{"id":4497,"date":"2012-06-04T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2012-12-29T02:12:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T07:12:15","slug":"could-the-new-york-times-help-play-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/could-the-new-york-times-help-play-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Could The New York Times Help Play The Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/053112_1553_CouldTheNew1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the New York Times published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/22\/business\/at-wal-mart-in-mexico-a-bribe-inquiry-silenced.html?hp\">expos\u00e9<\/a> that wiped $12 billion out of Wal-Mart&#8217;s book-value Felix Salmon wondered if there was a way for the New York Times to make money from this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The newspaper could offer a service where big-name hedge funds could pay to get early access to news stories, letting them take advantage of stories that can move the market.<\/li>\n<li>This is ethical. Other news organizations such as Reuters gives early access to well-paying customers.<\/li>\n<li>One problem is that whistle-blowers could potentially be persecuted as inside-traders if newspapers were to engage in such a practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including the multitude of people that help write an article, why journalism is increasingly being done by people who have an interest in the stories they&#8217;re writing, and how such a process would work operationally, click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2012\/04\/24\/could-the-nyt-make-money-from-its-scoops\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2012\/04\/24\/could-the-nyt-make-money-from-its-scoops\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/04\/27\/a-new-revenue-source-for-journalism\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the New York Times published an expos\u00e9 that wiped $12 billion out of Wal-Mart&#8217;s book-value Felix Salmon wondered if there was a way for the New York Times to make money from this: The newspaper could offer a service where big-name hedge funds could pay to get early access to news stories, letting them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/053112_1553_CouldTheNew1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}