Bloomberg gets hearing to contest judge’s order
Bloomberg LP will get an opportunity to contest a U.S. judge’s order requiring more than 100 people to disclose if they shared confidential information with the media company’s reporters about the bankruptcy of Molycorp Inc. Jim Christie of Reuters writes, “U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Sontchi said during a telephone hearing on Wednesday that he erred a […]
Bloomberg’s Micklethwait objects to judge’s ruling
A Delaware bankruptcy judge’s order demanding that more than 100 individuals in a case before him disclose all their contacts with any Bloomberg reporters in the last 60 days is overly broad and interferes with reporters’ First Amendment freedoms, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press argued in a letter to the judge on behalf of a media […]
Bloomberg’s Liu wants to hear about people’s careers
Kelsey Sutton of Politico interviewed Bloomberg Television’s Betty Liu about her podcast where she interviews executives. Here is an excerpt: POLITICO: At the end of October, you launched Radiate, a weekly podcast that features intimate conversations with accomplished leaders, entrepreneurs and CEOs (http://bit.ly/1SSo7N5). Where did the idea for this podcast come from? LIU: The idea came […]
Five ways biz reporters can find news from the SEC
Bill Hankes of Sqoop, the service used by business journalists to help them find news in public records, writes about five ways that reporters can find news from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Here’s one: 2. Find hidden gems with full-text search Similarly, the SEC provides a far more robust full-text search than EDGAR offers. Not […]
Three Bloomberg M&A reporters explain how they break stories
Sources for mergers and acquisition stories talk to reporters because of vanity, an interest in sharing information, revenge and wanting the reporter to get the story correct, according to three Bloomberg News M&A reporters. “Sources run a full spectrum from those who don’t talk to M&A reporters because they know better to people who are […]
Business journalists and how they use Twitter
Journalists love Twitter. More than half of surveyed journalists agreed Twitter is their go-to tool for publicizing their work and engaging their readers, according to an informal survey of 70 journalists conducted by Talking Biz News. When it comes to sourcing their stories, the majority of journalists still turn to Twitter, but popular networking site […]
WSJ’s Benoit is Talking Biz News’ Business Journalist of the Year
If Wall Street Journal reporter David Benoit is the future of business journalism, then the business journalism is in good shape. Benoit, who took over the shareholder activist beat at The Journal two years ago, has had a strong year. Within the past month, he broke the news about the DuPont-Dow Chemical deal, and he then followed […]
How a non-profit journalism website investigates companies
Katrina Brooker of LinkedIn interviewed Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation founder Roddy Boyd about his work digging into companies and finding stories. Here is an excerpt: Do you really consider yourself the only reporter doing financial fraud investigations? There is not really anybody else dedicated to investigating all corporate, all financial fraud journalistically as a living — […]
How AP stories are changing how retailers purchase fish and shrimp
A team of four Associated Press reporters disclosed earlier this week that grocery stores and restaurants across the world, including Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, are selling shrimp peeled by slaves. That story has prompted exporters and retailers to promise changes this week in the system of exporting and purchasing fish. The story, by Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, […]
How Theranos misled a Fortune reporter
Roger Parloff, a Fortune reporter who wrote a June 2014 cover story on Theranos and founder Elizabeth Holmes, writes Thursday about how the company misled him on the number of blood tests it was performing without a syringe. Parloff writes, “As much as I’d like to say that Holmes lied to me, I don’t think […]
