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Audit Interview: Jack Dolan
“I didn’t see anybody else do what we did, and I’m absolutely certain they could have.”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 19, 2008 at 09:06 AM
We at The Audit have called on the press to do more reporting on the underbelly of the mortgage industry,... More
“With Its Heart Still Beating”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 19, 2008 at 08:38 AM
The Journal has an excellent front-page "leder" today on the other rich-dude fraud of the moment: Marc Dreier, who owned... More
Not-So-Sticky Wages at FedEx
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Felix Salmon of Portfolio makes a good catch today about "sticky wages", which David Leonhardt of the Times wrote about... More
NYT Putting It All Together on Wall Street Pay
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2008 at 11:10 AM
The NYT is just superb with its Wall Street-compensation story today: While top executives received the biggest bonuses, what is... More
More on Madoff from the Times
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2008 at 09:49 AM
The Times adds some good reporting about Madoff, too. First of all, it says that he's not going to the... More
Journal on Top with Madoff/SEC Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2008 at 08:39 AM
The Journal is besting its rivals on the Madoff story. Today it has a super page-one story that reveals that... More
WSJ Looks Into the Woes at Calpers
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 02:23 PM
The Journal has a good story looking at the troubles at Calpers, the California state-pension system that's one of the... More
Bloomberg Stays on AIG
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Bloomberg reports that more questions are being raised about AIG's books. It says it may cost the insurer another $30... More
The Bright Side of Deflation, Part Two
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 09:10 AM
David Leonhardt of The New York Times also writes about falling prices today: The cost of fruits, vegetables, clothing and... More
The Bright Side of Deflation
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 08:33 AM
David Lazarus has a nice column about wage stagnation in the Los Angeles Times, using the peg of falling prices... More
A CDO Story for the Rest of Us
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM
The Washington Post goes long with a look at how the CDO market went bust. I know, I know. You... More
WaPo’s Wrong Spin on Retail
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Here's an example of how not to write an economy story. The Washington Post this weekend reported on retail sales... More
GM Pencils, Part Two
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2008 at 08:37 AM
A reader, David Baggot, emailed me to point out that the Times story I liked yesterday about Detroit's extreme cost... More
Detroit Now Reduced to Using Regular Pencils
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM
The Times has some amusing-if-pathetic details in its story on how the Big Three are cutting back to the bare... More
MediaNews’ Busted Newspaper Bets
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 09:50 AM
The Times has a nice story on Dean Singleton's MediaNews and the problems it's facing in this atrocious time for... More
Bloomberg on Madoff’s Auditor
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 09:08 AM
Bloomberg does some basic legwork on the Bernard Madoff scandal and gets some great color out of it. One of... More
WaPo: Bailout’s Pay Limits May Be Moot
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 08:34 AM
The Washington Post has a nice scoop today that the executive-pay provisions of the bailout law are basically unenforceable. But... More
WSJ: Tax-Lite Companies Want Tax-Heavy Bailouts
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM
The Journal does some good work in looking at some of the pigs lined up at the $700 billion TARP... More
Fed Slaps Down Bloomberg FOIA
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Bloomberg keeps the heat on the Federal Reserve to disclose to whom it's given $2 trillion in loans. The news... More
Audit Interview: Michael Hudson
“We’re in a battle now to define what happened.”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 09:12 AM
Lots of people have asked why the press didn't tell us loudly enough that the subprime train was a-comin'. But... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
