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1. The Audit

   Waiting for the Angelides Commission

   September 21, 2009 08:00 AM

   Kudos to The New York Times edit page for dogging the poky progress of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel that is supposed to look into the roots of the financial crisis, but is only now... Continue reading

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   Investors vs. the Public

   September 17, 2009 05:02 PM

   Bloomberg posts interesting results of a poll saying that investors and the general public see Obama's economic performance very differently. Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is rated more highly by the general public than by... Continue reading

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   Anticipating Peter Goodman’s New Book

   September 16, 2009 05:53 PM

   If this excerpt is any indication, Past Due, a new book by New York Times economics writer Peter S. Goodman will deserve wide attention by business-press practitioners and their readers and viewers. The book will expand on what... Continue reading

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   Plagiarism Follies at the Courant

   September 8, 2009 03:53 PM

   On the subject of newspapers chewing their own legs off, the Hartford Courant, is in the process of doing just that these days, first having stumbled into a plagiarism scandal, now by issuing opaque statements while disciplining employees for... Continue reading

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   Gannett Spins the Hamster Wheel

   August 31, 2009 05:09 PM

   It is disturbing, to say the least, to see American newspapers chewing their own legs off as they try to cope with a long-predicted but now very real collapse in their business. Not long ago, it was the Tribune Co.’s... Continue reading

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   A Needless Ethical Slip

   August 28, 2009 10:59 AM

   The WSJ’s current ethical snafu of hiring the head of a global PR giant to write a column, even on such a chicken-salad subject as microtrends, is part of a drip-drip deterioration of standards at the erstwhile global financial... Continue reading

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   Brill Rakes Muck in NYC Schools

   August 27, 2009 05:30 PM

   Steven Brill’s New Yorker story on the quagmire that is the New York City school system is an example of the power of facts in the hands a journalist who knows what to do with them. Brill’s piece, the... Continue reading

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   Final Blow to a 60 Minutes story

   August 21, 2009 09:25 AM

   As Dealbook reports, a New Jersey judge threw out a lawsuit filed by Canadian drugmaker Biovail Corp. against a hedge fund, debunking once and for all the premise of a three-year-old 60 Minutes story. As we said... Continue reading

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   Now We’re Blaming Lending Laws?

   August 18, 2009 04:30 PM

   The WSJ had an interesting story on how Vermont's strict lending laws have kept foreclosures down. But it goes off the rails when it tries to assert the same laws have impeded the state's economic growth. Vermont Mortgage Laws... Continue reading

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    Don’t Dismiss Taibbi

    August 6, 2009 12:58 PM

    Mainstream financial journalism is doing its level, eye-rolling, heavy-sighing best to stuff Matt Taibbi back into the alt-press hole he came from, but he's not going along with it, and the mainstreamers in any case are making a big mistake.... Continue reading

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    When Financial Media Blogs Collide

    July 20, 2009 12:43 PM

    As Ryan Chittum noted on Saturday, Yvette Kantrow, a columnist and editor with The Deal, a Wall Street trade publication owned by Wall Street investors, suggests that The Audit recently failed to write something for fear of offending a... Continue reading

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    Journalism Scandal at News Corp

    July 10, 2009 02:22 AM

    While it's too early to draw conclusions, anyone interested in what goes on at the owner the nation's leading financial daily should understand precisely what is and isn't known about the reporting scandal now roiling The Wall Street Journal's parent,... Continue reading

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    “All gerbils die, and when they do, hardly anybody really gives a damn.”

    June 22, 2009 03:32 PM

    Not bad for a graduation speech. Doug Bates, an editorial writer at the Oregonian, gave University of Oregon J-School grads a soupcon of wisdom recently on how not to do journalism in these perilous times (h/t Romenesko): ... Continue reading

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    A Pecora-Style Commission Will Help the Narrative

    June 12, 2009 01:39 PM

    This occurred to me while reading the extensive coverage leading up to, the live blogging of, the video, and next-day stories this morning about Ken Lewis's testimony before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform.... Continue reading

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    Business Journalism Saves Planet

    June 11, 2009 10:03 AM

    Bloomberg has a nice item showing the power of the business press for good. Or at least the power of language on economic behavior. "As Green Shoots Sprout in Media, Confidence Grows" I don't have a link, but the... Continue reading

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    Attitude Adjustment

    June 11, 2009 09:45 AM

    Bloomberg's Jon Weil offers a helpful perspective on how to think about all these Wall Street goings on, such at the ones considered in the prior post, and the fact that most of the banks and bankers who... Continue reading

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    WSJ Flicks on Lights in a Wall Street Corner

    June 11, 2009 08:32 AM

    A terrific story in the Journal this morning shines a light on what the country's brightest minds do all day on Wall Street—bicker over paper sold by boiler-room lenders to strapped lower-middle-class borrowers. The piece, by Greg Zuckerman,... Continue reading

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    Man on Wire

    June 10, 2009 11:34 AM

    I understand, of course, the American journalism convention to keep opinions out of news columns and to stick to verifiable facts. Lippmann was big on that. Long may it reign. But when I say the Times's David Leonhardt <a... Continue reading

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    More Fed Coverage, Please

    June 10, 2009 10:00 AM

    The MSMs all have short items on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's unusal subpoena of the Federal Reserve, demanding records related to Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch during the panic months last fall. The... Continue reading

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    Language Matters at the Globe

    June 9, 2009 04:30 PM

    I wish The Wall Street Journal had taken better care in crafting the lede of its story on the Boston Newspaper Guild's rejection of the cost-cutting proposal of the Globe's owner, New York Times Co. The Boston Globe's survival... Continue reading

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