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Fox Biz’s Gasparino criticized for tweeting Bond Buyer was closing

Fox Business Network reporter Charles Gasparino created a controversy with other business journalists by tweeting that he had heard the Bond Buyer newspaper was closing without calling to confirm if that was true.

The Huffington Post has the entire brouhaha, but summarizes it by stating, “The Fox Business star, formerly of CNBC and The Wall Street Journal, spent much of the day reenacting World War II, playing the role of all of the combatants at once in a sprawling brawl with pretty much everybody else on Twitter. In the process, he managed to belittle and insult writers and editors at news outlets from American Banker all the way to BuzzFeed.”

Here is Gasparino’s original tweet:

But it quickly disintegrated, including this back and forth between Gasparino and Heather Landy, the editor of American Banker magaziune, which is owned by the same company as Bond Buyer:

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.

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anonymous says:
November 4, 2013 at 3:27 pm
to be clear, this was a big deal because of the number of followers Gasparino has. If he wasn't corrected immediately, advertisers and subscribers could have retweeted and taken this note seriously. However, instead of issuing a mea culpa, Gasparino insisted on insulting those that corrected him.