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To the Ramparts!
Study says stock prices rise and fall with protest coverage
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 8, 2007 at 05:00 PM
Media coverage of protests against publicly traded corporations affects stock prices. The more coverage, the more the price declines. This... More
The Larry Silverstein Story, Continued….
Esquire joins the Financial Times in fantasyland
By Elinore Longobardi Nov 1, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Second of two articles Coverage of Larry Silverstein is the object of much consternation here at The Audit. Why do... More
The Remarkable Larry Silverstein Story
How the FT (and others) were had by a huckster
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 30, 2007 at 11:02 AM
First of two articles We here at The Audit understand the constraints under which the business press operates, and we’re... More
Missing MGM Mirage Macau Mob Material
NYT and WSJ leave out key facts about an Atlantic City casino announcement
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 22, 2007 at 10:50 AM
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both rolled snake-eyes in covering MGM Mirage’s announcement earlier this month... More
Fuzzy Connection in the Journal
A good telecom yarn misses the larger point by an Iowa mile
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 12, 2007 at 10:49 AM
The headline is catchy: “How 2 Guys’ Iowa Connection Took Big Telecoms for a Ride.” This article appeared October 4... More
How ‘Subprime’ Crushed ‘Predatory’
And what it says about language, the business press, and how we think about the economic crisis
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 12, 2009 at 09:50 PM
What is the root cause of the financial crisis? “Lousy loans,” says Elizabeth Warren, the chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight... More
Three Faces of Greeley
How the local, regional, and national press covered a bank failure
By Elinore Longobardi Aug 24, 2009 at 09:43 AM
What do you know about New Frontier Bank? We can pretty confidently say, that depends on where you live. If... More
Asphalt Jungle
A fresh look at a monumental smackdown over urban renewal
By Elinore Longobardi Aug 19, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City | By Anthony... More
Derivatives Echo Chamber
The business press largely parroted industry on a massive, prescient ‘94 GAO study
By Elinore Longobardi Mar 9, 2009 at 01:26 PM
The Audit wants to know. What role did the press play in diffusing financial warnings in the years leading up... More
Frontline Disappoints
A surprisingly weak effort on the financial crisis; do-over needed
By Elinore Longobardi Feb 23, 2009 at 06:54 AM
Dismay. That was our response to Frontline’s recent documentary on the financial crisis. And our problem wasn’t even with the... More
The Business Press and the Cult of Personality
A misplaced emphasis on celebrity over substance got us into this mess
By Elinore Longobardi Feb 19, 2009 at 04:45 PM
In times of great troubles, it is natural to look for a savior, someone who can get us out of... More
Two Lives
The bifurcated existence of a Gilded Age celebrity
By Elinore Longobardi Feb 4, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line By Martha Sandweiss | The Penguin... More
A Guide To Bailout Transparency Sites
Another public service from The Audit
By Elinore Longobardi Jan 30, 2009 at 09:35 AM
It is no secret that bailout transparency is a problem. Now that taxpayers have become financiers, we have a right... More
A City in the Ditch
Weekly Standard, Labash, and LeDuff look beyond “Detroit.”
By Elinore Longobardi Jan 19, 2009 at 08:05 AM
An Audit Credit to The Weekly Standard for helping to fill one of the business press’s yawning reality gaps: the... More
Losing Lehman
Press coverage dances around the true shame of Fuld and his fallen firm
By Elinore Longobardi Jan 8, 2009 at 09:04 AM
The press has a Lehman problem. We’ve suspected as much for a while now, but only steeled ourselves to trace... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
