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NY Times Chugs the Dr Pepper
By Ryan Chittum Jun 30, 2009 at 02:23 PM
How can The New York Times be this gullible? The paper writes about Dr Pepper Snapple outsourcing its information technology... More
LAT Raises the “Nexus” Sales-Tax Issue
By Ryan Chittum Jun 30, 2009 at 09:57 AM
The LA Times has an interesting article today on an overlooked aspect of tax policy: The "nexus" exemption for Internet... More
ProPublica, the Post Bring GE Into the Light
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Props to ProPublica and the Washington Post for a joint story on how General Electric has benefited from $74 billion... More
LA Times Soft-Pedals Wired Editor’s Plagiarism
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2009 at 03:13 PM
It's bad enough to write a two-source story about plagiarism. It's worse when the two sources are the plagiarist and... More
NYT Listens in as the Mortgage-Mod Plan Hits a Wall
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43 AM
The New York Times descends into customer-service hell on A1 today, reporting on the effort to modify mortgages under the... More
A Community Reinvestment Act Reader
We still have to debunk this myth?
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Felix Salmon takes John Carney of Clusterstock to task for latching on to the right-wing effort to blame the housing... More
Bartiromo and BizWeek with an Embarrassing Summers Interview
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Maria Bartiromo's BusinessWeek interviews aren't exactly must-read business journalism. But this is ridiculous. What would you ask if you got... More
Journal States the Obvious—In a Good Way
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2009 at 09:37 AM
The Wall Street Journal looks at how the new consumer-protection regulator is likely to make banks less profitable. I like... More
What the WSJ Looked Like in 1930
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2009 at 06:44 PM
Here's a great idea for a business blog. An anonymous somebody is going back through Depression-era Wall Street Journals day... More
Bloomberg Profiles Volcker, Obama’s Outside Insider
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Bloomberg has a welcome, long profile of Paul Volcker, the legendary former Fed chairman who's been shouldered to the background... More
Fortune: Confidence in Banks Falling Again
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2009 at 09:44 AM
Don't look now but market sentiment on the banking industry is falling again. Fortune reports that the cost of insuring... More
Even the Going-Out-of-Business Business Is Suffering
By Ryan Chittum Jun 24, 2009 at 05:51 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a great page-one “ahed” today about one rug merchant who's made a business of going... More
Bloomberg Buys the Discredited Realtor Lobby’s Spin
By Ryan Chittum Jun 24, 2009 at 12:46 PM
You'd think that by now the media would be done with the National Association of Realtors, a discredited organization that... More
Citigroup Keeps on Truckin’ Like It’s 2007
By Ryan Chittum Jun 24, 2009 at 09:40 AM
The New York Times and Financial Times both report that Citigroup is raising salaries by up to half to avoid... More
Footnoted Ferrets Out Legg Mason Foolishness
By Ryan Chittum Jun 23, 2009 at 04:01 PM
The excellent business site Footnoted, run by Michelle Leder, makes a nice catch today on executive compensation. Leder's m.o. is... More
The Journal Overplays Its Harvard Scooplet
By Ryan Chittum Jun 23, 2009 at 02:38 PM
I can't figure out why this Harvard endowment story is on page one of the Journal this morning. Two managers... More
LA Times Superb on Modern-Day Grapes of Wrath
By Ryan Chittum Jun 23, 2009 at 09:53 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a standout story today—one of the best pieces I've read in a long, long time.... More
“Too Big to Fail” Gets Big Play in the NYT
Morgenson, Dash, and Krugman all consider the issue
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2009 at 07:48 PM
I was glad to see three pieces in the The New York Times or on its website this weekend about... More
John Gruber Analyzes Journal Sourcing on (Steve) Jobs
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2009 at 01:51 PM
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a smart analysis of the journalism behind the Journal's big scoop this weekend that... More
WSJ: Hedge Fund Lobbying Soars
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2009 at 09:28 AM
The Journal this morning continues its good watchdog reporting on the lobbying efforts by the business-as-usual crowd. It looks at... 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.
