New by me —> A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook (@hntrbrkmedia) is a combination newsroom/hedge fund (!!!) that wants to investigate corporations — and make bank shorting their stock before publication. (Their first story is really good!) niemanlab.org/2024/04/a-new-…
@jbenton @hntrbrkmedia How is this different from Hindenburg and those guys?
@jbenton @hntrbrkmedia Intriguing but I don’t get how they do this without material nonpublic info. Not saying it’s impossible, just haven’t seen it clearly explained somewhere!
@jbenton @hntrbrkmedia Wow. @jbenton thanks for this. Catchy name needed. “cashctivist journalism” ? other suggestions?
@jbenton @hntrbrkmedia Such an interesting situation. Thanks for taking time on this!
@jbenton @hntrbrkmedia Thanks for the kind words about the story, @jbenton.
@jbenton @hntrbrkmedia Combines corporate greed with questionable journalism ethics and kind of missing the point all together? Count me out (and once again thinking about how much good local journalism you could fund with that $10 million).