Remember the hedge fund run by a well known short seller who now also owns a media company? 

He's looking for "journalists"

An example of why you have to be very careful of where you get your information. 

"Bronte Capital’s John Hempton, one of Australia’s best-known short sellers, is hunting for journalists to join his investment team and sharpen its dirt file, steering the hedge fund’s performance back to form after the second-worst losing streak in its history.

Mr Hempton, who put his struggling short-selling strategy under review late last year, posted a draft job advertisement in his latest investor letter targeted at former and current investigative journalists harbouring hedge fund ambitions.

Hunterbrook, a novel combination of hedge fund and news provider, launched in the US last year to some cynicism after raising $US100 million. 

The business was billed as a new model to support independent journalism by short selling suspect companies. 

Mr Hempton told The Australian Financial Review at the time that the strategy would be unlikely to work in Australia because of the burden of local defamation law, which was unlike the first amendment protections available in the US.

Research done for Bronte would not be aired for an audience. Bronte’s next hire would be tasked with sifting through the fund’s database of hundreds of “suspect people” whom Mr Hempton monitors to identify profitable shorting opportunities.

“This has worked well – but as we have expanded the database of bad people we have found (and lost money on) several false positive indicators,” he said. 

"We will want [the candidate] to help estimate how suspect some people really are – so we can calibrate our database.”