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SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation
When prices matter and when they don’t
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This SmartMoney post on "Why You're Not Getting a Raise" doesn't make sense. The lede: Didn’t get a raise this... More
The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan
Bogus numbers and rewritten history
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial board's Joseph Rago makes a whopper of an error in a column Tuesday extolling Paul... More
Audit Notes: Bill Black on CNBC, LAT eyes Ryan’s budget, robosigning
The ex-regulator might as well have been beamed in by the Curiosity rover
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 02:44 AM
Bill Black goes on CNBC and shreds Maria Bartiromo and Bethany McLean on whether Goldman Sachs (and others) could and... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s taxes, NBC’s win, turning off the Web
By Ryan Chittum Aug 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Joe Nocera writes about the sharp choice facing voters in November, and so it is. But this strikes me as... More
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’
The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's no shortage of uncritical reporting on the notion that employers, and particularly manufacturers, can't find enough qualified workers even... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz
The Atlantic on what would be Mitt’s “Path to Prosperity”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 01:56 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien has the best snap financial analysis of Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as a running... More
CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either
A model story for the iffy skills-gap meme
By Ryan Chittum Aug 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Now it's CNNMoney's turn to spread the "can't find workers" meme. The headline reads "Northeast Indiana: Hundreds of factory jobs... More
Audit Notes: Google moves on copyright, The Daily Shoe, Olympics
As its business interest aligns with content producers
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 09:28 PM
Google will finally begin to penalize pirate sites in its search algorithm. What took so long? The Wall Street Journal... More
False balance on Romney’s bogus welfare reform attack
He said-she said from the FT, and a weak showing from the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This Financial Times coverage of Mitt Romney's false attack on an Obama administration move on welfare reform is a classic... More
Audit Notes: WSJ forgets climate change, Reuters results, Murdoch hides
A story on the record heat wave omits global warming
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 01:24 AM
The Wall Street Journal writes 640 words on how last month was the hottest July on record—and fails to mention... More
The New York Times prepares to leave the content farm
The sale of About.com would leave a pure-play newspaper company
By Ryan Chittum Aug 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times Company looks set to exit the content-farm business, with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reporting that the company... More
A welcome spotlight on trade deals
Reuters’s Johnston goes to Korea to look at the prospects of a new agreement
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In March, the Obama administration implemented a trade agreement with South Korea that it promised, implausibly, would create tens of... More
Audit Notes: Auditor conflicts, Frannie holdup, London Whale pressured
The latest money-laundering scandal points to problems with a business model
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2012 at 01:11 AM
Francine McKenna looks at Deloitte's role in the latest money-laundering scandal and how it points to conflicts of interest in... More
Audit Notes: Singing on Libor, another bank scandal, Star Tribune
The NYT on how banks are turning each other in
By Ryan Chittum Aug 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times, in a good page-one story, reports that giant banks are selling each other out trying to... More
Required skimming: Libor
Understand and keep up to speed with England’s bank rate rigging scandal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Audit Notes: California’s Enron echoes, Sox toolbox, the Dow’s decade
LAT on allegations that JPMorgan manipulated markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
— Michael Hiltzik had a good column two weeks ago on allegations that JPMorgan Chase manipulated California energy markets: The... More
The Washington Post’s not-so-good earnings report
The paper puts a positive spin on another poor quarter
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2012 at 03:39 PM
Here's how the Washington Post covers its namesake parent company's dismal second-quarter earnings report: Washington Post Co. second-quarter profit up... More
Audit Notes: Taibbi on TBTF, the paranoid rich, Olympics
An NYT op-ed elides some critical context
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It's unclear why The New York Times is running op-eds on finance from a guy who is still operating under... More
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop
A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times posts a flacktacular Business Day piece on a new hedge fund named Falcon Edge. This new... More
Audit Notes: News Corp.’s board, Romney’s taxes, NBC’s Olympics
The paper reports prosecutors are examining whether to charge Murdoch’s directors
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Guardian's Nick Davis, with David Leigh, has another stunner on the hacking scandal. They report that Britain's Crown... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
