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Money’s Helpful Housing Numbers
Chart points up regional differences, shifting foreclosure rate
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 11, 2008 at 08:07 AM
A Credit to Money for publishing an intriguing and informativechart of housing data—including the change in the foreclosure rate over... More
Putting Them Out
The Times works the Miami eviction beat
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 10, 2008 at 01:13 PM
A Credit to The New York Times for adding to its recent strong coverage on the impact of the housing... More
The Tipping Point
BusinessWeek is smart on oil prices and consumers
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM
A Credit to BusinessWeek for a piece that describes the combined effect of the housing crisis and the oil boom... More
Fast Company: Addled by Sex, Money
The monthly misses the story at American Apparel
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 9, 2008 at 01:50 PM
A Debit to Fast Company for a piece on American Apparel’s marketing strategy that unveils old news, ignores current problems,... More
About That Chernobyl Accident…
Fortune alt-energy piece reads like nuke-industry spin
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 9, 2008 at 07:50 AM
A Debit to Fortune and columnist Elizabeth Spiers for getting too aglow about nuclear power—and propagating the industry's spin. With... More
Debits & Credits
A glaring and common mistake on housing; more good NYT work on foreclosures; Portfolio (heart) Big Pharma, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Jun 2, 2008 at 08:20 AM
A Debit to just about everybody for constructing a piece of housing news that doesn’t stand up. We learned from... More
Daily News Leaves Times in the Dirt
News’s solid, scrappy reporting on city construction projects buries Times
By Elinore Longobardi May 20, 2008 at 01:08 PM
If beat reporting were a softball game, the Daily News would be soundly beating The New York Times—at least in... More
Debits & Credits: LAT 1 - Housing Myths 0
Deconstructing mortgage industry nonsense; yet another dumb Silverstein story; Marketwatch’s fact void, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi May 19, 2008 at 10:58 AM
A Credit to the Los Angeles Times for excellent reporting that shows conventional wisdom—that a significant number of homeowners are... More
Debits & Credits: Fortune’s Reckless Stenography
And now: the uninsured as bank robbers; a fun read from Adweek; the Times blows a headline, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi May 12, 2008 at 11:52 AM
A Debit to Fortune for journalistic laziness and reckless stenography in its interview with Aetna CEO Ron Williams in which... More
Debits & Credits: Morgenson vs. Lender Abuse
Plus, a great healthcare story; deal madness; Directors vs. directors, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi May 5, 2008 at 10:05 AM
A Credit to Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times for something she declined to take credit for herself. Morgenson’s... More
Debits & Credits: Hrd on the St.
For WSJ, less is less; FT plays Boswell again; NYT unwinds ratings snarl; contrarian runs amok, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Apr 28, 2008 at 11:50 AM
WSJ cuts muscle A Debit to The Wall Street Journal—and we mean to the institution itself, not the reporter—for... More
Debits & Credits: 10,000 Words in Search of a Trend
Plus: Undue credit-taking at the WSJ; Wilson Quarterly’s wise look at schools; Variety’s empty Olympics coverage, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Apr 21, 2008 at 11:33 AM
A Debit to The Economist for a special report on how digital technology is making us “nomads.” You may recall... More
Debits & Credits: Fortune and The Nation on Same Page
Plus: LAT’s Couric flipflop; FT channels Wal-Mart; WSJ covers it; a missing pipeline detail; etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Apr 14, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Credits to Fortune and The Nation for broad but incisive pieces that explain the credit crisis and the economic slump.... More
Debits & Credits: Hold the Brass Band
Plus: Names, please?; too easy on boards; vivid scenes from Calcutta; and an east Texas courthouse, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Apr 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Debits to Dow Jones and Bloomberg for being a bit too rah-rah after a big stock rally on Tuesday. In... More
RIP: Stand-Alone Biz Section
They were thin, sure, but they were something
By Elinore Longobardi Apr 3, 2008 at 01:07 PM
Business news is booming these days. Business-news sections not so much. They are disappearing and have been doing so regularly... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
