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Audit Notes: Ignoring Libor, Barron’s, rich kids and TV news
ABC and NBC evening newscasts ignore the huge scandal in its first two weeks
By Ryan Chittum Jul 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple points to Media Matters research that shows ABC's and NBC's nightly newscasts completely ignored the... More
More on NPR and manufactured quotes
Why lobbyist-provided rent-a-quotes subvert the news
By Ryan Chittum Jul 18, 2012 at 04:38 PM
NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos (who teaches here at Columbia) takes a look at the network's poor showing with manufacturing sources... More
Audit Notes: Too big to fail football, Guardian digital numbers, WaPo
Penn State and the ramifications of a possible NCAA death penalty
By Ryan Chittum Jul 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It's not just the banks. Now elite college football programs are too big to fail, as well. Here's Bloomberg News... More
The WSJ Editorial Page and the Libor scandal
Blaming everybody but the bankers
By Ryan Chittum Jul 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
When wrongdoing by Big Business is in the news, you can usually count on the WSJ editorial page to do... More
Audit Notes: Statute of limitations, whither The Daily, Romney’s taxes
The WSJ on how the clock may (or may not) be running out on the SEC
By Ryan Chittum Jul 17, 2012 at 01:55 AM
The Wall Street Journal is good to keep an eye on the statutes of limitation clocks that are running out... More
Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Whale, rent-a-quotes, shark videos
By Ryan Chittum Jul 13, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This New York Times story on JPMorgan's regulators is not well edited, but it has some interesting reporting: At one... More
The Goldman Sachs of online retail
The FT with a good look at Amazon’s Marketplace platform
By Ryan Chittum Jul 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Financial Times is running a good series this week on Amazon, one of the country's most fascinating and frustrating... More
Audit Notes: Reuters on Chesapeake, Krugman on CNBC, Waldman on banks
The wire uncovers more emails showing potential collusion between competitors
By Ryan Chittum Jul 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues its tremendous investigation into natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon. Brian Grow and Joshua... More
Audit Notes: The Fed and The Economist on Libor, Goldman and Louisville
By Ryan Chittum Jul 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters's Carrick Mollenkamp, who broke the Libor scandal open in 2008 with Mark Whitehouse when they were at The Wall... More
Manufactured quotes
News organizations fail to disclose “regular Joe” businessmen’s lobbying ties
By Ryan Chittum Jul 10, 2012 at 06:06 PM
Two weeks ago The New York Times wheeled out that old chestnut of Great Recession-era economic reporting: Companies can't find... More
Audit Notes: Daily Planet holds up, record collapse, presidential fundraising
The Onion on the least believable part of Superman comics
By Ryan Chittum Jul 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This Onion article on the outdated Daily Planet is spot on: Frustrated fans of the Superman comic book said Monday... More
Audit Notes: NYT on JPM, The Guardian’s future, Big Lie of the crisis
Jamie Dimon’s bank pressured brokers to steer clients into its own funds
By Ryan Chittum Jul 7, 2012 at 12:44 AM
The New York Times reports that JPMorgan Chase pressured its brokers to steer its retail clients into its own investment... More
The Economist on the Libor scandal
What happened and why it matters
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 02:08 PM
If you haven't paid much attention yet to the Libor scandal, this Economist piece will get you caught up quickly.... More
Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes
Stephen Moore on how “the greens” supposedly want to plunge America into darkness
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life... More
Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat
Internal emails show companies scheming to lower bids on drilling rights
By Ryan Chittum Jul 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues to draw a bead on Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, whose scalp it will be claiming... More
Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work
The FT comes out in favor of hiving off investment banks
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 08:04 PM
This is important: The Financial Times editorial page comes out in favor of a Glass-Steagall II that would once again... More
Audit Notes: Spain’s Dilemma, Brits’ outrage on Libor, Audit Radio
Martin Wolf on how the country’s woes show the roots of the euro crisis
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 01:32 AM
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has an excellent blog post pointing out how wrong Germany and Co. are about... More
Inflating the regulatory state
TSA and border security account for almost all the increase in regulatory staff since 1980
By Ryan Chittum Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
A Bloomberg News story last week on how the folks who oversee the regulators are overmatched these days raises a... More
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace
Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM
CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More
Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their... 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.
