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Analyze This!
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2008 at 09:33 AM
Bloomberg posts a short news story on some UBS analyst trying to make a name for himself by coming up... More
WSJ Now Inside Paulson’s Brain
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2008 at 08:56 AM
The Journal has seemingly been channeling Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson for months now. Today's story is so confident you know... More
Big Three CEOs Hit the Road
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2008 at 08:26 AM
The Times writes that the Big Three CEO's have learned their lesson from the private-jet debacle of two weeks ago.... More
Weird Goldman Sourcing at the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2008 at 10:06 PM
A Journal scoop this morning—or at least its sourcing—may have confused some readers. The paper reported that Goldman Sachs's loss... More
Preemptive Bubble Bursting
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2008 at 10:24 AM
The Journal's Bob Hagerty, who did lots of great work warning of problems in housing before the bubble burst, is... More
AP Is Excellent on Bush Mortgage Negligence
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2008 at 09:30 AM
The Associated Press put out a story yesterday reporting that the Bush Administration ignored in-house warnings of an impending mortgage... More
The Great Recession of 2008
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2008 at 09:05 AM
Bloomberg, via a source, makes its bid for what to call the crisis. The Great Recession has a nice ring... More
GM USA?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2008 at 08:28 AM
The LAT's Pulitzer-winning car critic Dan Neil makes an interesting case for the government nationalizing the auto industry, especially General... More
News You Can Actually Use But Hopefully Won’t Have To
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Here's a timely personal-finance story with information I actually haven't read a million times. The LA Times's Kathy M. Kristof... More
The Banks and the Big Three
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM
The Journal's excellent Heard on the Street writer David Reilly hits at the banks today, pointing out that they need... More
The Media’s Mixed Messages on the Mall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2008 at 09:24 AM
David Carr is right to expose the media's hypocrisy in its hand-wringing over the Black Friday mania that ended up... More
WaPo and 60 Minutes Team Up on Internet Gambling
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2008 at 08:58 AM
The Washington Post and 60 Minutes put their investigative heads together for a nice two-day collaboration on Internet gambling that... More
WSJ: What Crisis?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2008 at 08:28 AM
This Journal story about Morgan Stanley is off key—and it's a bad time to be out of tune. Hey, did... More
Chef Executive Officer
By Ryan Chittum Nov 26, 2008 at 09:49 AM
So the Times suggests you run your Thanksgiving dinner like you're a CEO. But skip the story and let The... More
Joe Nocera’s Mailbag
By Ryan Chittum Nov 26, 2008 at 09:18 AM
The NYT's Joe Nocera publishes an excellent email from an unnamed banker predicting an impending (and deserved, he says) collapse... More
Bloomberg: Governments Still Gambling on Derivatives
By Ryan Chittum Nov 26, 2008 at 08:59 AM
Check out this Bloomberg story on a Pennsylvania county getting into derivatives to help balance its budget. The interest-rate swaps,... More
LAT Looks Under the New Century Rock
By Ryan Chittum Nov 26, 2008 at 08:25 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a good investigation of questionable stock sales at New Century Financial, which was one of... More
The Story of the Small Banks
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2008 at 04:04 PM
The Washington Monthly has a good story looking at the successes of community banks, which are in pretty good shape... More
BusinessWeek Exposes the New Subprime
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I’ve got to applaud BusinessWeek for its aggressive investigation of dirty subprime lenders getting back into the mortgage game with... More
Slate on Predatory Lending
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2008 at 09:52 AM
Slate has a nice, if a bit too easy, piece focusing on the predatory lending that played a huge role... 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.
