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WSJ Exposes the New York Fed Chairman
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2009 at 01:57 PM
The Journal fronts a scoop that the chairman of the New York Fed not only held Goldman Sachs shares in... More
Chrysler Cramdown in Context
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2009 at 09:17 AM
If you read the coverage of the Chrysler bankruptcy a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal and The... More
Bloomberg Pushes Hard on Credit-Raters Story
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 04:32 PM
Bloomberg has done a good job keeping the credit raters in the spotlight, and its latest story shines a harsh... More
WSJ’s Free iPhone App: Rupert “Displeased”
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 04:02 PM
I wrote last week that The Wall Street Journal was screwing up by not charging for its swell new iPhone... More
NYT Muni-Bond Story Effects Quick Change
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM
The good Times story on small-town Tennessee losing big on derivatives is getting quick results. The state is planning "revolutionary"... More
The Economy Is Much Worse Than the Numbers Say
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture said a couple of days ago that the abysmal GDP numbers, down 6.1 percent... More
Remember Eminent Domain? The Journal Does
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Good for The Wall Street Journal for putting eminent domain back in the news. We haven't heard much about the... More
CDO Complexity in Context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Thought you were the only one who really doesn't understand collateralized debt obligations or, better yet, CDO-Squareds? Rest easy. No... More
Bloomberg: Schapiro’s FINRA Dumped Debt Early
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2009 at 09:29 AM
Bloomberg has a good scoop on FINRA's, the financial industry's self-regulator, suspiciously well-timed exit from the auction-rated securities market. FINRA... More
The FT, Germany, and the Weimar Republic
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2009 at 04:44 PM
This FT story seems like a reach to me. It reports that Germany is abuzz that the financial crisis resembles... More
WSJ Scoop on Citi’s $100 Million Man
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2009 at 01:41 PM
The Journal has a nice scoop that Citigroup is begging the government to let it pay big bonuses to "key... More
Yet Another Reason to Dislike Securitization
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2009 at 09:20 AM
The Rortybomb blog has an illuminating post on how the mortgage industry used credit scores to replace old-fashioned due diligence—and... More
Bronte Capital with a Major Scoop on Alleged Fraudster
By Ryan Chittum Apr 28, 2009 at 06:12 PM
John Hempton the excellent Aussie blogger who writes Bronte Capital appears to have a blockbuster of a scoop. A Connecticut... More
FDIC’s Pitch to End “Too Big to Fail”
By Ryan Chittum Apr 28, 2009 at 04:52 PM
Is it me or does it seem like FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair is about the only person in Washington who... More
NYT’s GM Lede Is in the Trunk
By Ryan Chittum Apr 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM
The New York Times leads its front page with news of the latest General Motors plan for its future, but... More
SEC Follows Journal’s Ponzi Story
By Ryan Chittum Apr 28, 2009 at 09:07 AM
Remember that awesome Wall Street Journal story a couple of weeks ago on the shady financier Danny Pang? It took... More
NYT, Portfolio Profiles Land a One-Two Punch on Geithner
By Ryan Chittum Apr 27, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Tim Geithner is the subject of two major profiles in recent days. He doesn't come out so well in either... More
Condé Nast Shuts Down Portfolio
By Ryan Chittum Apr 27, 2009 at 12:56 PM
The writing has pretty much been on the wall for Portfolio since the recent news that it had a staggering... More
The Newspaper Death Spiral Accelerates
By Ryan Chittum Apr 27, 2009 at 09:25 AM
If you haven't made your peace with the coming wave of newspaper deaths, now might be a good time. Editor... More
The Journal Just Loves This Obama Flip-Flop
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2009 at 03:38 PM
You know something's up when The Wall Street Journal editorial board gives President Obama "three cheers" for anything. You really... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
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”
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.
