NewsBios
Encyclopedia
NewsBios is an Internet-based service that provides in-depth, unauthorized bios on the world’s most influential business and financial reporters, editors, writers, producers, anchors, freelancers and other journalist
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Those on the NewsBios Top 100 include: Robert James Thomson
, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal
; Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times
; Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News; Neil Cavuto
, anchor and managing editor of Business News for FOX News Channel; and Allan Sloan
, prize-winning columnist for Fortune Magazine.
NewsBios aggregates and sifts information from more than 60 sources of public information and combines that research with its own analytics and proprietary databases. Among the core advantages of a NewsBio when compared with an authorized profile is the inclusion of biographical information that journalists do not wish the public to know.
This unauthorized information may include previous jobs that did not work out well, complaints pertaining to a journalist’s reporting, personal life developments that may influence a reporter’s news judgment and opinions writers and editors have expressed that reveal a bias.
In addition, because NewsBios has prepared more than 10,000 reporter dossiers over a period of two decades, including those on more than 7,000 active journalists, NewsBios is able to put individual bios in perspective with professional standards in general.
NewsBios was originally founded in 1987 as FaxProfiles in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Its parent company, TJFR Group, Inc., was publisher of the TJFR Business News Reporter, a twice monthly print newsletter that tracked the activities of key financial journalists. The newsletter was published from 1987 to 2002. TJFR stands for The Journalist & Financial Reporting.
Originally, NewsBios content was largely reproduced from issues of the newsletter. Over time, however, NewsBios began to include information obtained from dozens of independent research and news sources.
Beginning in September 2008, NewsBios began offering a selection of its journalist bios as downloadable digital files at an affiliated web site, www.newsbios-on-demand.com.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
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History
Among those journalists whose bios are sold most frequently are members of NewsBios’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential Business and Financial Journalists, winners of its Business News Luminary Awards (NewsBios) and the 30 Under 30 list of successful young business journalists.Those on the NewsBios Top 100 include: Robert James Thomson
Robert James Thomson
Robert James Thomson is an Australian journalist and the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. He is former editor of The Times newspaper in London, England. On 20 May 2008 News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch named Thomson as the paper's new managing editor, succeeding Marcus Brauchli...
, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
; Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
; Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News; Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto
Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.Cavuto also tapes a nightly...
, anchor and managing editor of Business News for FOX News Channel; and Allan Sloan
Allan Sloan
Allan Sloan is an American journalist who is currently senior editor at large at Fortune magazine.Sloan was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College and a 1967 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism...
, prize-winning columnist for Fortune Magazine.
NewsBios aggregates and sifts information from more than 60 sources of public information and combines that research with its own analytics and proprietary databases. Among the core advantages of a NewsBio when compared with an authorized profile is the inclusion of biographical information that journalists do not wish the public to know.
This unauthorized information may include previous jobs that did not work out well, complaints pertaining to a journalist’s reporting, personal life developments that may influence a reporter’s news judgment and opinions writers and editors have expressed that reveal a bias.
In addition, because NewsBios has prepared more than 10,000 reporter dossiers over a period of two decades, including those on more than 7,000 active journalists, NewsBios is able to put individual bios in perspective with professional standards in general.
NewsBios was originally founded in 1987 as FaxProfiles in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Its parent company, TJFR Group, Inc., was publisher of the TJFR Business News Reporter, a twice monthly print newsletter that tracked the activities of key financial journalists. The newsletter was published from 1987 to 2002. TJFR stands for The Journalist & Financial Reporting.
Originally, NewsBios content was largely reproduced from issues of the newsletter. Over time, however, NewsBios began to include information obtained from dozens of independent research and news sources.
Beginning in September 2008, NewsBios began offering a selection of its journalist bios as downloadable digital files at an affiliated web site, www.newsbios-on-demand.com.