “‘The media are still very obsessed with the issues that created the last crisis,’ said Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor at the Financial Times, told Serra. […]
