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$73 an Hour Doesn’t Add Up
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM
I like David Leonhardt's column this morning in the Times, debunking the $73 figure widely thrown around as what the... More
Journal’s Legg Mason “Get”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2008 at 09:37 AM
The Journal scores an interview with Legg Mason's Bill Miller, a legendary investor who's run into a brick wall in... More
Bloomberg Hits the Washington Consensus
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Bloomberg has an excellent story this morning about how the free-trade policies foisted upon poor countries by rich ones have... More
The Journal Gets a Scalp
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2008 at 08:52 AM
A day after the Journal went page one with a story about Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain begging the board... More
Tribune Aftermath
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2008 at 08:32 AM
The NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin has an excellent column today on Tribune. He slams a list of players, including the... More
Cookie-Company Crisis Makes WSJ and NYT
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Jeffrey D. Austen lost his job making cookies in Ohio. Some ambitious PR firm needs to hire him, stat. It... More
Journal Pushing Free Trade on Its News Pages
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM
This Journal headline is irritating: Hard Times Offer a Chance To Overcome Protectionism Some of us fervently hope that the... More
The Ratings Scam
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Gretchen Morgenson in yesterday's Times keeps her eye on the ball with a look at one of the biggest scandals... More
Tribune on the Brink
The financial crisis has dealt a deadly blow to its chances
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2008 at 09:47 AM
The Journal scooped last night that Tribune Company may file for bankruptcy this week. The other papers follow suit (not... More
WSJ is Super on Reserve Primary Fund Story
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2008 at 08:33 AM
The Journal is excellent this morning with an in-depth report on the Reserve Primary Fund, the money-market fund that "broke... More
NYT’s Norris Tweaks Trump
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Floyd Norris has some good clean fun with Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank, whom Trump is suing in a brazen... More
Audit Interview: Jesse Eisinger
“We’re grappling with our own failures about how, by and large, we missed this”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Before joining Conde Nast Portfolio, Jesse Eisinger had already compiled a record of skeptical reporting on and analysis of Wall... More
Rupert: Get Me That Bush House Story!
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2008 at 10:05 AM
In the annals of stories The Wall Street Journal would not have done, much less placed on A3, pre-Rupert Murdoch,... More
Questions for the WSJ on B of A
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2008 at 09:10 AM
The Journal has some amusing tidbits in its story on the Bank of America shareholder vote scheduled for today on... More
Buck-Breaking and Lawsuit-Shaking
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2008 at 08:30 AM
The Times has a worthy story this morning looking at a bizarre move by the Reserve Primary Fund to protect... More
Deflation? Try Some Legal Price Fixing
By Ryan Chittum Dec 4, 2008 at 10:42 AM
The Journal has an interesting story on retailers hiring "police" to ferret out discounters selling their products below the "minimum... More
Citi Dump
By Ryan Chittum Dec 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil has a great column today on Citigroup not coming clean on its buckled balance sheet. Let's say... More
NYT’s Saturn Story Missing a Few Rings
By Ryan Chittum Dec 4, 2008 at 09:09 AM
The Times has an interesting idea for a story on Saturn and what might have been for General Motors, but... More
The Wall Street Journal and Xinhua
By Ryan Chittum Dec 4, 2008 at 08:55 AM
The Journal, which I said yesterday was writing as if it was now inside Hank Paulson's head, at least attributes... More
WSJ Watchdogs Sketchy Conseco Insurance Move
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM
The Journal has a nice story today shining a light on the Conseco insurance company offloading some unprofitable long-term-care policies... 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.
