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Audit Notes: McKenna on Lowenstein; U.S., Island Rogue; Stat of the Day
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 06:32 PM
Francine McKenna over at Forbes takes a swing at Roger Lowenstein's "Wall Street: Not Guilty" piece (see my take... More
WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More
Lowenstein Lets Wall Street Off the Hook
Not so fast.
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2011 at 02:37 PM
Roger Lowenstein has a big piece out in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, an apology for Wall Street—duly celebrated by The New York... More
Audit Notes: WSJ on Selling Access, Wall Street-Style; Yanked; Small Paywalls
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2011 at 08:25 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story on how Wall Street gives hedge funds access to key... More
Audit Notes: WSJ’s Deceptive Edits, NYT Glows for Bharara, Cohan Glowers
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2011 at 07:50 PM
Jon Chait and Kevin Drum team up for a nifty demolition of that Wall Street Journal editorial page deception I... More
Now It’s the NYT’s Turn to Take On Trump Inc.
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times took a good look at Donald Trump's business empire and how he built it... More
Audit Notes: Slick Politics, Greece’s Red Flag, What Caused Oil’s Tumble?
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 08:35 PM
I noted a Huffington Post story the other day reporting that removing drilling bans wouldn't really affect the price of... More
An FCC Commissioner’s Brazen Dash Through the Revolving Door
Buried by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 01:33 PM
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News show some terrible news judgment today, burying news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell... More
Microsoft-Skype Gets Bubble-Era Hype from the Times (UPDATED)
The Journal and FT bring much-needed skepticism about the deal
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2011 at 08:22 PM
The New York Times goes A1 with a breathless second-day story that shows some of the perils of deal reporting.... More
L.A. Times Examines Trump’s Gold-Plated Corporate Welfare
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2011 at 02:49 PM
How do you handle covering a candidacy that's primarily a publicity stunt by a crazed ego and presshound—one with approximately... More
Audit Notes: “People Love It,” The New Nocera, NYT Parody Flop
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2011 at 09:05 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column on a panel of top financiers discussing financial reform and too big to... More
Race to the Bottom
A Times story illustrates a peril that is a virtue to some
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2011 at 04:08 PM
The New York Times gave this piece as big a play as you'll see a non-news story get yesterday, going... More
U.S. Oil Is Limited and Fungible, the HuffPost Reports
By Ryan Chittum May 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM
The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff has a good piece of reporting on the potential impact of a bill the House... More
Audit Notes: UBS Fraud, Stevie Cohen, Bankers 4 Liz Warren!
By Ryan Chittum May 6, 2011 at 04:30 PM
So a giant Swiss bank defrauds American taxpayers. It bid-rigs the muni-bond derivatives market. It pays kickbacks and bribes. The... More
Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal
Two stories cover the political, police, and press angles on the News Corp. coverup
By Ryan Chittum May 6, 2011 at 09:49 AM
If you haven't followed the growing scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it's worth sitting down with Sarah Ellison's piece... More
Audit Notes: CEO Porn; Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan; Sbarro, Cooked
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2011 at 09:08 PM
Gary Weiss says the tarnishing of Warren Buffett is a useful moment for the press to stand back and quit... More
Old-School Journal Leder Spotted in the Wild
The paper finds greenwashing in the jungle by Estée Lauder
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2011 at 02:19 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a superb page-one story today about greenwashing—the reality behind an American company's marketing of an... More
Audit Notes: Globalization and Corporate Crime, Capital Gains, Auto Correct
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2011 at 07:23 PM
— Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs is riled up these days. He has an interesting piece on how and why corporate crime... More
The Regulators on the Bus
A Times story shows the resources gap between regulators and Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM
We've wondered often just what it is that makes our financial regulators so toothless in the wake of the widespread... More
Audit Notes: Levin-Coburn Referrals; Falling Dollar, Rising Exports; Amazon Watch
By Ryan Chittum May 3, 2011 at 08:12 PM
Bloomberg reports that Senators Carl Levin and Tom Coburn have formally referred their bipartisan investigation of the financial crisis, and... 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.
