These are the ones that I know about, but there are more: JED Capital of Chicago used to be tied to Need to Know News (NTKN) Vigilant Global (formerly Vigilant Futures) of Montreal started the fake news agency CEP News to gain access to lock-ups. CEP News was subsequently folded, but its marketing director, Paula [...]
Journalism – Past articles, investigative reporting and more
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This post is delayed. Please check back later. Update 10:30 April 17: The promised audio of Monday’s call, which was supposed to be posted to the DOL website yesterday, is still not available. The DOL linked it earlier, but the recording turned out to be muzak and now it’s disappeared. Honestly, if they can’t upload [...]
Hmm, this sounds like the end of an era: The U.S. Department of Labor announced on Wednesday it plans to tighten its rules for the media to prevent leaks of the monthly jobs numbers. The department will supply standard equipment to journalists in press “lock-ups” and will not allow company-owned computers or phones to be [...]
CNBC reports: The federal government routinely churns out new data that can cause huge swings in individual stock prices and sometimes entire markets, including commodity trends, FDA drug approvals, and, perhaps most importantly, the monthly jobs report from the Department of Labor. The release of that figure on the first Friday of each month can [...]
I recently did a Google search to see how the Scottish Terrier and Dog News was ranking for the term Scottish Terrier and noticed something I hadn’t before. A photo of Rasmus (left, top) that I had published on my blog almost four years ago showed up on Picasa even though I had never put [...]
Vigilant Futures, the secretive trading firm that funded Canadian Economic Press (CEP News) has changed its name to Vigilant Global. Although Vigilant Futures founder Arvind Ramanathan confirmed in an interview with me that his company had funded CEP News, the now defunct news agency had always refused to say who its funders were. CEP News [...]
Newspapers need to start their own live radio shows As newspapers everywhere fool around with video, Twitter and Facebook, they’re ignoring the one medium that really makes sense for them — radio. This is especially strange given that the only news media habit the internet doesn’t appear to have changed is radio listening. News junkies [...]
Nota Investments LLC has a location in Oakland, CA. Active officers include Marco Gomez and Isaiah Gonzalez. Nota Investments LLC filed as a Domestic on Monday, July 20, 2009 in the state of California and is currently active. Marco Gomez serves as the registered agent for this organization. The company’s line of business includes Service [...]
Midas Four Ventures, LLC has a location in San Francisco, CA. Active officers include Marco Gomez, Leslie Hedman and Daniel C McDonald. Midas Four Ventures, LLC filed as a Domestic on Thursday, September 18, 2008 in the state of California and is currently active. Edward J Donnelly serves as the registered agent for this organization. [...]
Search for a specific person on LinkedIn and you can see interesting related searches It’s funny that Facebook is always getting in hot water over privacy issues when you can learn so much from LinkedIn, which magically seems to escape criticism. I’ve noticed, however, that a lot of people have recently been taking their LinkedIn [...]
