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• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Minimum Wage and the Recession, Facebook’s Numbers, Most Powerless

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Feb 3 2012 06:44 PM

• The Audit

  NYT With More on the SEC’s Soft Touch With Big Banks

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Feb 3 2012 02:41 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Ralston Grills the GOP Gang In advance of Nevada caucus, tough questions for the candidates

  By Jay Jones

  Fri Feb 3 2012 12:50 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day

  By Felix Salmon

  Fri Feb 3 2012 11:15 AM

• Reports

  The American Newsroom

  By Sean Hemmerle

  Fri Feb 3 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Feb 3 2012 12:29 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  The WSJ’s Sony Story Is a Page-One Dud

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Feb 2 2012 07:21 PM

• Page Views

  The Literary Roots of the Gay Revolution Reviewing Christopher Bram’s Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

  By Jordan Michael Smith

  Thu Feb 2 2012 03:48 PM

• Campaign Desk

  What Mitt Really Believes About Entitlements Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Thu Feb 2 2012 12:52 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Rooting for the Race Journalists are suddenly eager to admit the media is biased in favor of an extended campaign. Will they do anything about it?

  By Erika Fry

  Thu Feb 2 2012 12:29 PM Comments (1)

• Currents

  Florida Roots A native son discusses environmental journalism

  By Curtis Brainard

  Thu Feb 2 2012 06:00 AM

• The Audit

  The Old-School Value of Facebook

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Feb 1 2012 06:41 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Three Thoughts on Mitt Romney’s ‘Very Poor’ Day What makes for a gaffe, what Medicaid really does, and what lame questions!

  By Greg Marx

  Wed Feb 1 2012 05:07 PM Comments (11)

• Campaign Desk

  Super PAC Reporting: Recommended Reading Because you know you need to get up to speed

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  Wed Feb 1 2012 02:57 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Stories I’d Like to See The Dodd-Frank effect, unions and private equity, and Newt’s expenses

  By Steven Brill

  Wed Feb 1 2012 12:46 PM

• Behind the News, Transparency

  To Sue or Not to Sue? The first two years of OGIS

  By Erin Siegal

  Wed Feb 1 2012 12:37 PM

• Review

  Brief Encounters Reviewing anthologies on food in wartime reporting and the best of Wolcott Gibbs

  By James Boylan

  Wed Feb 1 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Finally, Fraud Charges; Gee Whiz Wired; Freddie

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Feb 1 2012 01:30 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Bloomberg’s Big Miss in Silicon Valley Hiring Story An analysis forgets mergers and acquisitions

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 31 2012 07:14 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  Romney’s Hispanic Support: About That Florida Poll Reporters must tell readers about polls’ shortcomings

  By Brian E. Crowley

  Tue Jan 31 2012 12:19 PM

• Behind the News, Borders & Bylines

  Why Aren’t More Arab Americans Working in Mainstream Journalism? Group remains underrepresented in US newsrooms

  By Justin D. Martin

  Tue Jan 31 2012 11:21 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  A Laurel to The Record For a disturbing tale of sickness and medical expense

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Tue Jan 31 2012 11:15 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Las Vegas Review-Journal Asks Four Key Questions… …But doesn’t help readers evaluate candidates’ answers

  By Jay Jones

  Tue Jan 31 2012 09:34 AM

• The Research Report

  The Algorithm Method Making news decisions in a clickocracy

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

  Tue Jan 31 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Data Pool 3, The UK Prints, Copyright

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 30 2012 07:56 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  ProPublica and NPR on Freddie Mac’s Conflicts

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 30 2012 04:34 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Updating the Privacy Protection Act for the Digital Era Law protecting journalists from searches didn’t anticipate cloud computing

  By Jonathan W. Peters

  Mon Jan 30 2012 01:46 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Medicare Versus Obamacare The fight begins in Florida

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Jan 30 2012 12:22 PM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  Houses of Straw Flimsy votes and arguments

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Jan 30 2012 12:20 PM

• Feature

  Friday Night Bytes In Texas, high school football is the killer app

  By Jake Batsell

  Mon Jan 30 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 27 2012 06:14 PM

• The Audit

  Evangelicals, Mormons, and Mitt Romney

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 27 2012 06:06 PM Comments (14)

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  The Presidential Energy Narrative Campaign coverage takes on a green hue

  By Curtis Brainard

  Fri Jan 27 2012 05:30 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  For Obama’s Vegas Visit, Competing Press Angles As Sun explores natural gas agenda, Review-Journal delves into the “briar patch”

  By Jay Jones

  Fri Jan 27 2012 03:26 PM

• Fiftieth Anniversary

  Tin Soldier An American Vigilante In Afghanistan, Using the Press for Profit and Glow

  By Mariah Blake

  Fri Jan 27 2012 02:39 PM

• Campaign Desk

  In Florida, the GOP Woos Hispanic Voters Can the press push the candidates past pandering?

  By Justin Peters

  Fri Jan 27 2012 01:48 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Charlie Rose’s Weak Q&A With the SEC’s Khuzami

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 27 2012 01:13 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Summers: “Inside Job had essentially all its facts wrong”

  By Felix Salmon

  Fri Jan 27 2012 10:49 AM Comments (16)

• Campaign Desk

  Edsall: ‘Newt Gingrich’s History is Fair Game’ And other thoughts on when the press should examine the private lives of public figures

  By Erika Fry

  Fri Jan 27 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  The Jury is in On “jury-rigged” and “jerry-built” confusion

  By Merrill Perlman

  Fri Jan 27 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Mortgage Bonds, Junkets, Digital Hype

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 26 2012 08:54 PM

• Behind the News

  Local TV Stations Rally to Oppose Media Transparency What exactly are their “public interest obligations”?

