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Bernanke goes mostly unheard on spending (UPDATED)
The press continues its spotty coverage of Fed’s fiscal views
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I should say. Bernanke has talked... More
The WSJ bakes a bogus trend
And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now... More
Audit Notes: NYT CEO search, Private Prisons, Morozov
Sulzberger looks for a boss with tech experience
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:28 PM
Bloomberg News has new details on The New York Times Company's search for a CEO, which includes "aspirational" folks like... More
Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS
The agency hamstrings a program designed to bring in tips on tax evasion
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is... More
Audit Notes: Smart Money, NYT CEO, sushi chefs and nola.com
Dow Jones lays off staff and goes all-digital with its personal-finance magazine
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 09:22 PM
Dow Jones is shutting down Smart Money magazine, laying off most of the staff and going to a digital-only format... More
Audit Radio: Cleveland edition
Dean Starkman joins a panel of Ohio journalists on the future of newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Audit Chief Dean Starkman talked about the future of newspapers on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCRN this morning. "Sound of Ideas"... More
Audit Notes: The U-6ers, Jamie’s corporate welfare, The Guardian’s future
The NYT looks at those with not enough work
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I like this Michael Cooper piece in The New York Times on the folks who don't show up in the... More
Another A1 Times-Picayune press release
This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More
Audit Notes: Echoes of the 1930s, gilded bubble, access journalism
As Greece crumbles, extremism and violence rises
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 01:55 AM
On the echoes of the 1930s tip, the University of Athens's Aristides Hatzis writes in the Financial Times: Despite the... More
Microsoft’s live-action press release
Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet
By Ryan Chittum Jun 19, 2012 at 08:00 AM
Yesterday, Microsoft got a bunch of tech journalists to go to Hollywood for what it promised would be a major... More
Audit Notes: Very profitable staff cuts; Dimon’s crisis bet; Obama and trade
Time Inc. squeezes Sports Illustrated for more money
By Ryan Chittum Jun 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Edmund Lee gets a great quote from the editor of Time Incorporated's Sports Group, Terry McDonell, on why Sports... More
The Times-Picayune’s front-page press release
Advance Publication’s Alabama papers take even worse hits than New Orleans
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
You know the backlash is serious when the Times-Picayune wraps itself in Katrina and puts a press release/editorial by the... More
New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel
The fall of the Times-Picayune
By Ryan Chittum Jun 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market... More
Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego
ProPublica documents JPMorgan Chase’s extensive ties to a docile Senate Banking Committee
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM
ProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill... More
Audit Notes: bad banks edition
Too big to behave or to fail
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Gretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions... More
Owens’s straw man army
A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time
By Ryan Chittum Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Howard Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its... More
Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition
Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 07:57 PM
The New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what... More
The Disingenuous WSJ Opinion Pages
Bogus arguments from Phil Gramm, Glenn Hubbard, and Peggy Noonan
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Phil Gramm and Columbia B-school Dean and Romney economic adviser Glenn Hubbard take to the op-ed pages of The Wall... More
Audit Notes: Whither The Guardian, Blodget breathes fire, CNBC flop
The New Statesman profiles editor Alan Rusbridger
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 01:52 AM
This long New Statesman profile of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, which also delves into the financial woes of his paper,... More
The Seattle Times sinks a local polluter
Investigating the sketchy background of a capsized ship’s owner
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Most business investigations focus on corporations and investors. And for good reason: They're the ones with the money and the... 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.
