tag:www.cjr.org,2011-09-12://14 2013-05-20T05:45:55Z Columbia Journalism Review: The future of media is here tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37627 2013-05-20T10:50:00Z 2013-05-20T05:45:55Z

The paper mishandles news on the Tea Party targeting story

Ryan Chittum Rupert Murdoch must have loved his Wall Street Journal front page on Saturday. Editors splashed this headline across the top of the paper: Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case Hearing Shows Obama Administration Officials Were Told in June 2012 of Probe Into Tea-Party Targeting Headlines like these, with their dark insinuations, play right into the hands of the paper's columnists, who tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37619 2013-05-17T10:50:00Z 2013-05-17T15:52:56Z

The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House

Ryan Chittum We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street Journal, and no, she will not be laughed out of Washington. There are papers to sell and clicks to harvest. Forget about the fact that there's zero evidence of any White House involvement in the IRS flagging Tea Party groups, tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37602 2013-05-16T10:50:00Z 2013-05-16T14:31:00Z

The nonprofit news experience undermines the Tea Party targeting outrage

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37590 2013-05-15T10:50:00Z 2013-05-15T06:23:37Z

The Huffington Post on a government bonanza

Ryan Chittum The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour comes up with a great angle on news that the Education Department expects to make $51 billion in profit this year off student loans: Exxon Mobil Corp., the nation's most profitable company, reported $44.9 billion in net income last year. Apple Inc. recorded a $41.7 billion profit in its 2012 fiscal year, which ended in tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37569 2013-05-14T10:50:00Z 2013-05-15T18:59:01Z

Not nearly in the Murdoch hacking league, but it requires a cultural shift

Ryan Chittum The Bloomberg terminal-snooping story is a serious ethics problem, but I've read some awfully hysterical takes on it in the past couple of days. It's time to get some perspective on what we know happened and just how wrong it was. Adam Penenberg of Pando Daily wrote a head-scratcher headlined, "How is Bloomberg's snooping different from News Corp.'s phone hacks?" tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37553 2013-05-13T10:50:00Z 2013-05-13T07:41:44Z

Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data

Ryan Chittum Bloomberg News has gotten a big black eye for snooping on its customers, and Editor-In-Chief Matt Winkler apologizes in a column headlined "Holding Ourselves Accountable." We are defined by our words -- and they applied to us when a Bloomberg LP customer expressed concern that Bloomberg News reporters had access to limited client information. Our client is right. Our reporters tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37540 2013-05-10T10:50:00Z 2013-05-10T04:56:10Z

And the New York Post scoops

Ryan Chittum The New York Post reports that Goldman Sachs complained to Bloomberg that its reporters were spying on it via the company's famous terminal: In one instance, a Bloomberg reporter asked a Goldman executive if a partner at the bank had recently left the firm -- noting casually that he hadn't logged into his Bloomberg terminal in some time, sources added. tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37533 2013-05-09T17:14:47Z 2013-05-09T18:52:55Z

And that's saying something

Ryan Chittum I'm still trying to reattach my jaw after reading this op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal today. It's shameful even by the dismal standards of that page. In Defense of Carbon Dioxide The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature. Breaking! Plants like CO2. The numbskullery on display here was tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37521 2013-05-09T10:50:00Z 2013-05-09T06:35:54Z

Americans sue to get farm jobs from Mexican guest workers

Ryan Chittum The New York Times is good to go page one with a story on a fascinating lawsuit in Georgia that alleges racial discrimination... in favor of Mexican guest workers. But as Congress weighs immigration legislation expected to expand the guest worker program, another group is increasingly crying foul -- Americans, mostly black, who live near the farms and say they tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37513 2013-05-08T20:36:53Z 2013-05-08T20:41:23Z

Major defections from the New Orleans paper intensify a newspaper war

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36906 2013-05-07T10:50:00Z 2013-05-07T14:35:43Z

All but erasing the line between editorial and marketing

Ryan Chittum Here's a Business Insider vertical called the "Future of Business." Let's hope it's not the future of news. The problems start with the banner across the top of the page: If "Within every industry, transformational change is coming. Embrace it" reads like vacuous ad copy, well, the BI section is sponsored by SAP, and the actual blog posts aren't much tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36884 2013-05-03T10:50:00Z 2013-05-06T05:15:05Z

The Wall Street Journal's excellent investigation digs up the dirt

Ryan Chittum In the real word, big conspiracies are hard to maintain. People talk. Disagreements develop. Word tends to get out. But sometimes widespread conspiracies really do develop and go on for years. How do those get started and how do they go undetected for so long? Take a look at the mind-bogglingly enormous Libor scandal. How did as many as 16 tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36866 2013-05-02T15:59:47Z 2013-05-02T17:08:42Z

A revealing Thomas Friedman column on 401(k)s

Felix Salmon http://www.cjr.org It's May Day, and Henry Blodget is celebrating -- if that's the right word -- with three charts, of which the most germane is the one above. It shows total US wages as a proportion of total US GDP -- a number which continues to hit all-time lows. Blodget also puts up the converse chart -- corporate profits as tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36865 2013-05-02T15:22:37Z 2013-05-02T15:22:48Z

The WSJ sticks it to Sheldon Adelson by keeping a reporter on the beat

Ryan Chittum Francine McKenna asked a good question on Twitter the other day about Wall Street Journal coverage of Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands: Is it okay for the reporter Kate O'Keeffe to cover Adelson while he's suing her for libel? The short answer is yes, and it's worth unpacking why. Back in December, the Journal published a story about a lawsuit tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36848 2013-05-02T15:00:00Z 2013-05-02T15:04:42Z

Only 22 percent of a big sample even offer mobile products

Dean Starkman http://www.cjr.org One of the truisms of digital journalism, and one that happens to be true, is that mobile is a big part of the future of news, if it isn't the future. The latest Pew "State of the Media" report goes on at length about the migration of news to mobile in a section titled, aptly, "Digital: As Mobile Grows Rapidly,