http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy en Copyright 2012 Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_game_of_telephone_fools_the.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_game_of_telephone_fools_the.php The Audit Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:00 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_questions_for_jpm.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_questions_for_jpm.php The Audit Thu, 17 May 2012 18:11:51 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_facebook_frenzy.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_facebook_frenzy.php The Audit Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:00 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/whats_the_right_price_for_eboo.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/whats_the_right_price_for_eboo.php The Audit Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:00 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_commercialization.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_commercialization.php The Audit Tue, 15 May 2012 23:15:59 -0500 By Erika Fry 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... http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/economics_of_political_adv.php http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/economics_of_political_adv.php Swing States Project Tue, 15 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_business_press_embarrasses.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_business_press_embarrasses.php The Audit Mon, 14 May 2012 11:04:51 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_chesapeake_woes_th.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_chesapeake_woes_th.php The Audit Fri, 11 May 2012 19:34:07 -0500 By Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_washington_post_cos_self-d.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_washington_post_cos_self-d.php The Audit Fri, 11 May 2012 06:10:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_wsj_dings_austerit.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_wsj_dings_austerit.php The Audit Thu, 10 May 2012 19:58:09 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_blodgets_anonymous.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_blodgets_anonymous.php The Audit Thu, 10 May 2012 02:12:05 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/clearly_quartz_wants_to_help_e.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/clearly_quartz_wants_to_help_e.php The Audit Thu, 10 May 2012 00:58:45 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_murdochs_influence.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_murdochs_influence.php The Audit Wed, 09 May 2012 06:10:00 -0500 By Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_news_corps_board_l.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_news_corps_board_l.php The Audit Tue, 08 May 2012 00:55:36 -0500 By Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_housing_market_at_an_infle.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_housing_market_at_an_infle.php The Audit Mon, 07 May 2012 07:00:00 -0500