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1. The Audit

   Did the financial blogosphere go away?

   October 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown ask today where all the finance bloggers went. Both of them reckon that there’s been a decline in financial blogging of late, although neither attempts to quantify it; my feeling is that although... Continue reading

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   Conspiracy Jack

   October 10, 2012 05:15 PM

   Why has Jack Welch doubled down on the false, inflammatory, and slanderous tweet that he sent out five minutes after the jobs report came out on Friday? Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   News Corp.’s digital divergence

   June 29, 2012 03:00 PM

   There’s no secret why Rupert Murdoch is breaking News Corp into two pieces. Amy Chozick explains: News Corporation had evolved into a successful entertainment company with a newspaper problem, several people close to the company have said. “The... Continue reading

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   How Jonah Lehrer should blog

   June 20, 2012 12:53 PM

   In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you’re an “ideas man”, you shouldn’t be a blogger: For professional thinkers like Gladwell and Lehrer, the key to maintaining... Continue reading

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   CNBC graphic of the day, Greek bond yield edition

   June 11, 2012 02:20 PM

   Martin Wolf appeared on CNBC today, which is never a good idea. Between all the swishing noises and flashing graphics, it was pretty hard to understand what he was saying — and in any case, the questions... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   How Gawker wants to monetize comments

   May 23, 2012 11:03 AM

   Back in November, I grappled with the fact that online display ads in general, and banner ads in particular, are clearly not working very well; my suggested alternative was for brand advertisers to embrace the power of the external... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   What the Loebs Can Learn From the Pulitzers

   April 18, 2012 12:04 PM

   I’m not a huge fan of journalism awards. The Pulitzers, in particular, are a peculiar fish: they tend to award long and worthy work which almost nobody had the time to wade through when it first came out. That’s a... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Why Twitter Will Get More Annoying

   March 22, 2012 09:22 AM

   Happy sixth birthday, Twitter! You’re the service which started off as a way for groups of friends to keep in touch with each other via text messages, and you’ve grown into a revolutionary platform for connecting and... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   When Journalists Take Money From Wall Street

   March 20, 2012 02:12 PM

   Many thanks to Paul Starobin for getting to the bottom of the question of journalists being paid by Wall Street to give speeches. This is one of those issues, a bit like the exact meaning of “off the record”,... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    The Worst Personal-Finance Video Ever

    March 15, 2012 01:45 AM

    Like many people, I’m fascinated by lottery tickets. In many ways they’re the purest speculative investment in the world: a piece of paper which is all but worthless today might be worth $200 million tomorrow. Literally. Lottery tickets are... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Why Journalists Need to Link

    February 27, 2012 04:28 PM

    Jonathan Stray has a great essay up at Nieman Lab entitled “Why link out? Four journalistic purposes of the noble hyperlink”. I basically agree with all of it; links are wonderful things, and the more of them that we... Continue reading

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    Matter’s Vision for Long-form Journalism

    February 23, 2012 07:56 PM

    Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Matter, and it’s going to be home to long-form investigative narrative journalism about science and technology. “No cheap reviews, no snarky opinion pieces, no top... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Quality vs. Quantity Online

    February 13, 2012 09:15 AM

    At about the same time that Michael Kinsley’s hilarious response to a blog post of mine hit the web, The Atlantic also uploaded to its website Kathleen McAuliffe’s excellent story about how parasites shape our... Continue reading

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    Elizabeth Spiers and the Reinvented New York Observer

    February 6, 2012 11:28 AM

    There are three main reasons that I like entering into bets with people. The first is, simply, that it’s fun. The second is that I love to win bets. And the third is that I love to lose them. I... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day

    February 3, 2012 11:15 AM

    Ken Doctor has a very smart and interesting take on the news that the NYT now has 390,000 paying digital subscribers — plus another 16,000 at the Boston Globe. It’s unambiguously good news, on many fronts. First, and... Continue reading

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    Summers: “Inside Job had essentially all its facts wrong”

    January 27, 2012 10:49 AM

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    How Sharing Disrupts Media

    January 23, 2012 01:45 PM

    I’m at DLD in Munich, where David Karp of Tumblr and Samir Arora of Glam Media helped me understand the way that media and publishing are evolving these days, and the way in which creating, editing, and publishing are... Continue reading

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    Will Fact-Checking Go the Way of Blogs?

    January 18, 2012 02:37 PM

    Lucas Graves has by far the best and most sophisticated response to NYT ombudsman Arthur Brisbane’s silly question about “truth vigilantes”. Graves makes the important point that Brisbane’s “objective and fair” formulation is itself problematic: as one of... Continue reading

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    Holding Aggregators to Journalistic Standards

    November 11, 2011 04:32 PM

    Now I’ve got my rant off my chest, let me try to add a bigger-picture point to the noise surrounding Romeneskogate. The unanimous reaction to Julie Moos’s ridiculous piece has held little back: Hamilton Nolan called it... Continue reading

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    Link-Phobia and Plagiarism

    October 18, 2011 10:34 AM

    Jack Shafer has an unforgiving take on l’affaire Kendra Marr: The plagiarist defrauds readers by leading them to believe that he has come by the facts of his story first-hand-that he vouches for the accuracy of the facts... Continue reading

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