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Audit Notes: ‘makers and takers’ edition
Romney’s “47 percent” comment continues to reverberate
By Ryan Chittum Sep 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
A big part of the problem with Mitt Romney's "47 percent" characterization, as I wrote yesterday, is that it uses... More
Mitt Romney and the Lucky Duckies
A gaffe created in the Fox News/WSJ editorial page echo chamber
By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2012 at 03:28 PM
Who are the 47 percent, why were Mitt Romney's comments on them so wrong, and how did Romney come to... More
Audit Notes: News of the World’s thugs, Occupy impact, nonprofit news
Allegations that the paper’s gumshoes broke into houses looking for dirt
By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
What could go wrong when a Murdoch newspaper employs axe-murder suspects? A lot, as we've already seen, and it may... More
The Post goes south on NAFTA
The paper ignores or glosses over Mexico trade’s effects on the US
By Ryan Chittum Sep 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post rah-rah story on trade with Mexico last week left out key context for its American readers. The... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg eyes CMBS, newspaper optimism, Weil on bank books
Signs of froth return to commercial real estate lending
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News is good to keep an eye on the securitization market for early signs of froth. It reports that... More
The press sours a bit on Apple
The company’s control of its narrative is loosened by leaks
By Ryan Chittum Sep 13, 2012 at 06:26 PM
One of my favorite sports as a critic is watching how the press liveblogs the periodic gadget announcements that Apple... More
Audit Notes: NYT and Bain, Dimon’s Comp Committee, 401(k)s
Too much focus on Romney, who left the company years before the alleged collusion
By Ryan Chittum Sep 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM
It's great that The New York Times is going aggressively after court documents in a big private-equity bid-rigging lawsuit, filing... More
Journal Register opens the kimono a bit
CEO John Paton gives us some hard numbers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
One of my biggest criticisms of Journal Register Company and Digital First Media has been how it has cherry-picked financial... More
Audit Notes: Amazon and antitrust, techspeak, ‘Peter Drucker with an Afro’
The DOJ’s ebook settlement could enable anticompetitive behavior
By Ryan Chittum Sep 12, 2012 at 01:33 AM
The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik gets it on Amazon and the Justice Department's seriously misguided antitrust lawsuit against book... More
Audit Notes: Bain’s LBOs, Star Tribune, Wolff on JRC
ProPublica reports that the “turnaround artist” narrative is off
By Ryan Chittum Sep 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger looks at Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, calling into question the narrative that it was largely about... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Live, scot free, Martin Feldstein
Lucrative video streams soar at the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Sep 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray says the paper's WSJ Live video efforts are growing at a torrid... More
The Facebook blame game
The NYT’s Sorkin shifts focus from the bankers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2012 at 02:38 AM
Like Jon Weil, I've got little sympathy for the folks who speculated on Facebook at $38, thinking it would double... More
Audit Notes: Journal Register, Clinton and ‘can’t find workers,’ AP flop
The bankrupt company’s owner isn’t doing well itself
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Read Martin Langeveld's super-sharp take for the Nieman Lab on what the Journal Register bankruptcy means and what might be... More
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again
Takeaways for the newspaper business
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday, John Paton announced that Journal Register Company is filing for bankruptcy for the second time in three years. That’s... More
Audit Notes: NYT yacht coverage, Diluted tech stocks, CNBC
How stock options obscure what companies like Facebook are really worth
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times takes a tough look at a pressing issue in our struggling economy: "How to Keep Yachting... More
Audit Notes: blame the borrowers, Walmart cashiers, newspaper prices
The Democratic Party platform on mortgage issues
By Ryan Chittum Sep 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Henry Blodget somehow thinks that "everyone has spent the last five years trying to blame the housing crash on every... More
The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked
Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:07 AM
The Wall Street Journal's coverage of Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday, which was packed with one... More
Audit Notes: Wall Street sheriffs, preprints, Globalization and workers
Supposedly in a “race to investigate, indict, subpoena and fine”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal would have you believe Wall Street is running scared from all the financial cops in New... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s hacking scandal, revolving door, Obama’s AMA
Two more arrests, including one for computer hacking
By Ryan Chittum Aug 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM
As Rupert Murdoch tells the world to go see Dinesh D'Souza's "scary" 2016 propaganda (read my 2010 takes on the... More
CNBC: kid gloves for bankers, boxing gloves for bank critics
Interviews with Barofsky, Spitzer, and Krugman underscore the network’s capture
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 12:13 PM
We're all for aggressively skeptical interviewing—I've often wished we could import Brits to do our presidential interviews, for instance. But... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
