Seeking Alpha president discusses anonymous writers

Seeking Alpha President David Siegel discusses crowd-sourced stock opinions on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”

He also addressed the issues regarding Seeking Alpha allowing writers to post anonymously on its website.

“Our focus is on building the best possible site we can with a vigorous editorial review,” said Siegel in the interview. He said that Seeking Alpha knows the identities of its anonymous bloggers and that it does a vigorous background check on them.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.