Ethics In Journalism
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David Pogue is an incredibly popular technology columnist and one of the most influential gadget gurus in the world. With a column in the New York Times, TV gigs on CNBC, CBS, and PBS, and 1.3 million Twitter followers, Pogue can drive sales of a new gizmo with a few exuberant words or crush a company’s dreams with a thumbs-down on a new product. But Pogue in the past has landed in hot water for failing to disclose potential conflicts of interest. And he has recently attracted some notoriety after he and his wife, whom he’s divorcing, were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct following an alleged scuffle during a domestic dispute that some reports say involved him hitting his wife with an iPhone . And now those two issues are converging: Pogue has been dating Nicki Dugan, a vice president at OutCast Agency, a San Francisco PR firm that represents top tech companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Cisco, Netflix, and Yahoo, since last year.
David Pogue and Nicki Dugan: Is Their Relationship a Conflict of Interest? - The Daily Beast
The AOL-TechCrunch Investing Controversy | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? In a post yesterday, titled “An Update to My Investment Policy,” Arrington made his seemingly cogent arguments that plenty of disclosure made it all “fine,” took one of his typical look-at-me swipes at anyone who dared to question this logic (apparently, we’re crappy “direct” competitors, so we haters have no standing to comment!) and presumably went on his merry investing way. While I was first irked–because it was an appalling show to many of us cranky standards-insisting whiners–I soon realized Arrington had made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been. “TechCrunch is committed to transparency.JEFF JARVIS, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism . He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He consults for media companies and is a public speaker.
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Arianna Huffington's Legitimacy Problem - Yahoo! News
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Techcrunch Editor Discloses Investments, Admits To Conflicts Of Interests - SVW
He said he had refrained from making investments in startups since 2009 because of distracting accusations of conflicts of interest but that he had recently changed that policy (following the sale of Techcrunch to AOL). Over the last several months I have begun investing actively again. We've noted these investments in Shawn Fanning's new startup and in Kevin Rose's new startup . I have also become a limited partner in two venture funds, Benchmark Capital and SoftTech VC. I am considering investments in a few other venture funds and a couple of startups as well, but have nothing further to announce yet. He says he is OK with having financial conflicts of interests in his reporting:
Out And About: Techcrunch Bombshell Draws Lots Of Passionate Critics - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - April 28, 2011 I went out to several parties last night related to the AppNation conference that's in town and spoke to a lot of developers and others about the revelation that Techcrunch editor Mike Arrington is investing in startups and his admission that it will affect his coverage. The unanimous response was that this is not a good move by Mr Arrington and that it will negatively affect how people view Techcrunch and its writers. I was surprised at the passion with which people spoke on this issue.
Wow! Kara Swisher Investigation Forced Arrington To Disclose Investments - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - April 28, 2011 Kara Swisher, editor of "All Things Digital," reported that Techcrunch Editor Mike Arrington disclosed his investments in startups following her questions about the matter, put to AOL senior management. She writes : On Tuesday night around 10 pm (just when I start getting revved up), I wrote a testy email to Arrington's bosses at AOL-Huffington and CEO Tim Armstrong-as well as the Internet portal's sharp PR head, asking for a response about what seemed to me to be a glaring conflict of interest at TechCrunch related to new investment activity by Arrington and the site's coverage of those particular companies he had invested in. And, given the recent and loudly stated goal of promoting quality journalism by Huffington-including the recent dismissal of AOL's Moviefone site editor over what the company considered ethical lapses-it seemed pertinent to ask.Bullshit: Arrington Claims Relationships Are Bigger Problem Than Money - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - April 29, 2011 Mike Arrington, the Techcrunch editor who was forced to disclose his investments by Kara Swisher, Editor of All Things Digital, is trying to prove that relationships are a larger problem than money in reporting. In an interview with Nicholas Carlson, at Business Insider, he says : I read an article this morning. It was saying [all this worry about investments being a conflict of interest is] kind of ridiculous because this is actually one of the smallest conflicts that tech journalists really have, but it's one that people really freak out about.