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Ebony on the Fall of Detroit
The magazine reports the U.S. car industry’s demise is hitting blacks especially hard
By Elinore Longobardi Dec 3, 2008 at 09:59 AM
A Credit to Ebony for a piece describing how the tribulations of the U.S. auto industry are hitting African American... More
Portfolio: Anybody Home?
Two duds about housing suggest the magazine is not getting it
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 25, 2008 at 03:14 PM
A Double Debit to Conde Nast Portfolio for offering us an extended portrait of luxury homebuilder Bob Toll as a... More
New Yorker’s Hot Air on Poverty
Gladwell over-inflates the story of one Goldman banker
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 17, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Things we really don’t like: Articles that pose a question with an obvious answer and then, pretending the answer is... More
Herb Sandler: I’m Hit, But ProPublica’s Fine
A recent Bloomberg account was unclear; we fix the record
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Readers may have wondered about the future funding of the new investigative-news organization ProPublica, if they saw an October 30... More
Semi-Official Symbol of Woe
Same trader shows up in Wall Street crash photos
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 11, 2008 at 03:06 PM
The Economist (Heart) Utah
The magazine reaches too far for a happy narrative on the state’s economy
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 7, 2008 at 09:51 AM
A Debit to The Economist for adding to the list of stories that try too hard to give good news... More
The Great Man Theory and Hank Paulson
Business press iconography is over the top
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 5, 2008 at 04:09 PM
The mythology of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson got a helping hand recently from a spate of magazine cover stories unwilling... More
Halve Not
Unreflective Reuters undresses itself in misuse of transitive verb
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 31, 2008 at 09:49 AM
A Debit to Reuters for posting a 19th century headline—and getting it wrong. The topic is undergarments. Specifically, Hanesbrands, about... More
Where are the Subprime Toasters?
Harper’s calls for a Financial Product Safety Commission
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 24, 2008 at 09:54 AM
Sometimes we come across pieces that are so clear, relevant and to-the-point that we feel like quoting them to you... More
Disposable Story
Fortune overplays the meaning of a personal-savings uptick
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 23, 2008 at 10:01 AM
A Debit to Fortune for repeating an old canard of the business press: that an increase in the personal savings... More
Picturing the Crisis
A look at photographic coverage in the financial press
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM
What does the financial crisis look like? Well, judging from recent weeks, it looks better in The New York Times... More
The Newsweek Bubble
Zakaria is living in some other economy
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 17, 2008 at 09:40 AM
A Debit to Newsweek for trying a bit too hard to look on the bright side as the latest economic... More
Broken Homes
Harper’s on the ground in the housing bust
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 10, 2008 at 07:55 AM
A Credit to Harper’s for a brutal piece (subscription required) on cleaning out foreclosed upon and abandoned houses. We have... More
NPR Leads on SEC
Picking its spots, public radio continues to shine in credit crisis
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 3, 2008 at 09:58 AM
A Credit to the Chicago Public Radio show This American Life and NPR’s new podcast Planet Money for an incisive... More
The Press and Phil Gramm
The alternative press leads on the policy roots of the credit crisis
By Elinore Longobardi Sep 24, 2008 at 10:45 AM
The alternative press has led the way on the story of Phil Gramm and the policy roots of the financial... 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.
