Todd writes, “Hard-working business reporter Jeff Kiger said the people who most often ask to ‘look things over first’ are business owners. Most, he said, have only dealt with the newspaper to place ads, and there they get to review ads. But a story is not an advertisement, and what you say is what we write.
“Like Kiger, I agree that average folks who don’t deal with the media can be cut a little slack. If they say something inflammatory we might give them half a chance to walk that back.
“But, and I agree with Kiger on this, politicians and CEOs of big companies get no slack because they ought to know better.”
Read more here.
Ken Brown of The Wall Street Journal is leaving the news organization. He is an…
Dow Jones News Fund President Brent W. Jones announced at the nonprofit journalism training organization’s…
Jillian Ward, managing editor for U.S. technology at Bloomberg News, sent the following note to…
Rick Berke, a co-founded and executive editor of STAT News, writes about the importance of…
Thomas Maxwell has joined Gizmodo as a tech reporter. He previously was at Business Insider covering…
Banking Times has acquired the domain name "The New Fiver" for an undisclosed amount, aiming…