tag:www.cjr.org,2011-09-12://4 2012-05-18T20:01:52Z Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy Movable Type Pro 4.34-en tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30453 2012-05-18T19:00:00Z 2012-05-18T20:01:52Z

And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30450 2012-05-17T22:11:51Z 2012-05-18T14:38:42Z

Jesse Eisinger asks what and when Dimon & Co. knew about the bank's big loss

Ryan Chittum ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger, in his NYT DealBook column, writes about what the press and the authorities should be asking about JPMorgan's $3 billion (and counting) loss: The first lesson of the financial crisis is not that the capital markets were poorly regulated or that the banks were too leveraged or that the government needed better processes for taking over failing tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30445 2012-05-17T15:00:00Z 2012-05-17T15:06:52Z

Retail investors prepare to jump on a richly valued IPO

Ryan Chittum The Wall Street Journal's page-one Facebook IPO story does a good job of capturing some uncomfortable parallels to the dot.com bubble. The Journal profiles three investors to give us a feel for how people are thinking about the most buzzed about IPO since Google. The headline on the story tells us that, "In Facebook IPO, Frenzy, Skepticism." But the story tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30441 2012-05-16T15:00:00Z 2012-05-16T17:52:35Z

It's probably not 99 cents

Ryan Chittum Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing that production costs (you know, minor details like advances, editors, etc.) don't or shouldn't factor into the end price. Ingram writes that "It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make," and Masnick follows with "Nobody Cares About the Fixed Costs tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30438 2012-05-16T03:15:59Z 2012-05-16T09:56:38Z

Ryan Chittum Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American life: For example, his column is bizarrely titled, "This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone," despite the fact that right above it on NYTimes.com there is a banner ad for a Citi/American Airlines credit card. But Friedersdorf says Friedman is tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30432 2012-05-15T10:50:00Z 2012-05-15T18:49:45Z

Political ads may not be all "gravy" for local stations—but they're still an awfully good deal

Erika Fry http://www.cjr.org When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt Romney’s easy victory in the state’s April 24 primary. Santorum also dashed the expectations of his home state’s broadcasters, who were counting on the candidate to keep the race competitive and their ad inventory—much of which had already been reserved tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30426 2012-05-14T15:04:51Z 2012-05-14T17:47:12Z

London Whale, sighted one month ago, knocks billions off JPMorgan's worth

Ryan Chittum In what FT Alphaville called "the most excruciating bank conference call we’ve ever heard," press favorite Jamie Dimon announced last week that JPMorgan Chase has lost more than $2 billion on bad derivatives bets made by its chief investment office. It could (meaning, it probably will) lose more than that. On Thursday, we were told up to another billion. By tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30427 2012-05-11T23:34:07Z 2012-05-11T23:37:27Z

Ryan Chittum The hits keep coming at Chesapeake Energy. Today, it's The Wall Street Journal's turn. It reports on page one that the company has put $1.4 billion in unreported liabilities off its balance sheet, far more than analysts had estimated. Most of these costs will hit this year and next, at a time when the company needs to raise substantial cash tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30420 2012-05-11T10:10:00Z 2012-05-11T14:25:24Z

Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30419 2012-05-10T23:58:09Z 2012-05-11T15:05:50Z

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30416 2012-05-10T06:12:05Z 2012-05-10T06:12:27Z

New York cover story dispenses with named sources

Ryan Chittum Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague of Zuckerberg," "another early colleague of Zuckerberg," "one Silicon Valley veteran," "one Valley veteran," "A Zuckerberg confidant," "one insider," "a former Facebook employee," "a former Facebook executive fired by Zuckerberg," "A longtime Facebook exec," "some Zuckerberg skeptics," "One former Facebook tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30415 2012-05-10T04:58:45Z 2012-05-10T21:53:08Z

The Atlantic’s new business site enters a crowded field catering to the 0.1 percent

Ryan Chittum The Atlantic's big new business-journalism project is off to an inauspicious start. First there's the name: Quartz, which is different, and that doesn’t mean worse, necessarily, but…whatever. It's a name. Here's the press release explaining why the venture will be called Quartz instead of The Atlantic Business, Bizlantic, Blantic or, say, Topaz or Borax: “We’re making great progress in our tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30408 2012-05-09T10:10:00Z 2012-05-09T06:19:18Z

A sweeping indictment of the corruption of British politics by News Corp.

Ryan Chittum The News Corp. scandal is so massive and so sprawling that it's just about impossible to bring all the pieces together to see a relatively complete picture. So find some time to read this remarkable 8,000-word essay by openDemocracy founder Anthony Barnett on News Corp. and its corruption of the British government. Barnett does a tremendous job of showing how tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30399 2012-05-08T04:55:36Z 2012-05-08T05:12:09Z

David Carr eyes Rupert Murdoch's crony-filled board of directors

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30393 2012-05-07T11:00:00Z 2012-05-07T11:31:03Z

The Journal explains why bidding wars are starting to bubble up again

Ryan Chittum