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The Post’s Misleading Deflation Number
By Ryan Chittum Aug 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I hate it when I see numbers reported without necessary context. A Washington Post story today on the economy reports... More
WaPo Delivers a Much-Needed “Wait a Second”
The economy faces a long, hard path to any real recovery
By Ryan Chittum Aug 18, 2009 at 02:13 PM
With all the positive talk about the economy in the press over the last couple of months, you'd think happy... More
WSJ Back to the Backdating Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 18, 2009 at 09:52 AM
The Wall Street Journal, which broke the massive options-backdating scandal three years ago in one of the great enterprise stories... More
Blowing Up a Feeble Defense of Ben Stein
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2009 at 02:12 PM
You'll recall Ben Stein's ethical lapse last month that got him fired from his plum Sunday business column in The... More
The NYT Looks at the FT’s Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM
The New York Times this morning posts a not-very-good look at the paywall strategy of the Financial Times's Web site.... More
Watching the Elizabeth Warren Coverage
Still not good enough
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2009 at 03:54 PM
I've beefed several times about the press giving Elizabeth Warren and her Congressional Oversight Panel short shrift. So I wanted... More
Sweet or Sour?
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2009 at 09:59 AM
Bloomberg has an investing story today that doesn't tell readers a critical piece of information about the motives of its... More
Weidner: Wall Street, Still Wayward
By Ryan Chittum Aug 13, 2009 at 05:29 PM
David Weidner has a great column today on WSJ.com, but not in the newspaper apparently. Too bad. It deserves wider... More
If Congress Can’t Fend off the Classic-Car Lobby…
Who can it fend off? The LAT on a Cash for Clunkers loophole
By Ryan Chittum Aug 13, 2009 at 08:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting—if a bit late—piece of reporting on the Cash for Clunkers program, which has... More
Investor’s Business Daily Short-Arms Correction
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2009 at 06:24 PM
Investor's Business Daily corrected an embarrassing boo-boo in an editorial and in the process made another huge error. In an... More
NYT Puts Fox Business Spin in Context
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2009 at 02:49 PM
This one's a small thing, but one that too many journalists don't do—probably because we're stereotypically bad at math. Brian... More
The WSJ is Crazy for IG’s
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM
A rash of stories today in The Wall Street Journal about inspector-general reports on government agencies caught my eye this... More
The Judge Gets It Even If the Press Did Not
By Ryan Chittum Aug 11, 2009 at 06:26 PM
Last week I was stumped by the weak press coverage (with one notable exception, at The Wall Street Journal) of... More
More on Credit Card Overlimit Policies
By Ryan Chittum Aug 11, 2009 at 03:56 PM
I wrote earlier today about a Big Money piece on banks' dirty tricks and my own story of falling afoul... More
Half Right on Banks
By Ryan Chittum Aug 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM
This Big Money piece has half its heart in the right place. In one part, it's a tough look at... More
NYT Details Paulson/Goldman Contacts
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2009 at 06:02 PM
A tip of The Audit's hat to some old-fashioned muckraking in The New York Times yesterday. Gretchen Morgenson and Don... More
Gasparino, Arbiter of Cred
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2009 at 04:20 PM
So CNBC's Charlie Gasparino doesn't like The Audit—or at least Audit Big Chief Starkman. The feeling's not exactly mutual. I... More
Hype Machine In High Gear for Journal Jets Story
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM
The Wall Street Journal, which we criticized on Friday for hyping and distorting a story on Congress buying jets, goes... More
WSJ’s Misleading Story on the Congress’s Jet Set
By Ryan Chittum Aug 7, 2009 at 03:22 PM
Let's throw a little water on The Wall Street Journal's page-one scoop that Congress is buying eight private jets for... More
The New York Times Finally Cans Ben Stein
By Ryan Chittum Aug 7, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Gawker scoops that The New York Times has finally given its Sunday Business columnist Ben Stein the ol' heave-ho, after... 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.
