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Audit Interview: Alan D. Mutter
“We have an enormous number of reporters today, especially at newspapers, who are reporting on the obvious.”
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2009 at 08:36 AM
Alan D. Mutter is a veteran of the ink-stained days who in the two decades since he left as No.... More
WSJ Peeks Under the TARP
By Ryan Chittum Jan 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM
The Journal has some excellent reporting today on TARP and how political influence is playing out in who gets money.... More
Good Scoop by the FT
By Ryan Chittum Jan 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Merrill Lynch paid out about $4 billion in bonuses just days before Bank of America took it over, the Financial... More
Solid Post Reporting on Regulation
By Ryan Chittum Jan 22, 2009 at 08:37 AM
The Washington Post has a very good story this morning on bank regulation. It found that at least thirty banks... More
Roubini: Banks Are Insolvent
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2009 at 01:09 PM
You know things are bad when an assertion like this doesn't seem that surprising at first glance: U.S. financial losses... More
Obama “Prepared” to Take on the Banks Mess?
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM
The most pressing question for the new administration is what to do about the banks, which are again threatening to... More
FT on Newspaper Ownership
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2009 at 08:42 AM
The FT has a confused story this morning on the newspaper industry. Its headline says "Newspapers turn into rich mens’... More
Time Counts the Bush Economic Errors
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2009 at 09:54 AM
Justin Fox at Time hits the right notes in a piece on “Bush's Economic Mistakes”. Fox lists eight big ones,... More
Nationalize the Banks or Just the Losses?
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2009 at 08:21 AM
Paul Krugman's column yesterday deserves not to get lost in the holiday/inauguration shuffle He fires back at the “bad bank”... More
The Press and Steve Jobs
By Ryan Chittum Jan 16, 2009 at 09:25 AM
The controversy over Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health is all over the press, and with it, questions about how the... More
Fortune Looks at Possible Prosecutions
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Fortune's cover story this week looks at something I've been wondering about for, oh, a year or so now: Who's... More
Obama’s SEC Pick Under the WSJ Microscope
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2009 at 08:49 AM
The Journal is excellent today covering Mary Schapiro, Obama's pick to head the SEC. The pick never engendered much enthusiasm,... More
Trade Plunges; Whither China?
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2009 at 09:54 AM
The Journal fronts some interesting news this morning: Global trade is tanking, showing just how bad the U.S. economy is... More
A Couple of Misses on Citi
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2009 at 08:47 AM
I've got a bone to pick with the coverage this morning of Citigroup's dismantling of itself. Nowhere in Bloomberg, the... More
To Sell Or Not to Sell
Carr and Jarvis on newspaper business models
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM
David Carr makes a point that's so obvious but so anti-conventional wisdom that I think it bears a closer look:... More
WSJ Sees the Bright Side of Layoffs
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2009 at 08:52 AM
The Journal reaches too far for a silver lining this morning, writing that, hey, even if tons of people are... More
The Post Rips the Bush Economy
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM
The Washington Post is brutal this morning, as well it should be, in its post-mortem on eight years of the... More
The Journal’s Late Swing at Housing’s “Baghdad Bob”
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2009 at 09:57 AM
There are a lot of folks who deserve some time in the public stocks for their doings during the housing... More
Audit Interview: Gretchen Morgenson
“You’ve got to keep hammering”
By Ryan Chittum Jan 9, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Gretchen Morgenson is a leader of what might be called the accountability school of business journalism—a school with, in our... More
LAT Scores on Health Insurance Scheme
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM
The LA Times gets a nice win today in its series on health insurers. The paper has run a series... 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.
