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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
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
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.
