'NY Times' Limits Pogue's PR Speaking Engagements
New York Times tech columnist David Pogue has been banned from accepting certain speaking engagements with publicists that have been deemed in violation of the newspaper’s ethics policy.
The issue arose last week when Forbes published a story questioning whether Pogue’s participation in a Ragan Communications video seminar called “Pitch Me, Baby!” was in violation of the Times’ ethical code.
Today, the Times’ public editor, Arthur Brisbane writes that, after an “internal review[…] Pogue is barred from making any more speeches like this one to public relations professionals.”
The column cites the following rule in the ethics policy:
“Staff members may not advise individuals or organizations how to deal successfully with the news media (though they may of course explain the paper’s normal workings and steer outsiders to the appropriate Times person)….They
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