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Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 05:03 PM
I'm happy to say I was wrong (and Felix was right) in guessing that retail investors would jump into Facebook... More
The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry
An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM
A tremendous Chicago Tribune investigation into flame-retardant chemical manufacturers shows how they push their poisons on an unsuspecting public despite... More
A game of telephone fools the Times
And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The New York Times posts a nasty correction on its Sunday op-ed by William Deresiewicz, who asserted that a study... More
Audit notes: Questions for JPMorgan, hindsight journalism, Ticketmaster
Jesse Eisinger asks what and when Dimon & Co. knew about the bank’s big loss
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2012 at 06:11 PM
ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger, in his NYT DealBook column, writes about what the press and the authorities should be asking about... More
The Facebook frenzy
Retail investors prepare to jump on a richly valued IPO
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one Facebook IPO story does a good job of capturing some uncomfortable parallels to the dot.com... More
What’s the right price for ebooks? (updated)
It’s probably not 99 cents
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing... More
Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes
By Ryan Chittum May 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American... More
The business press embarrasses Jamie Dimon
London Whale, sighted one month ago, knocks billions off JPMorgan’s worth
By Ryan Chittum May 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM
In what FT Alphaville called "the most excruciating bank conference call we’ve ever heard," press favorite Jamie Dimon announced last... More
Audit notes: Chesapeake woes, the Untaxable, Reuters on HSBC
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2012 at 07:34 PM
The hits keep coming at Chesapeake Energy. Today, it's The Wall Street Journal's turn. It reports on page one that... More
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course
Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2012 at 06:10 AM
The Washington Post Company‘s dismal quarterly earnings release last week was received with something of a shrug—more of the same.... More
Audit notes: WSJ dings austerity, Weisenthal, The Global Mail
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 07:58 PM
If you're looking to get up to speed on what happened with the euro and Greece, you could do a... More
Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps
New York cover story dispenses with named sources
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 02:12 AM
Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague... More
Clearly, Quartz wants to help elites go optimize themselves
The Atlantic’s new business site enters a crowded field catering to the 0.1 percent
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 12:58 AM
The Atlantic's big new business-journalism project is off to an inauspicious start. First there's the name: Quartz, which is different,... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Influence, Reuters’s Chesapeake drumbeat
A sweeping indictment of the corruption of British politics by News Corp.
By Ryan Chittum May 9, 2012 at 06:10 AM
The News Corp. scandal is so massive and so sprawling that it's just about impossible to bring all the pieces... More
Audit notes: News Corp.’s board, Lehman’s hubris, Awards and Slideshows
David Carr eyes Rupert Murdoch’s crony-filled board of directors
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2012 at 12:55 AM
David Carr takes a look at the News Corporation board of directors, which is as stacked with the CEO's cronies... More
The housing market at an inflection point
The Journal explains why bidding wars are starting to bubble up again
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2012 at 07:00 AM
After seven or so years of bearishness on housing, I decided a few weeks back that the market was probably... More
Audit notes: Still pro-euro, foreclosures, privatized parking meters
An FT contributor says the UK doesn’t want to miss out on that Europe thing
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 05:24 PM
British Labour politician Peter Mandelson takes to the Financial Times to argue that, after all we've seen, the UK should... More
Facebook’s low, low ad rates
The Journal reports on the site’s problems with advertisers
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 04:00 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece on advertisers' doubts about Facebook. As I noted a few months ago,... More
The most important journalist in business news
Fox Business stakes a gilded claim for Neil Cavuto
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Quick: Who's the most important journalist in business news? Is it The Wall Street Journal's Robert Thomson or Paul Gigot?... More
Audit notes: Dollar dictator, the SEC’s small fry, Americans go Swiss
The Federal Reserve doesn’t answer solely to Ben Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 02:21 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien, whom you should really be reading, raises an important point lost in all the discussion about... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
