Desks

The Audit Business

• Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
• The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow

The Observatory Science

• The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
• USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’

Campaign Desk Politics & Policy

• What’s the swingiest state of them all? By any measure, Colorado is at the center of the action in 2012
• The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early

Behind the News The Media

• When Big Data is Bad Data The press and standardized testing numbers: a cautionary tale
• The Ford Foundation’s unprecedented grant to The Los Angeles Times And what for-profit/ nonprofit partnerships mean in the age of Sam Zell