NewsBios

NewsBios ^[1]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 journalists.

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)^[2] and the 30 Under 30 list of successful young business journalists.

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.

Notes

1. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_n27372386
2. ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-18-1999/0001005310&EDATE=

External links

• Black Enterprise Staffer Honored by NewsBios/TJFR Grop
• Julia Boorstin Receives NewsBios/TJFR Group Honor
• CNET Journalists Win NewsBios/TJFR Group Award