An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022
 | An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalismThat “rapper” accused of billions in crypto fraud was also a Forbes contributor. Is it finally time to move past the contributor network? By Joshua Benton. |
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What We’re Reading
Press Gazette / Andrew Kersley
The BBC is launching a new live journalism team →
“There's been a massive restructuring at BBC News. And in the process of doing that, we wanted to put live news as a specific team … Previously, it was just done by the digital news team and it would depend on who was available on any given day. We want to make this a much more systematic, deliberate part of operations.”
Marco Rubio and Tim Kaine
Rubio and Kaine urge State Department to address ongoing violence against journalists in Mexico →
“It has become increasingly clear that current efforts to protect journalists are inadequate and that the U.S. must work alongside Mexico to develop a more comprehensive plan to reduce the violence that destabilizes Mexico and specifically impacts journalists.”
Military Reporters & Editors Assoc.
Military Reporters & Editors Association calls for the resumption of journalists embedding with troops →
“The Military Reporters & Editors Association is formally asking the Defense Department to allow journalists to embed with the U.S. troops that have been selected to deploy to NATO's eastern flank.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare
What did the pandemic do to the careers of journalists of color? →
“For an industry that prizes transparency, we're experts at asking for it and rotten at actually offering it.”
The New York Times / Marc Tracy
Local papers find hints of success with online subscriptions →
“The Los Angeles Times has more than doubled digital subscriptions in the past two years, to 450,000. The Boston Globe, which says it makes enough digital revenue to support its newsroom, increased its digital subscribers in the last two and a half years to 226,000 from 100,000, according to figures provided by the newspaper, which John W. Henry bought from The New York Times Company in 2013. The Philadelphia Inquirer's digital-only subscriptions grew 28 percent last year, to north of 60,000.”
Local News Initiative / Greg Burns
90% of journalists in a recent Medill survey said social media makes the “mix of news” worse →
“Among the findings, 90.7% of respondents said the role social media companies play in delivering the news results is a worse mix of news, while 86.5% said social media companies have too much control over the mix of news people see.” Respondents /localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2022/02/01/medill-media-survey-methodology/index.html">were mostly white with a mean age of 46.6.
BuzzFeed News / Sarah Emerson
Woman accused of $4.5 billion crypto laundering scheme also wrote a bunch of stuff for Forbes and Inc. →
“On Twitter, Morgan allegedly identified herself as a ‘serial entrepreneur,’ ‘surreal artist,’ ‘rapper,’ and ‘also Forbes writer.’ Indeed, a Forbes contributor page for Heather R Morgan lists numerous posts, including a story titled ‘Experts Share Tips to Protect Your Business From Cybercriminals.’ Morgan also appears to have written for Inc.”
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