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Somebody’s Wrong on Citi
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2008 at 08:25 AM
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both have scoops this morning on what Citi is planning to... More
A Roundup of the Wreckage
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 09:59 AM
With yet another stock-market plunge yesterday, the papers all have their follow stories about the bleakness. Barry Ritholtz over at... More
WSJ: A Novel Tack by Mortgage Firms
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 09:18 AM
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report on mortgage firms slashing troubled borrowers’ principal, rather than foreclosing on them.... More
The Big Three’s PR Disaster
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 08:52 AM
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post twists the knife into the carmaker CEOs, who were busted in Congress yesterday for... More
Cash for Trash
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 08:20 AM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story about which corporate executives made the biggest killings over the last five... More
Steering Away from the Pack
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 12:13 PM
With everybody thinking and writing about the car industry these days, it’s hard to stand out from the pack. But... More
FT Calls Out the Administration on its “Corner”
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 09:38 AM
The Financial Times is appropriately skeptical of Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke and their assertions that "we have... More
How Much “Change”?
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Bloomberg has a nice report on what an Obama administration’s financial and economic policy will look like, noting that Robert... More
Bad News in Commercial Real Estate
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The Journal and Bloomberg report today that two big commercial real estate loans are about to default and yesterday the... More
The Post’s Paulson Puff, Part Two
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 08:20 AM
The Washington Post graces us this morning with part two of its Henry Paulson hero-worship series. I was skeptical yesterday... More
WSJ’s Bank Mod Story Incomplete
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2008 at 10:07 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that even banks that have modified home loans to help struggling borrowers are getting slammed... More
FT on the Other Paulson
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2008 at 09:21 AM
The Financial Times has an interesting piece of news: John Paulson, who’s made many billions of dollars betting against housing... More
LAT on the Flipside of the Housing Bust
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2008 at 09:07 AM
We too often forget that the housing bust is good for a lot of people, namely those who can now... More
Promise and Peril at Tesla
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2008 at 08:53 AM
The Washington Post has an interesting look at Tesla Motors, the startup electric-car company that’s run into trouble recently. It’s... More
The Post’s Paulson Puff
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2008 at 08:29 AM
The Washington Post goes long with yet another Henry Paulson profile. There’s not much new here—add it to the list... More
Subprime Didn’t Have To Be a Dirty Word
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Daniel Gross blows a gaping hole in the argument that borrowers are to blame for the housing bust and subsequent... More
WSJ on Rising Health Costs for Small Biz
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2008 at 09:33 AM
The Journal is good today in writing on how higher health-care costs, exacerbated by the financial crisis, are hitting small... More
Spitzer Reappears
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2008 at 09:19 AM
Eliot Spitzer came out of hiding yesterday to suggest some remedies for Wall Street. Good for the Washington Post for... More
WSJ Misses a Big Part of Goldman Story
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2008 at 08:58 AM
The Journal puts the Goldman bonus news—its top seven executives aren’t taking one—on page one. The decision at Goldman doesn't... More
The Times on Phil Gramm’s Folly
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2008 at 08:22 AM
The New York Times takes an in-depth look at the discredited former senator, current UBS banker/lobbyist, and deregulator extraordinaire Phil... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
