http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: The future of media is here en Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:50:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Ryan Chittum The Oregonian is about to get Newhouse'd. As the billionaires' Advance Publications has rolled out its newspaper-liquidation plan across the country, it has engaged in a curious bit of corporate name-shuffling. The Times Picayune company yielded to NOLA Media Group (and Advance Central Services). The Plain Dealer shifted focus to digital, cut publication/delivery, and added Northeast Ohio Media Group. Advance's... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_oregonian_readies_the_guil.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_oregonian_readies_the_guil.php The Audit Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Dean Starkman The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists hit the mother lode when it published the first of its dozens of exposés on the off-shore tax-haven business back in April. The series, based on the mammoth database obtained, somehow, from two unlucky companies involved in the giant and shady asset-hiding business, continues to reverberate. The number of investigations, reforms, and... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_cross-boarder_tax-haven_data.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_cross-boarder_tax-haven_data.php The Audit Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Rebecca Theim A year ago this week, about 200 now-former employees of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, including almost half the newsroom, learned they would lose their jobs and that their newspaper--175 years old, but still lively, potent, and deeply interwoven into the life of a great American city--would be seriously diminished. Although The New York Times had weeks earlier broken... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/exclusive_survey_a_year_later.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/exclusive_survey_a_year_later.php The Audit Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Dean Starkman It's not a great sign that the Times of London is laying off 20 editorial staffers just as it parent company is splitting in two. And while the layoffs amount to less than 10 percent of the staff, the significance is in the reason given by its acting editor, John Witherow, who explicitly says that "subsidies" from News... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_tide_going_out_on_news_cor.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_tide_going_out_on_news_cor.php The Audit Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:55:00 -0500 By Dean Starkman http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/nonprofits_are_still_a_drop_in.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/nonprofits_are_still_a_drop_in.php The Audit Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:55:30 -0500 By Dean Starkman What follows is an interview and discussion I had in Odense, Denmark, with Thomas Pettitt and Lars Ole Sauerberg, two scholars at the University of Southern Denmark, who made a splash in digital media circles with their theory of the "Gutenberg Parenthesis," the idea that the digital age, rather than solely a leap into the future, also marks a... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_future_is_medieval.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_future_is_medieval.php The Audit Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:05:00 -0500 By Dean Starkman Jon Weil's column the other day was one you really did not want to miss and points to wider ways in which the government's relationship to the public has changed since, and partly because of, the financial crisis. Weil points with incredulity to the quiet move by the conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/official_secrets_of_the_financ.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/official_secrets_of_the_financ.php The Audit Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:05:34 -0500 By Dean Starkman Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms. Today, it's rare for reporters, or even former reporters, to speak up about what's happening within their organizations, even if it's about a simple disagreement over editorial choices. Well, now one has. And not just any reporter. Ann Davis Vaughan is a former Wall Street and investigative reporter for The Wall Street... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/exclusive_the_gestation_period.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/exclusive_the_gestation_period.php The Audit Mon, 03 Jun 2013 06:49:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum Goldman Sachs issued a report recently claiming to debunk the fact that too-big-to-fail banks like itself get implicit taxpayer subsidies worth tens of billions of dollars a year. But Goldman's dissembling gets methodically disassembled by Bloomberg View's Mark Whitehouse. It's something to behold: Before getting into the details, it's important to note that the Goldman analysts are posing the... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_goldman_dissembles.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_goldman_dissembles.php The Audit Fri, 31 May 2013 11:00:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum The top story in all the major papers on Wednesday was news that home prices jumped 11 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, further confirmation that the housing recovery is underway in earnest. The double-digit home-price increases and return of bidding wars have led to an awful lot of "bubble" talk lately. Gawker declared yesterday... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/its_not_another_housing_bubble.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/its_not_another_housing_bubble.php The Audit Thu, 30 May 2013 11:00:00 -0500 By Felix Salmon Two years ago, when I wrote about the death of blogging, I contrasted the decline of old-fashioned reverse-chronological blogs with the huge success of Twitter and, especially, Tumblr. Since then, of course, Tumblr has been sold to Yahoo for more than $1 billion, while Twitter is reportedly valued at some 10 times that amount. Clearly there's a... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/promiscuous_media.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/promiscuous_media.php The Audit Wed, 29 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum I've been following the Amazon tax-avoidance story for years now, and I haven't seen it better-told than it is on the cover of the new Fortune. Peter Elkind and Doris Burke get nearly 6,000 words to tell the story, and though it's a bit of a clip job, it's a very good clip job (ADDING: I should say "clip... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/fortune_runs_down_amazons_tax.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/fortune_runs_down_amazons_tax.php The Audit Fri, 24 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum The bulk of the IRS scandal press coverage has been seriously devoid of the kind of context that tells readers how and why the targeting of Tea Party groups was almost certainly not a Nixonian plot from the Oval Office to intimidate political opponents. So it's great to see ProPublica's excellent piece showing why the scandal is way, way... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_irs_context_silico.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_irs_context_silico.php The Audit Thu, 23 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum The Motley Fool's Brian Richards posts a fascinating look inside the pump and dump world of penny-stock promoters, reporting how the hype machine worked in the case of a shell company called Goff Corporation. Richards describes Goff as "a social recruiting-company-turned-Colombian-gold miner," which should have been enough to scare off any investor with a light on upstairs. Fortunately for... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bloggers_for_hire_on_a_penny-s.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bloggers_for_hire_on_a_penny-s.php The Audit Wed, 22 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news stations in my home state. Chances are good that the bottom corner of your TV screen come May has the familiar map of the state covered with red, yellow, and green Doppler radar images on loop denoting the severity of... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/okcs_tv_news_stations_shine_in.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/okcs_tv_news_stations_shine_in.php The Audit Tue, 21 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500