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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
Audit notes: Murdoch and the Conservatives, M&A, ESPN fail
Tantalizing but thinly sourced info on Rebekah Brooks’s texts to David Cameron
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Peter Oborne writes a must-read column for The Telegraph on how the Murdoch scandal is threatening, unnecessarily, to bring down... More
Reuters uncovers Chesapeake CEO’s other day job
Second probe in two weeks deals gas tycoon Aubrey McClendon another big headache
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2012 at 05:35 PM
Reuters unloads another outstanding scoop on the sketchy doings of Chesapeake Energy Aubrey McClendon, reporting that the CEO ran a... More
Audit notes
Murdoch Mauled by MPs Edition
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2012 at 12:13 AM
Rupert Murdoch wasn't the only "not fit" executive seared by the select committee's report on News Corporation scandals today. The... More
The coverup culture of News Corp.
A damning report from Parliament and Rupert Murdoch’s revealing response to it
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2012 at 07:01 PM
When a committee of Parliament condemned Rupert Murdoch today Tuesday as "not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Lobbyists, Reuters on Chesapeake, Shadow Space (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2012 at 01:40 AM
Top News Corporation officials talked about enlisting the top Wall Street Journal Europe editor to lobby politicians for Murdoch's multibillionaire... More
The WSJ’s Monster Market Move
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle hits the merger beat with Coca-Cola deal-talks story
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2012 at 07:23 PM
Here's what you like to see if you're a business reporter with a scoop on a big merger or acquisition:... More
The AP on Student Loan Hell
A 2005 law traps borrowers in private debt
By Ryan Chittum Apr 27, 2012 at 02:06 PM
The Associated Press takes a good look at how a 2005 law traps borrowers in private student loans—upending the whole... More
Audit Notes: Davies on Murdoch, Banks Eye the Poor for Fees, TARP ROI
By Ryan Chittum Apr 26, 2012 at 08:53 PM
Nick Davies writes in The Guardian that, after a second day of questioning under oath, "Rupert Murdoch is in trouble...... More
Bloomberg on Cherry-Picking Executive “Peers” to Inflate Pay
By Ryan Chittum Apr 26, 2012 at 02:08 PM
Bloomberg News has a good piece on how companies inflate CEO pay by comparing them to "peers" that are out... More
Audit Notes: The ER Boiler Room, Jeremy Hunt, UK Austerity Fails
By Ryan Chittum Apr 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Jessica Silver-Greenberg has an alarming page-one story in The New York Times on how hospitals are letting in third-party debt... More
The Journal Misses on Ebooks and Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum Apr 25, 2012 at 07:55 PM
It's usually wise to read an "experts say" story a little more skeptically than you normally would. That's the case... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch Minister Edition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2012 at 08:03 PM
The Murdoch scandal heated (hotted?) up yet again today with James Murdoch's testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, and it now... More
60 Minutes Revisits Lehman, Valukas, and Repo 105
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2012 at 07:19 PM
Remember the Valukas Report? That court-appointed bankruptcy examiner'sinvestigation into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found a number of colorable claims... More
Audit Notes: Blame the Lenders, Government Scandals, Corrections
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2012 at 01:38 AM
Abigail Caplovitz Field at Firedoglake writes a good post explaining why the blame-the-borrowers meme is ultimately misguided—and dangerous: Houses are... More
The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Apr 23, 2012 at 06:38 PM
David Barstow's epic Wal-Mart investigation in the Sunday New York Times has already lopped $10 billion off the company's market... More
Audit Notes: The Pentagon’s Privatized Propaganda, Chesapeake, Inequality
By Ryan Chittum Apr 20, 2012 at 10:43 PM
This story is just amazing: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
