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Audit Notes: New Orleans newspaper intrigue, NYT numbers, CNET
The Manships are in talks about selling The Advocate
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Baton Rouge's Manship family threw a wrench in the Newhouses' plans for the Times-Picayune when they launched a daily New... More
Financial crisis bodies are still surfacing
Jesse Eisinger on a Morgan Stanley CDO scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
If you think, going on six years after the onset of the financial crisis, that we've learned about all we're... More
The press underplays the Geithner leak
A Fed president claims the now-Treasury Secretary gave inside information to Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Of all the things we expected to see in the 2007 Federal Reserve meeting transcripts released last week, Tim Geithner... More
Audit Notes: mixed signals, Sam Zell’s phony equity, power shift
The Seattle Times flubs an inflation report
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Deflation has set in in the Seattle area, according to a misleading Seattle Times story: This is awfully confusing. The... More
Amazon takes a tax hit, finally
Reuters reports early signs that collecting sales taxes affected the company’s sales
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters reports that Amazon's fourth quarter results may take a hit from new laws that force it to collect sales... More
Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York
In Oneida, the paper moves to three days a week, following the Post-Standard
By Ryan Chittum Jan 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The three-day-a-week newspaper model pioneered by Advance Publications in Michigan is now spreading to Digital First Media. The company will... More
Reuters’s OKC gusher
Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
By Ryan Chittum Jan 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters's reporting on Oklahoma natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy was some of the best corporate journalism of last year. Its... More
Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime
Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
By Ryan Chittum Jan 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The contrast between how aggressively authorities have gone after inside-trading hedge fund impresarios and how softly they've tiptoed around Wall... More
CBS’s CNET Fiasco
An egregious breach of editorial dependence damages its credibility
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Last week, CNET picked Dish Network's Hopper with Sling, a DVR that can skip ads even more efficiently than other... More
Audit Notes: The Big Lie of the crisis, Hubbard and Mozilo, institutions
The attempts to muddy the historical record continue
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Jesse Eisinger has a good New York Times column skewering Edward Pinto, the American Enterprise Institute economist behind much of... More
Geithner gets his exit hagiography
Soft Washington Post and New York Times coverage of the departing Treasury secretary
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2013 at 03:29 PM
Speaking of hagiography, the Washington Post's Neil Irwin gives Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner his own parting kiss. This line sums... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Libor scoop, Business Insider, reader revenue
Deutsche Bank made big money betting on the rigged rate
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal posts an interesting page-one report on Deutsche Bank and the big profits it made betting on... More
The Times gives the SEC’s Khuzami a parting kiss
The enforcement chief still gets the “new sheriff in town” treatment
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's at least easy to understand the logic, however icky, of the beat sweetener, that staple of news coverage that... More
Audit Notes: NYT on AIG, subsidizing fraud, free logic
Probably a bit hyped
By Ryan Chittum Jan 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times scoops that AIG, recipient of a $180 billion bailout from taxpayers, will meet today to hear... More
Audit Notes: Gore gorges, 60 Minutes in New Orleans, Wired
The former vice president twists arms and cashes in on Current TV
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Read Brian Stelter's excellent coverage in The New York Times of Al Gore's role in building and selling Current TV:... More
Best of 2012: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his favorite posts of the year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 28, 2012 at 05:33 PM
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course — Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry. CNBC:... More
Must-reads of 2012: business
By Ryan Chittum Dec 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Vast Mexico Bribery Case... More
The Louisiana newspaper war
The Advocate picks up 23,500 readers in less than three months in New Orleans
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Baton Rouge Advocate is making a run at a weakened Times-Picayune in New Orleans. The paper, which started a... More
Hearst buckles under advertiser pressure
The Times Union caves after reader-response post dinged real estate agents
By Ryan Chittum Dec 19, 2012 at 03:00 PM
It's been a long time since we've seen anything as craven as the Albany Times-Union's capitulation to real estate agents... More
Audit Notes: Instaflim-flam, off the Hamster Wheel, Hulu
The New York Times raises questions about a CEO’s sworn testimony
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times's Nick Bilton reports that Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom appears to have misled regulators asking about Facebook's... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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?”
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.
