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Heds Up, Heds Down
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2008 at 09:14 AM
Headline of the Day, from the Journal editorial page: "Why Don't We Hang Pirates Anymore?" Worst Headline of the Day,... More
It’s Turkey Time. Gobble Gobble
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2008 at 08:57 AM
I like this Allan Sloan column in the Washington Post looking back at the worst "turkeys" of the year. Topping... More
Sorkin Channels Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2008 at 08:29 AM
Andrew Ross Sorkin in today’s New York Times lets Wall Street CEOs (of all people) snipe anonymously at Tim Geithner,... More
The Times Is Also Right on Rubin
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2008 at 03:56 PM
Speaking of Robert Rubin, The New York Times yesterday had a great story on Citigroup and its atrocious risk-management policies.... More
Right on Rubin
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post points out that it's inexplicable that Robert Rubin hasn't had his reputation much more... More
WSJ Looks at the Morgan Stanley Panic
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2008 at 09:27 AM
The Journal’s big story of the day pieces together what happened to Morgan Stanley a couple of months ago when... More
The Times on the Fall of Luxury
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2008 at 09:07 AM
The Times has a serviceable story on the problems in the luxury part of the economy, but I just want... More
A Billion Here, a Trillion There
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2008 at 08:26 AM
President-Elect Obama is proposing an enormous stimulus package to save us all from Great Depression II, but just how much... More
WSJ on the Liver Merchants
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2008 at 10:17 AM
The Wall Street Journal has yet another good story in its series on nonprofit hospitals acting like for-profit companies. This... More
Audit Interview: John Ryan
“There was an even bigger story here about how money and influence shape policy”
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Many in the press believe they did a great job covering predatory mortgage lenders and their Wall Street partners in... More
Sulzbergers Face the Dividend Music
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2008 at 09:26 AM
The New York Times Company finally faced up to reality yesterday and slashed its dividend. It’s something it should have... More
Look Out Below!
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2008 at 08:58 AM
The brief recovery in the credit markets caused by the government bailout is officially history. The Journal continues its good... More
Somebody’s Wrong on Citi
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2008 at 08:25 AM
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both have scoops this morning on what Citi is planning to... More
A Roundup of the Wreckage
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 09:59 AM
With yet another stock-market plunge yesterday, the papers all have their follow stories about the bleakness. Barry Ritholtz over at... More
WSJ: A Novel Tack by Mortgage Firms
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 09:18 AM
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report on mortgage firms slashing troubled borrowers’ principal, rather than foreclosing on them.... More
The Big Three’s PR Disaster
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 08:52 AM
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post twists the knife into the carmaker CEOs, who were busted in Congress yesterday for... More
Cash for Trash
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2008 at 08:20 AM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story about which corporate executives made the biggest killings over the last five... More
Steering Away from the Pack
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 12:13 PM
With everybody thinking and writing about the car industry these days, it’s hard to stand out from the pack. But... More
FT Calls Out the Administration on its “Corner”
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 09:38 AM
The Financial Times is appropriately skeptical of Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke and their assertions that "we have... More
How Much “Change”?
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Bloomberg has a nice report on what an Obama administration’s financial and economic policy will look like, noting that Robert... 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.
