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Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task
The Post’s ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry... More
Apples and oranges on Google and publishers
Print performance is bad enough without putting a thumb on the scale
By Ryan Chittum Nov 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Slate tells us that "Google ad revenue tops entire US print media industry" in the first six months of the... More
Audit Notes: WaPo on the Bain thing, deadbeat Forbes, hamster wheel
The Post’s revealing slip-up on the definition of swift-boating
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 08:06 PM
The Washington Post apparently doesn't understand just how toxic Wall Street and its even more rapacious cousin, private equity—not popular... More
Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus
JPMorgan CEO takes to CNBC for consolation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly... More
Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive
First-term bull market goes unmentioned after a November 7 stock dip
By Ryan Chittum Nov 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The stock market dive the day after President Obama was re-elected, dropping 320 points, or 2.4 percent. The Drudge Report,... More
Audit Notes: low-info billionaires, Trump the taker, Elizabeth Warren
Money apparently can’t buy a firm grip on reality
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
One of the things this election proved conclusively is that even billionaires can be low-information voters. Here's Bloomberg BusinessWeek on... More
WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign
A too-savvy take and flawed assumptions undermine some interesting reporting
By Ryan Chittum Nov 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal fronts an interesting but seriously flawed story this morning headlined "How Race Slipped Away From Romney."... More
Audit Notes: FT denies Bloomberg report, Drudge stats, financialization
Misleading with bogus statistics
By Ryan Chittum Nov 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News reports that Pearson is considering putting the Financial Times up for sale, as Michael Wolff predicted a month... More
Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists
French publishing’s online revenues make the Americans look good
By Ryan Chittum Nov 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This New York Times story is nice on the coming attempt in Europe to get Google to pay content providers... More
A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack
The wire’s poorly worded story is misread
By Ryan Chittum Nov 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mitt Romney's gotten in hot water with the nation's burgeoning horde of fact checkers by asserting that Jeep "is thinking... More
Bloomberg digs up more on Romney’s tax avoidance
This loophole used the Mormon church’s tax-exempt status to defer bills
By Ryan Chittum Oct 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns beyond two years in which he was already actively campaigning for president, and... More
The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman
CNBC’s Becky Quick thinks, wrongly, the economist is alone in debunking “fiscal crisis”
By Ryan Chittum Oct 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This summer, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went on CNBC to talk about his book and ended up getting... More
Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity
WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven’t pulled away from everyone else
By Ryan Chittum Oct 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Republic's Timothy Noah and The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien demolish a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kevin "Dow 36,000"... More
The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT
Digital subs keep a weak earnings report from turning into a disastrous one
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM
New York Times Company shares plummeted Thursday as ad revenues were worse than expected, pushing down profits from a year... More
Audit Notes: NYT scoop, Freddie’s anti-stimulus, Wired on making stuff
Riches for the family of a top Chinese official
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times David Barboza gets a huge scoop on corruption in China, reporting that the family of the... More
Audit Notes: dethroning DeMarco, the cult of disruption, China trade
The FT reports Obama plans a big housing policy change if re-elected
By Ryan Chittum Oct 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Financial Times's Shahien Nasiripour reports that the Obama administration is quietly telling activists that it will replace Fannie Mae/Freddie... More
Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags
Not all is dark for the industry
By Ryan Chittum Oct 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for... More
Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith
An excellent personal-finance story from the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
What would Social Security coverage look like if the press covered it more like personal finance reporters cover IRAs and... More
Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch
The NYT looks at the insider/outsider roles of Anita Dunn
By Ryan Chittum Oct 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times had an excellent story this weekend on Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who's got one foot... More
A CEO’s high-flying standards
Bloomberg reports on Abercrombie & Fitch’s Michael Jeffries
By Ryan Chittum Oct 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
We've seen $87,000 rugs and $6,000 shower curtains. But this fascinating Bloomberg story on Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO Michael Jeffries... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
