Tag Archives: Thomson Reuters

Reuters distributes press releases in editorial feed

IN AN unconventional move that blurs the lines between journalism and public relations, Reuters is now distributing press releases of its parent company’s corporate clients in its editorial feed to Yahoo! Finance, the world’s most popular investing website. The development appears to run counter to the Reuters Trust Principles, a set of standards designed to [...]

US investor relations services giants embrace web disclosure

THOMSON REUTERS and Nasdaq OMX, the two US investor relations services giants, are set to launch new one-stop web disclosure tools that give companies greater choice and direct control over how they meet their regulatory obligations and communicate with investors online. The moves, which are a logical response to new web technologies, regulatory changes, and [...]

Los Angeles Media Members Give Tips on Pitching to LA Communicators

Business Wire LA hosted a “Meet the Media” breakfast and panel discussion titled “How to Effectively Communicate Your Message” on Thursday, April 15. Local media members shared tips on effectively pitching news media and strategies for forming relationships with media and answered questions from the audience of LA area communicators. Noemi Pollack (far R), Founder [...]

Reuters’ conflicted reporting on Google’s earnings release practices

REUTERS, the news division of information services giant Thomson Reuters, has published an ill-informed, inaccurate and one-sided article about Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement that it will use its website rather than paid PR wires to distribute its financial results. I predicted this would happen in the post I wrote immediately after Google made its [...]

Upcoming Business Wire Events – March 29 Edition

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Thomson Reuters’ uncomfortable IR website findings

THE Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) in the United States and Thomson Reuters released a report last week containing an interesting data point about how analysts and portfolio managers view the usefulness of corporate investor relations websit…

BGC proves notice-and-access releases work

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, yesterday announced its earnings using the notice-and-access news release method we have been advocating for several years.
Despite heated hand-waving by one b…

Why are IROs ignoring 1.5 million potential investors?

RECENTLY in a blog post here and in a discussion in the Investor Relations Executives Group on LinkedIn, I suggested that the time has come for investor relations departments to open up their earnings calls to finance bloggers.
My objective in doing th…

Why I’m nervous for BGC and its next earnings release

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider.
On M…