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Gawker: New York Times , Newsweek Pick Up the Junketeer Habit [Journalismism]
Gawker: New York Times , Newsweek Pick Up the Junketeer Habit [Journalismism]
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Whistleblower reignites #travel #writing swag furor: http://tinyurl.com/yhgzt43 Just as America's FTC demands #blog freebie-disclosure. 20 days ago |
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Aw man, I love Mike Albo :( http://bit.ly/pttdg 27 days ago |
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FTC targets bloggers, but where are the rules for traditional media? http://tinyurl.com/yhgzt43 28 days ago |
New York Times , Newsweek Pick Up the Junketeer Habit [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... . But, as Jeff Bercovici at Daily Finance reports, they did attend the annual travel junket put on by the website Thrillist. Now their respective publications are having to address their freebie: ...
New York Times , Newsweek Pick Up the Junketeer Habit [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... . But, as Jeff Bercovici at Daily Finance reports , they did attend the annual travel junket put on by the website Thrillist. Now their respective publications are having to address their freebie: "We will be reimbursing Thrillist for the trip," a [ Newsweek ] spokesman says... after learning that one of [the magazine's] reporters... had gone on the junket."...A Times spokeswoman said Albo "is a freelancer and was not on assignment for The Times , which he made clear to the organizers of the trip. So we do not see any violation of our rules." The Times might not see any ...
New York Times Travel Writer Broke These Travel Writer Rules With Junket [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... violated the newspaper's freelancer guidelines, or at least the ones we've seen. And now the Times has reversed its defense of the trip, saying it has "concerns." Albo took a free, all expenses paid trip to Jamaica last weekend, sponsored by Thrillist and JetBlue. The Times defended the trip to Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com , saying Albo is merely a freelancer, and wasn't on assignment. But the newspaper is much more stern about such junkets in the policies for outside contributors we reviewed. A tipster forwarded the policies along, saying the Times makes all ...
Times Travel Writer Broke These Travel Writer Rules With Junket [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... Albo took a free, all expenses paid trip to Jamaica last weekend, sponsored by Thrillist and JetBlue. The Times defended the trip to Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com, saying Albo is merely a freelancer, and wasn't on assignment. ...
Extra, Extra
Gothamist —
... looks at mayoral candidate Bill Thompson's work with the Board of Education.
The Nets are pimping out Devin Harris—"The New Jersey Nets are renting him and some of the team's other players out by the hour to help sell season tickets in a tough economy. For $25,000, fans get four courtside seats to 10 games, food and drinks and a 60-minute house call from their favorite star under a new program dubbed 'Your Ticket to a Player.'"
Newsweek will reimburse Thrillist for its reporter travel during a junket to Jamaica.
Oopsy: MSNBC's ...
Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the Times Also Misunderstood [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... The newspaper last week said "we do not see any violation of our rules" in Albo taking a free vacation sponsored by the consumer publication Thrillist and the airline JetBlue. But since providing that statement to Daily Finance's Jeff Bercovici, the Times had second thoughts, launched an investigation and has now ...
New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... for taking a free junket to Jamaica, in violation of ethics policies. Which might make sense, if the Times itself hadn't specifically cleared him of violating ethics policies. The newspaper last week said "we do not see any violation of our rules" in Albo taking a free vacation sponsored by the consumer publication Thrillist and the airline JetBlue. But since providing that statement to Daily Finance's Jeff Bercovici , the Times had second thoughts, launched an investigation and has now ...
