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Sugar, Sugar
Credit to Florida newspapers for stellar reporting on U.S. Sugar deal
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM
A Credit to the Florida press for its reporting on the state’s agreement to buy nearly three hundred square miles... More
Who Invented Facebook?
Credit to Rolling Stone’s reporting on the Facebook genesis saga
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 26, 2008 at 07:30 AM
A Credit to Rolling Stone for its unauthorized history of the popular social-networking site Facebook. The driving question: Whose idea... More
Foreclosure Phil Gets Fingered
Credits to Mother Jones and the NYT
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 24, 2008 at 08:47 AM
A Credit to Mother Jones for an excellent piece by David Corn on former Sen. Phil Gramm’s role in deregulating... More
The Master Builder?
Debit to Metropolis for its story on construction at the WTC site
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 23, 2008 at 10:22 AM
A Debit to Metropolis for giving us occasion to repeat ourselves, yet again, about ground zero: The rebuilding project is... More
A Fawning “Facetime”
Debit to BizWeek and Maria Bartiromo
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 20, 2008 at 11:22 AM
A Debit to BusinessWeek for lobbing softball questions at Chrysler CEO Robert L. Nardelli, in one of Maria Bartiromo’s “Facetime”... More
Graphic, Not Very Novel
Debit to Portfolio’s illustrated history of Bear Stearns
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 19, 2008 at 03:00 PM
A Debit to Portfolio for an experiment that doesn't quite work: a brief illustrated history of the collapse of Bear... More
Have Some Money, Senator!
Credits to the WSJ and Portfolio for exposing secret politico loan program
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM
A Credit to The Wall Street Journal for exposing the existence of Countrywide’s special loan program for politicians. Countrywide Financial... More
Credit Crisis? What Credit Crisis?
Debit for Fortune’s puff piece on KB Home
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 19, 2008 at 08:04 AM
A Debit to Fortune for a piece on KB Home’s new business strategy: build smaller and charge less, in line... More
Mazel Tov, Namibia
Credits for the WSJ and New York’s CW11
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 18, 2008 at 08:25 AM
A Credit to the WSJ for an interesting front page story by Steve Stecklow on former Comverse Technology CEO Jacob... More
NYP Scoops Competition. Again.
Is the Chrysler Building on the block?
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 17, 2008 at 01:04 PM
A second Credit today to the New York Post for a nice scoop on the possible sale of a large... More
NYP’s Refreshing Outrage
Cuozzo tears into ground zero nonsense
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 17, 2008 at 07:57 AM
A Credit to the New York Post for some righteous anger about still more delays at the World Trade Center... More
Bad Credit! Bad!
Business Week exposes credit industry’s arbitration scheme
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 16, 2008 at 02:10 PM
A Credit to BusinessWeek for a damning cover story revealing that the major arbitration firm for credit card disputes heavily... More
Journal’s Blame-the-Borrower Boondoggle
Piece joins a list of shameful stories on this “phenomenon”
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 16, 2008 at 07:09 AM
A Debit to The Wall Street Journal for the latest twist on blame-the-borrower reporting, and labeling it one of the... More
Repent, You Lazy Spendthrift!
David Brooks has a ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ Moment
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 13, 2008 at 08:11 AM
A Debit to The New York Times for David Brooks’s column identifying America’s spending habits as a “moral” problem, and... More
Chronicle Credit
Going deeper to point out banks’ loan enigma
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 12, 2008 at 01:22 PM
A Credit to The Chronicle of Higher Education for some insightful analysis of the government’s rescue plan for the federal... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
