The story behind the NYT’s financial incentives story
Jackie Faye of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism’s “Covering Business” interviewed Louise Story of the New York Times about her investigative series on financial incentives that states give to companies to entice them to move their operations. Here is an excerpt: Faye: Was there an ah-ha moment in your reporting? Story: The biggest thing […]
Deep-dive research that exposes corporate wrongdoings
UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor Andy Bechtel interviewed Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation founder Roddy Boyd about his work as an investigative business journalist. Here is an excerpt: Q. What is SIRF? What is the site trying to achieve? A. The Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation is seeking to use investigative reporting to stand in the gap left […]
Sorkin blows interview with Robbins
Hamilton Nolan of Gawker is critical of the interview that New York Times business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted with self-help guru Anthony Robbins about his investing advice. Nolan writes, “As someone reading (or viewing a video of) an interview of Tony Robbins regarding his new book of money advice, you may have been interested […]
Fox Business story on Super Bowl attendance is misguided
Timothy Burke of Deadspin writes Friday about a Fox Business Network story on low Super Bowl attendance and how its premise is faulty. Burke writes, “Fox Business Network attempted to report on Super Bowl ticket sales today with threats that ‘the NFL is expecting record-low attendance.’ That’s not true, but somehow what reporter Elizabeth MacDonald […]
How CNBC vetted the 17-year-old investor scam
Jana Kasperkevic and Heidi Moore of The Guardian write Saturday about how a 17-year-old high schooler from New York was able to convince some business publications to write about his non-existent trading success without any verification and how CNBC backed away from the story. Kasperkevic and Moore write, “They were 15 minutes late to CNBC, […]
Yes, a PR person and a biz journalist can get along
Roxana Janka, a public relations specialist at The Phelps Group, writes about her working relationship with New York Times advertising reporter Stuart Elliott, who is leaving the paper on Friday. Janka writes, “I once pitched him a story about an impossibly difficult board game that came with the chance to win $1 million. There wasn’t […]
North Carolina governor attacks AP story about his business dealings
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has attacked an Associated Press story that stated he received a six-figure stock payout from an online mortgage broker that is regulated by the state. Craig Jarvis of The (Raleigh) News & Observer writes, “McCrory spent Wednesday denouncing the article, which documented his receipt of early vested restricted stock from […]
Ritholtz: What I would have asked high school “investor”
Barry Ritholtz writes for Bloomberg View about the New York high school student who duped New York magazine reporter Jessica Pressler into believing he had amassed a $72 million portfolio by investing during lunch breaks. Ritholtz writes, “But in thinking about this episode, I started jotting down questions I might’ve asked the whiz-kid trader if […]
We need fewer stenographers in journalism and more investigators
Daniel Harrison writes on Medium about the risks of PR in the financial and political press creating instances of conflict of interests. Harrison writes, “To conclude this brief political and economic examination of the current media landscape, while wire journalists as establishments such as Associated Press and Reuters have their role to play, by and […]
Michael Lewis: Find value, and you find a story
Sam Strimling of The Daily Californian interviewed financial journalist Michael Lewis, the author of “Liar’s Poker” and “The Big Short.” Here is an excerpt: DC: Do you feel like writing about finance changed the way you write about other subjects? ML: In both “The Blind Side” and “Moneyball,” value is at the center of the […]