  By Steven Waldman

  Thu Jan 26 2012 03:16 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Wealthy Bloomberg Subscribers Call for Higher Taxes

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 26 2012 03:00 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Get Ready, Buckeyes—The Campaigns Are Coming! Ohio’s political press prepares for the message war

  By T.C. Brown

  Thu Jan 26 2012 02:32 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Who is Sheldon Adelson? Florida Needs to Know State’s newsrooms haven’t focused their resources on the super PAC story

  By Brian E. Crowley

  Thu Jan 26 2012 11:36 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Waiting for Newt in Naples Just because the candidate’s not there doesn’t mean there’s not a story

  By Justin Peters

  Thu Jan 26 2012 06:56 AM

• The Lower Case

  The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

  By The Editors

  Thu Jan 26 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Subpar Tom Friedman, Big Lie of the Crisis, Obama on Fraud

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jan 25 2012 09:34 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Journal Takes Us Inside the Google Drugs Sting

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jan 25 2012 06:36 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  Voters to Press: Tell Us Where the Candidates Stand In South Carolina, readers look to local papers for the basics

  By Erika Fry

  Wed Jan 25 2012 03:43 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  The Colorado Columnist on the Bus A look at the Denver Post’s choice to send a liberal columnist (only) to cover a GOP primary

  By Mary Winter

  Wed Jan 25 2012 01:15 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Jon Stewart Takes on Sebelius What Madame Secretary didn’t say

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Jan 25 2012 12:38 PM Comments (2)

• Essay

  When the 99% Had a Paper The brief, wondrous life of PM

  By Christopher B. Daly

  Wed Jan 25 2012 06:00 AM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Dimon the Persecuted, Mitt’s Taxes, Minimum Wage

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jan 25 2012 02:32 AM Comments (3)

• The Observatory

  Keystone XL Jobs Bewilder Media Reporters still fumbling numbers in wake of pipeline’s rejection

  By Curtis Brainard

  Tue Jan 24 2012 04:30 PM Comments (17)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Mitt Romney’s Taxes

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 24 2012 04:21 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  A Trail of Unexpected Costs on the Campaign Trail Price-gouging in the primary states

  By Ben Adler

  Tue Jan 24 2012 03:30 PM Comments (5)

• The News Frontier

  Teaching Cyber-Security Confidentiality promises often require technical skill

  By Alysia Santo

  Tue Jan 24 2012 01:38 PM

• Behind the News

  Stories I’d Like to See More primary math, Boeing’s second chance, and DHS mission creep

  By Steven Brill

  Tue Jan 24 2012 12:05 PM

• Language Corner

  Confidence Trick Scams ‘R’ Us

  By Merrill Perlman

  Tue Jan 24 2012 11:51 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  A State of the Union Media Prebuttal Instead of overhyping the SOTU, here’s what reporters should do

  By Brendan Nyhan

  Tue Jan 24 2012 11:43 AM Comments (1)

• Currents

  The Velvet Rope Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print?

  By Janet Paskin

  Tue Jan 24 2012 06:00 AM Comments (5)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Kim Dotcom and SOPA, Private Equity, Swipe Fees

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 23 2012 07:58 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 23 2012 05:30 PM

• The Audit

  How Sharing Disrupts Media

  By Felix Salmon

  Mon Jan 23 2012 01:45 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Romney’s History on Medicare How he came to accept “premium support”

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Jan 23 2012 12:19 PM Comments (1)

• Feature

  The Ring is Counted Out Boxing’s duplicity devours an honest magazine

  By Ivan G. Goldman

  Mon Jan 23 2012 06:00 AM Comments (40)

• Campaign Desk

  Newt Gingrich, Media Critic Primary night in South Carolina, Gingrich and supporters sound off on press

  By Erika Fry

  Mon Jan 23 2012 06:00 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 20 2012 09:43 PM

• Campaign Desk

  What I Saw at the South Carolina Debate Or, how campaign coverage is like industrial farming

  By Erika Fry

  Fri Jan 20 2012 03:12 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Two Days, Two Good Investigations From Mollenkamp

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 20 2012 02:31 PM

• Campaign Desk

  In South Carolina, Another Hospital/Journo Alliance New twist, old problem

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Fri Jan 20 2012 11:50 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  A Day in the Life of South Carolina’s ‘Sic Willie’ How the Palmetto State’s most read, most ribald politics blogger goes about his work

  By Erika Fry

  Fri Jan 20 2012 06:00 AM

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes From our Online Readers Readers respond to Erika Fry’s “The Romenesko Saga”

  By The Editors

  Fri Jan 20 2012 06:00 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup, GOP and the Unemployed, SOPA

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 19 2012 09:24 PM Comments (5)

• The Observatory

  Does Big Pharma Pay Your Doctor? New federal database could be a boon for reporters … but it needs their input

  By Curtis Brainard

  Thu Jan 19 2012 02:30 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  Looking for Lessons in the Swift Boat Saga Is Ohio’s press corps prepared for the 2012 campaign?

  By T.C. Brown

  Thu Jan 19 2012 01:57 PM Comments (9)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  On Debt, Mitt’s of Two Minds A career built on it and a campaign that rails against it

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 19 2012 12:08 PM