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Housing Columnist Hasn’t Learned from the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Mar 10, 2009 at 08:41 AM
Can you spot the problem here? ...would you sell the rights to future appreciation to an investor who also is... More
Working the AIG Beat
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2009 at 04:05 PM
The Journal's good scoop this weekend on the AIG counterparties is somewhat furthered today by Fortune's Carol Loomis. And now... More
NPR, Starkman on the Pre-Crisis Press Coverage
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2009 at 09:50 AM
David Folkenflik of NPR looked this morning at how the media performed in the runup to the crisis, and The... More
Laughing Down the Prophets
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2009 at 09:30 AM
I ran across this clip last week, and think it's a pretty eye-opening example of how bears and outliers are... More
Bloomberg Looks at Merrill’s $34 Million Man
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2009 at 08:40 AM
Bloomberg keeps the Andrea Orcel story alive with a nice piece today. Orcel is the Merrill Lynch banker who took... More
WSJ Exposes Corruption at the FDA
By Ryan Chittum Mar 6, 2009 at 04:23 PM
The Journal on page one today shines a bright light on some shady doings at the FDA, finding that Democratic... More
It’s Obama’s Bear Market, Says Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Mar 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM
We've seen a meme spreading like a fungus in the press, mostly on the editorial/analysis/commentator side so far, blaming Barack... More
Transparency for AIG Gets a Boost
By Ryan Chittum Mar 6, 2009 at 08:55 AM
Lawmakers are finally getting seriously ticked off at the Federal Reserve for concealing who is really benefiting from the bailout... More
Remains of the Day
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2009 at 08:11 PM
-- A couple of professors in an NYT op-ed make a convincing case that the Obama/Geithner housing bailout is doomed... More
Journal Writes, Journal Gets Results
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2009 at 04:02 PM
It was just yesterday that we saw the WSJ's impressive effort tracking down the bonus babies at Merrill Lynch, who... More
The Daily Show Eviscerates Santelli and CNBC
Criticism of both lands bruising blows
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM
In the annals of business-press criticism, we are humbled to have to admit that there may have never been anything... More
Bloomberg Finds Conflicts of Interest in Debtland
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2009 at 08:57 AM
Bloomberg News is excellent this morning looking at yet another problem caused by the giant, unregulated credit-default swaps market. First... More
False Balance in the Times
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2009 at 09:51 PM
This unfortunate lede mars an otherwise solid story in the NYT today on how former Countrywide executives are now snatching... More
NYT Charts the Recession
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2009 at 01:09 PM
I really like this David Leonhardt column in the Times on who and where the recession is impacting most. It's... More
TARP Carp Is Hardly Convincing
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Daniel Gross over at Slate calls out the banks whining that the TARP billions they took are tying them down.... More
The Journal Outside the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2009 at 08:58 AM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story this morning exposing Merrill Lynch's top earners of 2008. It's another... More
Fortune’s Most Admired Banks
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2009 at 12:16 PM
1. Bank of America. Because you've got to admire a company that apparently makes it through the crisis only to... More
Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2009 at 09:58 AM
CNBC is now scrambling to undo the damage caused by Rick Santelli's outburst and NBC's aggressive promotion of the harangue.... More
AIG and the $19 Trillion
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2009 at 08:54 AM
The Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin has an interesting column based on an AIG document he got hold of that spells... More
ProPublica Advances OTS Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2009 at 03:50 PM
John Reich's tenure at The Office of Thrift Supervision was dismal. We've known that for a while. The Washington Post... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
