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More on Madoff from the Times
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2008 at 09:49 AM
The Times adds some good reporting about Madoff, too. First of all, it says that he's not going to the... More
Journal on Top with Madoff/SEC Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2008 at 08:39 AM
The Journal is besting its rivals on the Madoff story. Today it has a super page-one story that reveals that... More
WSJ Looks Into the Woes at Calpers
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 02:23 PM
The Journal has a good story looking at the troubles at Calpers, the California state-pension system that's one of the... More
Bloomberg Stays on AIG
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Bloomberg reports that more questions are being raised about AIG's books. It says it may cost the insurer another $30... More
The Bright Side of Deflation, Part Two
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 09:10 AM
David Leonhardt of The New York Times also writes about falling prices today: The cost of fruits, vegetables, clothing and... More
The Bright Side of Deflation
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2008 at 08:33 AM
David Lazarus has a nice column about wage stagnation in the Los Angeles Times, using the peg of falling prices... More
A CDO Story for the Rest of Us
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM
The Washington Post goes long with a look at how the CDO market went bust. I know, I know. You... More
WaPo’s Wrong Spin on Retail
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Here's an example of how not to write an economy story. The Washington Post this weekend reported on retail sales... More
GM Pencils, Part Two
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2008 at 08:37 AM
A reader, David Baggot, emailed me to point out that the Times story I liked yesterday about Detroit's extreme cost... More
Detroit Now Reduced to Using Regular Pencils
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM
The Times has some amusing-if-pathetic details in its story on how the Big Three are cutting back to the bare... More
MediaNews’ Busted Newspaper Bets
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 09:50 AM
The Times has a nice story on Dean Singleton's MediaNews and the problems it's facing in this atrocious time for... More
Bloomberg on Madoff’s Auditor
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 09:08 AM
Bloomberg does some basic legwork on the Bernard Madoff scandal and gets some great color out of it. One of... More
WaPo: Bailout’s Pay Limits May Be Moot
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2008 at 08:34 AM
The Washington Post has a nice scoop today that the executive-pay provisions of the bailout law are basically unenforceable. But... More
WSJ: Tax-Lite Companies Want Tax-Heavy Bailouts
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM
The Journal does some good work in looking at some of the pigs lined up at the $700 billion TARP... More
Fed Slaps Down Bloomberg FOIA
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Bloomberg keeps the heat on the Federal Reserve to disclose to whom it's given $2 trillion in loans. The news... More
Audit Interview: Michael Hudson
“We’re in a battle now to define what happened.”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 09:12 AM
Lots of people have asked why the press didn't tell us loudly enough that the subprime train was a-comin'. But... More
Was Countrywide’s “Puffery” Criminal?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 12, 2008 at 08:29 AM
Floyd Norris in the NYT points out something worth watching: a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial that's been allowed to go... More
NYT Lets Treasury Off Too Easy
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM
The Times lets Neel Kashkari, the Treasury's bailout guy, off the hook in a news story on congressional hearings yesterday.... More
Portfolio Pries Into Pequot
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2008 at 09:37 AM
Portfolio's Scot Paltrow has a very interesting story on some doings between Pequot Capital and one of the firm's former... More
The Times Looks at Bush’s Homeowner Advocate
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2008 at 08:33 AM
The New York Times takes a nuanced look at FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair this morning. She's the Bush administration member... 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.
