A TV biz reporter with an outside business job

Michael Roberts of Denver Westword examines the ethics of a local television station, Channel 9, that has re-hired a business reporter, Gregg Moss, who left last year to accept a corporate job and is being allowed to keep his outside business interests now that he is back on television.

Roberts writes, “Luckily, Dennis was also in touch with Moss, who left the station last May to serve as the chief marketing officer for Alem International Management Inc., a Louisville firm. This wasn’t the first time he’d gone out the door: As we noted in a May 19, 2009 blog, ‘Moss, who’s spent much of his life grappling with debilitating arthritis that’s currently in remission, has left or cut back on his duties twice before, in 2003 and 2006.’ But he was amenable to a return once a few kinks were worked out.

“According to Dennis, Moss wanted to ‘pursue his outside business interests and do television at the same time’ — although, she admits, ‘coming to that conclusion took him and me a little bit of time’ due to the prospect that conflicts of interest might arise. However, she says, ‘most of the work he’ll be doing when he’s not at Channel 9 will be in the nonprofit sector, as well as some work for the company he left — and most of that is not in state and won’t be a conflict.’

“Moss’s schedule isn’t officially fulltime, but close. Dennis says ‘he’ll be writing and anchoring the business segment for the morning news Monday through Friday for six hours.'”

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