Lodging, SXSW and journalism ethics

This was posted by Business Insider’s Allyson Shontell, a senior reporter, earlier on Tuesday.

As Business Insider founder and editor Henry Blodget notes, the Twitter post was in jest.

“Alyson was poking fun at a writer for another publication who recently offered to trade a post for a massage,” said Blodget in an email to Talking Biz News. “We do not allow writers to accept gifts in exchange for posts.”

The other journalist is Sam Biddle of Gizmodo.

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.