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FT publishes story on fake BlackRock CEO letter

The Financial Times wrote a story about a fake annual letter to shareholders from Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, reports Meghan Morris of Business Insider.

Morris writes, “Business media outlets, including the Financial Times, ran stories early on Wednesday with the big news.

“The letter, however, was fake.

“A BlackRock spokesman pointed to the company’s official Twitter account: ‘Don’t be fooled by imitations…Larry’s real CEO letter coming soon,’ the firm tweeted on Wednesday.

“Hours after running the original story – which was deleted – the Financial Times published a piece about the fake letter. An Financial Times spokeswoman declined further comment.”

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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.