Categories: OLD Media Moves

Ingrassia blasts back

Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Wednesday that New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia responded to an unnamed critic within the paper who claimed that he was using reporter’s sources to push a book proposal about the sale of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal.

KellyÂ wrote, “No word on whether New York Times Business Editor Larry Ingrassia has landed a book deal to write about the Dow Jones-News Corp. deal, but he insisted that the proposal had the approval of the upper masthead editors at the paper.

“And he angrily blasted one inside source who claimed Ingrassia could be pilfering some of his sources from Times media reporters who worked on the stories about the merger.

“‘You wrote an allegation – without verifying if it was true – that I took sources from my reporters. I took no sources,’ insisted Ingrassia, who worked at The Wall Street Journal before jumping to the Times. ‘I gave sources.'”

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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.