Mr. Denby also became a devotee of George Gilder, the publisher of a newsletter whose wildly optimistic predictions about the telecommunications boom left his followers with shrunken portfolios.
"It really is a sharp departure for Stern," said Tom Taylor, editor of Inside Radio, an industry newsletter whose corporate parent is Clear Channel Communications.
An article in Business Day yesterday about a plan by Google to add a search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers misstated the name of an online newsletter whose editor commented on the new service.
An article on Sunday about companies that encourage employees to put 401(k) money into their own stock, and about financial planners' recommendations to diversify portfolios, misstated the name of a newsletter whose editor, Louis Berney, recommended that plans combat confusion by offering fewer options.
As the summer of 2005 fades into fall, we thought it would be a good time to turn to the investment newsletter editors whose picks have performed well in the past year to see what piques their interests now.
Other publishers who say their e-mail addresses have been compromised include Anne Holland, who publishes a newsletter called MarketingSherpa, and Ralph Wilson, whose newsletters include Web Marketing Today and Doctor Ebiz.
The tragedy is that this epidemic could have been nipped in the bud months ago if governments had paid heed to organisations such as Medecins sans Frontières whose newsletters portrayed the horror of the situation in unemotional terms.
Mr. Myers, whose newsletters include The Myers Report, estimated the average decline in cost per thousand viewers for cable at 15percentt and "starting at minus 20percentt" in the upfront market for syndicated shows, which is proceeding even more slowly than the upfront market for cable.
She said she knew of some 20 other SparkLIST customers, including one public media company, whose newsletter recipients have been receiving spam.
