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Going Beyond Glass-Steagall II
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 10:17 AM
John McCain is getting all mavericky again. He's now on board for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the breakup of... More
Thursday Links: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Fan/Fred, Tablets
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 07:51 PM
I've suggested this for a good while now, only half in jest, and now The Miami Herald is doing it:... More
More on Why We Won’t Tax Banker Bonuses
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Nobody loves a critic, they say, and from my experience at The Audit it's mostly true. So I love it... More
Deficit Reduction and Windfall Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM
There a number of reasons for instituting a windfall tax on bankers, and they've been most ably spelled out by... More
Wednesday Links: SEC and CDOs, Meyerson, Wasted Crisis
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 06:49 PM
Here's more ammo for the just-blow-up-the-SEC-and-start-again crowd: NPR's Planet Money and ProPublica report on a questionnaire sent to CDO market... More
WaPo on (Another) U.S. Giveaway to Citi
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 03:44 PM
(UPDATE: I originally said in the headline and lede that the Post had a scoop here. That's not right. The... More
Bloomberg Tough on Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Bloomberg takes a good look at the fading chance to anything meaningful to reform the financial system, noting that "Two... More
WSJ Excels on Retirement Risk for Execs, Employees
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM
I love this Wall Street Journal story this morning on how CEOs, despite their rich paydays, often get automatic gains... More
Monday Links: Banks Winning, Volcker’s ATM, TARP Paybacks
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 06:23 PM
This is a really solid Bloomberg story on lobbying and how the bank lobby has really won, even if new... More
Mark Pittman, In His Own Words, On Camera
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 03:12 PM
You've read quite a bit by the late Mark Pittman of Bloomberg. You've read quite a bit about him here... More
Carr on the Journal’s News Pages Moving Right
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 10:22 AM
David Carr has a good column about the rightward tilt of Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal, which before he took... More
Friday Links: Goldman and AIG, Bernie’s Life, Why a Windfall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a major story tonight, presumably slated for page one of tomorrow's paper, showing that Goldman... More
Early Results from the Newsday Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 06:02 PM
It's no surprise that Newsday's Web traffic declined after it put up a paywall. What is surprising is how it... More
WSJ Follows the Loopholes on Regulation Bill
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 05:21 PM
The Journal found a good angle for its curtain-raising story on the House financial-regulation vote today. The paper digs into... More
Overplaying Goldman’s Bonus Move
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) is making some baby steps on pay, but the press way overplays what is essentially... More
Thursday Links: Sorkin, Rosie, Ginnie Mae
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin sounds better notes on The Daily Show than he does in most of his own columns. "The... More
McClatchy Takes on the SEC’s “Too Big to Punish”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2009 at 04:42 PM
McClatchy continues its fine recent watchdog work with a package looking at the SEC's slap-on-the-wrist regime. It's a smart new... More
The UK Windfall-Tax Bombshell’s Second Day
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2009 at 10:32 AM
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times go A1 with second-day(ish) stories on Britain's bold bid to slap a... More
Wednesday Links: Lost Docs, No-Bid Bonds, Ex-Im
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2009 at 06:35 PM
ProPublica pushes back against the idea, furthered by a recent New York Times column, that the administration's loan-modification program is... More
The FT’s Wolf Highlights the Chinese Problem
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2009 at 03:42 PM
The Financial Times's Martin Wolf zeroes in on one of the critical economic problems that led to the credit crisis... 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.
