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How to tell if a CEO is lying to you
Kyle Stock of The Wall Street Journal reports about some Stanford University research that provides clues to whether a CEO is lying while speaking. Stock writes, “A pair of professors at Stanford recently tried to do just that. The team built a model that tries to flush out executive lies, using psychological and linguistic studies […]
Remembering auto writer Jerry Flint
Outgoing Forbes editor William Baldwin writes Monday about longtime Forbes auto writer Jerry Flint, who died this weekend at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke. Baldwin writes, “One of his notions was that journalists, at least the sort that ruled the newsrooms of big newspapers a few decades ago, were too full of […]
Reporting tactics 101: Gasparino chases Treasury secretary
Fox Business Network’s Charles Gasparino tried to get an interview with Treasury secretary Tim Geithner as he was leaving the News Corp. building on Monday, and he later showed footage of his attempt on the air with anchor Liz Claman. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
New site aims to connect companies with journalists
Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times writes about NewsBasis, a new site launching Monday that aims to connect companies and industry organizations with journalists writing articles in which they may want to be involved in. Miller writes, “On NewsBasis, sources can also add a footnote to articles across the Web, so when reporters […]
Covering your employer
Michael Lev, the assistant managing editor of business at the Chicago Tribune, writes about how the business desk covers its paper’s parent company, the Tribune Co. Lev writes, “First of all, no one outside the newsroom, including any executive on any other floor of Tribune Tower, ever has access to our stories before publication, or […]
A business journalist on PR
Longtime business journalist James Flanigan reflects on good and bad relationships he’s had with PR people. Flanigan writes, “I’ll begin with a public relations man who did his job well and helped me at the same time. I broke in as a business reporter with the New York Herald Tribune, assigned to cover the oil, […]
Business news on the radio
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Al Mayers is the general manager for Bloomberg Radio, the 24-hour, digital all-news business radio station. Bloomberg Radio recently launched the new “Bloomberg Businessweek Radio” show, airing Friday evenings at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 8 a.m. on WBBR 1130 AM in New York as well as Sirius XM across the […]
Bad PR mistakes, according to a longtime business journalist
Donna Fenn, who has been a business journalist for more than 20 years, writes on BNET about the worst public relations mistakes she has encountered. Here are a couple: Pitching off-topic. Say I put the word out on HARO (Help a Reporter Out, which we all love), or on Facebook or Twitter that I’m searching […]
Events and motivations in reporting
CNBC.com managing editor Allen Wastler warns business journalists against linking events with motivations when reporting. Wastler writes, “Case in point: Suggestions that BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward is being pulled out of day-to-day Gulf spill operations as punishment for poor performance before Congress yesterday and in the Gulf situation in general. “These reports trace to […]
