Matt Taibbi vs. the SEC

Rolling Stone gets no credit from most of the press for a huge scoop

By Felix Salmon   Aug 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM

Matt Taibbi’s 5,000-word exposé of the SEC’s document-shredding is a magnificent piece of journalism, and is the first and last... More

Why the NYT Paywall Isn’t Like the FT’s

By Felix Salmon   Aug 15, 2011 at 02:32 PM

Fred Wilson has nice things to say about my analysis of the NYT paywall—thanks, Fred!—but it’s worth teasing out one... More

How the NYT Paywall Is Working

By Felix Salmon   Aug 15, 2011 at 02:22 PM

When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in... More

Feces, Fascists, and Michael Lewis

A flop from the best writer in financial journalism

By Felix Salmon   Aug 15, 2011 at 10:55 AM

Kevin Drum doesn’t think much of Michael Lewis’s latest European dispatch for Vanity Fair — and neither do I. There’s... More

The New York Times Paywall Is Working

By Felix Salmon   Jul 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM

Back in April, I was very skeptical that The New York Times would achieve its leaked goal of getting 300,000... More

The Murdochs and the MPs

Survival, but no one is taking their answers at face value.

By Felix Salmon   Jul 19, 2011 at 07:42 PM

The biggest surprise for me, at the Murdoch hearings today, was the lack of political theater and crocodile tears of... More

The Real Rupert Murdoch Exposed

By Felix Salmon   Jul 18, 2011 at 09:08 AM

The single most important task facing Rupert Murdoch right now is to persuade the world that the illegal goings-on in... More

What Damage Could Rebekah Brooks Do to News Corp.?

By Felix Salmon   Jul 8, 2011 at 05:45 PM

The implosion of the News of the World, and of News Corp.’s bluster surrounding hacking and bribery allegations, comes less... More

How’s Seeking Alpha’s Pay-Per-Pageview Experiment Working?

By Felix Salmon   Jul 7, 2011 at 09:41 AM

Seeking Alpha's David Jackson has given David Kaplan some hard numbers on how its pay-per-pageview program is getting along after... More

The State of the Blog

Felix Salmon Talks to Alexis Madrigal

By Felix Salmon   Jul 1, 2011 at 02:36 AM

I’ve felt for a while now that the kind of blogging I do — one person writing a series... More

Nocera vs Sorkin, Bank Capital Edition

By Felix Salmon   Jun 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM

One of the consequences of Joe Nocera's move to the NYT op-ed page is that his column now appears on... More

Dealbook’s Goldman Debate

By Felix Salmon   Jun 15, 2011 at 09:01 PM

It’s the big Dealbook debate! In the red corner, there’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, defending Goldman Sachs from Senator Carl Levin’s... More

Gawker’s Rebound

By Felix Salmon   Jun 14, 2011 at 04:25 PM

It's been more than six months since sales chief Chris Batty left Gawker Media as Nick Denton decided he was... More

Making Sense of Sino-Forest

Ponzi allegations call for an independent arbiter, but the press comes up short

By Felix Salmon   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:27 PM

If you want to move a stock with a research report, you can hardly hope to do better than Muddy... More

Adventures With CNBC Anchors’ Statistics

By Felix Salmon   May 20, 2011 at 04:21 PM

CNBC’s Joe Kernen reports the news in the morning in a fast-paced environment where it’s difficult to be 100% accurate.... More

Sorkin and The Fiscal Times on Taxing the Rich

By Felix Salmon   May 17, 2011 at 01:01 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin gives credence — but doesn’t directly link to — Karen Hube’s rather offensive analysis of what it... More

The Big, and Little, Mortgage-Fraud News

By Felix Salmon   May 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Shahien Nasiripour had a very important scoop yesterday—a set of confidential federal audits has found a pattern of mortgage fraud... More

Too Big To Fail, The Movie

By Felix Salmon   May 12, 2011 at 08:41 AM

Over the weekend I watched the HBO movie version of Too Big To Fail, and I talked to Andrew... More

Diving Down into “The Story So Far”

And coming up with the parts you need to read

By Felix Salmon   May 10, 2011 at 12:02 AM

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, in its worthy manner, has come out with a 146-page report entitled "The... More

ProPublica and How to Support Investigative Journalism

By Felix Salmon   Apr 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Paul Steiger is rightly proud of his latest Pulitzer -- the second for ProPublica in as many years. He's right,... More