PR links to Stockhead questioned + The Pixels are leaking

By Craig Daveson, Phil Sim and Jonas Lopez in Epitome on Thursday, 21st September 2017 at 12:20pm

Business | In the Australian Financial Review this morning, Rear Window’s Myriam Robin raises a bunch of questions with the recently launched small-caps websites Stockhead.

Stockhead has a bunch of people related to the ITJourno community involved. It is edited by David Higgins, who at various times headed up tech coverage at The Australian and Fairfax, while another former tech journo Andrew Ramadge is also one of the key editors. Robin last month revealed that there were possible uncomfortable links between Stockhead and small-cap PR agency M+C Partners, with Jonathan Younger being a director of both and staff like Ramadge and Colin Jacoby crossing over from one to the other.

At the time, Stockhead maintained it operated under the strictest levels of independence an...

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