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Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits
The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday.... More
Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment
The former GE CEO, still a business press hero
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Former GE CEO Jack Welch made waves last week claiming—with zero evidence—that the Obama administration manipulated the unemployment report that... More
Bleacher Report and the race to the bottom
SF Weekly rips Turner Broadcasting’s nearly $200 million purchase
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2012 at 01:32 PM
Bleacher Report is a sort of Demand Media of sports, a content farm engineered to get search engine visits with... More
Audit Notes: Romney and taxes, prison phone racket, WSJ
The Atlantic eyes the Republican’s corporate tax plan
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Nobody can figure out what exactly Mitt Romney wants to do with taxes. His plan is mathematically impossible, and Wednesday... More
Audit Notes: Mansion, inequality and the crash, FT on Schneiderman
By Ryan Chittum Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The business press continues to roll out the 0.1 percent porn. Now it's The Wall Street Journal launching a new... More
Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom
A columnist’s misleading economic history
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:40 PM
Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush... More
Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value
The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death and... More
Romney’s gift to reporters
A Bloomberg investigation details yet another aspect of the candidate’s tax avoidance
By Ryan Chittum Oct 2, 2012 at 07:50 AM
The decision by Republicans to run a super-wealthy former financier for president four years into a serious economic downturn triggered... More
Audit Notes: wincing with WSJ, Golden Dawn, energy-market manipulation
Treasury candidates and Journal art
By Ryan Chittum Oct 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama is trying to fire up the base with trial balloons on who... More
Audit Notes: inside the Fed, few use Twitter, entitled ‘job creators’
By Ryan Chittum Oct 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal takes us inside how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke convinced his colleagues to go all in on... More
Billionaires made from scratch? Hardly
Forbes spins a bogus Horatio Alger story about its 400 richest list
By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Forbes touts its annual list of the 400 richest U.S. billionaires as evidence "that the American dream is still... More
Audit Notes: NYT’s Web bonanza, Doctor on paywalls, capital gains taxes
The paper sells its stake in a jobs site for a stunning profit
By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2012 at 12:46 AM
The New York Times Company has sold its stake in the Indeed.com jobs site for $100 million profit, which ain't... More
Smartphone money
The Journal on how phones are weighing more on family budgets
By Ryan Chittum Sep 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal is good to take a look at how smartphone bills are eating up a chunk of... More
The capital gains preference
Why Mitt Romney’s taxes are so low and whether economics justifies it
By Ryan Chittum Sep 26, 2012 at 07:26 AM
Forbes, as Joe Nocera points out this morning, thinks that its list of the 400 richest US billionaires "instills confidence... More
Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay
The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along
By Ryan Chittum Sep 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Times-Picayune plans to move into Baton Rouge to hit back at the Advocate's move into New Orleans. But publisher... More
Audit Notes: Digital First takedown, here comes the WSJ, debt and taxes
The Awl roughs up Journal Register’s flagship paper
By Ryan Chittum Sep 24, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Brett Sokol, writes one of the most brutal piece of media criticism I've read in a long time. He examines... More
The Newhouses strike back
The Times-Picayune goes to war with the encroaching Baton Rouge Advocate
By Ryan Chittum Sep 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
After Advance Publications announced it would gut the still-profitable New Orleans Times-Picayune's newsroom and slash publication to three days a... More
The inflation bugaboo, back again for QE3
Scare stories on an expected uptick in price expectations
By Ryan Chittum Sep 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
If you've followed the financial press or have seen Ron Paul talk in the last few years, you've heard all... More
Audit Notes: high-frequency trading, Ann Arbor news, SEC access
A whistleblower sparks a growing investigation, reports the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Sep 20, 2012 at 02:25 AM
The Wall Street Journal has a good page-one story and scoop on a high-frequency trader turned whistleblower whose complaint has... More
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
