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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
WSJ Column Raises Ethics Issues
By Felix Salmon Apr 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Last week, Ira Stoll took issue with Dennis Berman's column on SharesPost and SecondMarket, on the grounds that Berman lied... More
How Wall Street Elites Read the Business Press
What a story says depends on who exactly is reading it
By Felix Salmon Apr 15, 2011 at 12:02 PM
The Picard complaint against JPMorgan, accusing the bank of being “at the very center “of the Madoff fraud, “and thoroughly... More
A Ridiculous Take on the Mortgage Settlement
By Felix Salmon Apr 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Cheyenne Hopkins of American Banker, who first published the terms of the proposed mortgage servicer settlement in March, has now... More
A Vulture Fund Sob Story
By Felix Salmon Apr 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Matt Wirz probably can’t be held responsible for the headline the WSJ put on his story today — “For Vultures,... More
The Power of Iterative Journalism
NYT, Fortune, and ProPublica on General Electric’s taxes
By Felix Salmon Apr 4, 2011 at 03:41 PM
On March 25, the NYT's David Kocieniewski splashed a bombshell of a story across the front page; its current headline,... More
The NYT Continues Its War on HuffPo
By Felix Salmon Apr 4, 2011 at 09:02 AM
The NYT's declared war on the Huffington Post shows no sign of dissipating, and as ever the new-look NYT ... More
WSJ Unmasks Perfidious Goldman
By Felix Salmon Mar 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM
The WSJ has a great article today about that most fickle and capricious of creatures, the Goldman Sachs investment... More
More on Second Liens
By Felix Salmon Mar 22, 2011 at 02:46 PM
I had a long conversation with Jesse Eisinger on the subject of second liens and the proposed mortgage settlement... More
Bloomberg Keeps Its Documents to Itself
By Felix Salmon Mar 18, 2011 at 04:33 PM
Caleb Newquist has a great post up at Going Concern showing how important it is for news organizations to publish... More
ProPublica and NYT Are Confusing On Second Liens (UPDATED)
By Felix Salmon Mar 17, 2011 at 05:11 PM
Jesse Eisinger has a conspiracy theory about the way that second liens are treated in the proposed mortgage settlement: The... More
The NYT Tilts Toward the Banks on Debit Interchange Fees
By Felix Salmon Mar 8, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Edward Wyatt has a big piece in The New York Times on the banks' last-ditch attempts to weaken the rules... More
The NYT’s Incomplete Article on State Pension Plans
By Felix Salmon Mar 1, 2011 at 03:13 PM
Steven Greenhouse has a long article in today's NYT about an attempt by the states to deal with their "strained"... More
The WSJ’s Peculiar Reporting On GM Credit
By Felix Salmon Feb 28, 2011 at 11:19 AM
GM debt has been through a lot of late. In May 2009, car czar Steve Rattner made a bold and... More
Bloomberg Reveals Citi’s Deceptive Reporting
By Felix Salmon Feb 24, 2011 at 05:00 PM
On February 14, 2008, John Lyons, the examiner in charge of large bank supervision at the OCC, sent Citigroup and... More
JunketSleuth’s FOIA War With the FDIC
Perhaps it’s time for an “openness czar”
By Felix Salmon Feb 24, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Russell Carollo, of Mark Cuban's JunketSleuth, has a great post up today about the way in which the FDIC aggressively... More
Vulture Funds Exposed in Playboy
By Felix Salmon Feb 24, 2011 at 07:30 AM
Playboy has long mixed its girlie pics with serious journalism, but it's not always obvious why. Take the December 2010... More
The History of Austerity
It’s grim—all the way back to Napoleon
By Felix Salmon Feb 23, 2011 at 11:25 AM
One of the best aspects of being a journalist is that you get to talk at length to the most... More
A New Twist on the Wisconsin Story With Gin and Tacos
By Felix Salmon Feb 23, 2011 at 08:53 AM
Ed at Gin and Tacos picked up on a particularly audacious section of the Wisconsin budget-repair bill yesterday: the governor... More
LAT’s Hiltzik Dissects An Outsourcing Fiasco
By Felix Salmon Feb 21, 2011 at 04:08 PM
Michael Hiltzik has a fantastic column on Boeing's outsourcing disasters in the LA Times; it's well worth reading the whole... 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?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
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.
