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Bloomberg’s Naked-Short Story Shows Stretch Marks
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 04:23 PM
If you want to get a controversy going on Web business sites, bring up naked shorting. So what will happen... More
NPR Shows Why Newspapers Should Charge Online
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 03:24 PM
NPR on why it's canceling $100,000-a-year worth of newspaper subscriptions: NPR is strongly committed to the highest quality of journalism... More
Audit On the Air
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Audit editor Dean Starkman went on KCRW's To the Point show yesterday to talk about AIG. Also appearing: Audit favorite... More
CNBC’s Kudlow: On-Air Lawbreaker?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Larry "Goldilocks" Kudlow just set a dollar bill on fire live on CNBC. I guess he's trying to compete for... More
Newsweek’s Irresponsible AIG Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 09:07 AM
It's easier to slip a weak story past your editors when the subject is leading the news, it's almost universally... More
On My Way to Glenn Beck’s Doom Bunker
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 03:01 PM
I've feared that for a year now that doing the Twitter thing would be the tipping point for me—one that... More
The Times Tweaks the Sage of Omaha
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 01:59 PM
If there's a golden calf in capitalism—and by extension, its press—it's Warren Buffett. Hey, if you're going to have one,... More
Journal Keeps the Heat on Exec Pay
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM
The WSJ provides a nice guided tour of executive pay in 2008, stopping along the way to point out CEO's... More
Leonhardt vs. Sorkin: Outside the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 09:10 AM
Yesterday, the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote a dog of a column arguing that AIG should get to keep its... More
WSJ’s Berman Calls Out the LBO’s
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2009 at 05:22 PM
A tip of the hat to the Journal's Dennis Berman for his column today on the private-equity industry. Remember them?... More
Time: CNBC Is Us (on Steroids)
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM
My colleague Liz Cox Barrett points to a really good piece by James Poniewozik in Time on the meaning of... More
Sorkin: Contracts Sacrosanct, Except When They’re Not
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM
An astute reader writes to point out that the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin wasn't all for the sacrosanctity of contracts... More
Sorkin and the Straw Man
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2009 at 09:10 AM
A big thumbs down to the Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin for his poorly reasoned column this morning on why we... More
“Mean Street,” Indeed
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2009 at 01:46 PM
We've been talking a lot about the bubble lately. Not that bubble: This bubble: So, I couldn't let this go... More
Starkman on The NewsHour
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Audit chieftain Dean Starkman made an appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on Friday to discuss the performance of... More
The Press Wins One on AIG
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2009 at 08:48 AM
After six months, we finally know who got backdoor bailouts from the AIG rescue, and how much they got—$105 billion,... More
Cramer v. Stewart Coverage Largely Misses
The show capped a signal moment in the crisis
By Ryan Chittum Mar 13, 2009 at 04:41 PM
There's not much to say about Cramer v. Stewart that hasn't already been said elsewhere. It seems everyone, everywhere is... More
ProPublica Blogs the Stimulus
By Ryan Chittum Mar 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM
I really like this idea from the non-profit investigative-journalism folks at ProPublica: Bird-dog the hundreds of billions of dollars in... More
Bloomberg’s Weil Blows Up Moody’s
By Ryan Chittum Mar 13, 2009 at 08:49 AM
Jonathan Weil has a must-read column over at Bloomberg on Moody's, the credit-ratings giant that is one of the biggest... More
Live From the Madoff Trial: A Gas Run
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM
The Journal has a mega-blowout headline on its Web site on the Madoff guilty plea. But when I clicked the... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
