Categories: OLD Media Moves

Investor vows to shake up TheStreet.com

Activist investor Spear Point, after failing to persuade The­Street.com to force Jim Cramer to write exclusively for the website, vowed Tuesday to continue the fight to shake up the company.

Josh Kosman of The New York Post writes, “Ron Bienvenu, CEO of the activist hedge fund, told The Post he is considering a proxy fight for two seats on the board.

“Spear Point wanted TheStreet to force Cramer to choose between his CNBC gig and writing for the site and its newsletters.

“Last month, Cramer, who sits on TheStreet’s board, signed a new four-year contract that will pay him $2.8 million a year, up from his current $1.5 million, according to a regulatory filing.

“TheStreet is also paying him a $3 million signing bonus spread over four years.”

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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.

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  • How many shares do they own? Even if it is a lot, they have no leverage with preferred holders. Don Quixote tilting at windmills and wasting Spear Point investors' month.

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