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Audit Notes: Subpar Tom Friedman, Big Lie of the Crisis, Obama on Fraud
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2012 at 09:34 PM
Today's Tom Friedman column is even worse than usual: In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job,... More
The Journal Takes Us Inside the Google Drugs Sting
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2012 at 06:36 PM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on how federal agents caught Google deliberately breaking the law... More
Audit Notes: Dimon the Persecuted, Mitt’s Taxes, Minimum Wage
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2012 at 02:32 AM
Yesterday we heard press favorite Jamie Dimon sputtering about how swipe-fee regulations, which capped how much big banks could gouge... More
Mitt Romney’s Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2012 at 04:21 PM
All the major papers are devoting lots of resources to covering Mitt Romney's tax return, putting the national spotlight on... More
Audit Notes: Kim Dotcom and SOPA, Private Equity, Swipe Fees
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2012 at 07:58 PM
The Kim Dotcom story is fascinating, and not just because the FBI had to get dozens of cops in New... More
Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls
Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2012 at 05:30 PM
As far as voices of support go, the news business probably wishes it could do better than a patent troll... More
Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More
Two Days, Two Good Investigations From Mollenkamp
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 02:31 PM
Carrick Mollenkamp is getting his post-WSJ days off to quite the start. On Wednesday, he wrote, with Lauren Tara LaCapra... More
Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup, GOP and the Unemployed, SOPA
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2012 at 09:24 PM
Murdoch's hacking scandal flared up again today, as News Corporation paid out millions of pounds worth of settlements to victims... More
On Debt, Mitt’s of Two Minds
A career built on it and a campaign that rails against it
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Jesse Eisinger has a smart New York Times column on how Mitt Romney, fittingly perhaps, is running on debt while... More
Audit Notes: Gapper on SOPA, Japan’s Papers, Credit Card Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2012 at 09:24 PM
The reaction from internet evangelists over the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act has bordered on hysteria.... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s BW Investment, Jobs For Robots, NCAA Injustice
By Ryan Chittum Jan 17, 2012 at 08:02 PM
Chris Roush of TalkingBizNews looks at new Association of Magazine Media data and finds that business magazines are doing well—better... More
Paywalls: Maybe Not So Complicated After All
Thinking over Clay Shirky’s piece on the success of the NYT model
By Ryan Chittum Jan 17, 2012 at 01:21 PM
Clay Shirky, a leading paywall skeptic, deserves credit for grappling with what is now generally conceded to be the clear... More
Audit Notes: Triple Dip; Bloomberg Terminals; Goldman, AIG, and the Fed
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2012 at 09:45 PM
Jeffrey Verschleiser is in the news for renting out the entire ninety-four room Hotel Jerome this weekend for his daughter's... More
Famous Last Words From the Fed
Assessing coverage of newly released transcripts from just before the crash
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2012 at 02:28 PM
The big papers go page one today, as they should, with reports on newly released transcriptions from 2006 Federal Reserve... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Black Box, Banker Probe, Laffer Curveball
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Politico makes a good point about how reporters are having something of a hard time assessing Mitt Romney's tenure at... More
Misleading Readers on Romney’s “$12 Million Teardown”
The value is almost all in the land
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2012 at 02:43 PM
We've heard a lot about $12 million teardowns lately. Tiger Woods's ex-wife Elin Nordegren is tearing down her $12 million... More
The Banker Finds Possible “Trouble” at Chase (UPDATED)
Debt-collection lawsuits dry up in at least five states, raising questions about past practices
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2012 at 02:13 PM
Back in June, The Wall Street Journal reported a big scoop that press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase had dropped... More
Audit Notes: Kent State Court, Corporate Taxes, the Communion Wafer Industry
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2012 at 07:31 PM
Hats off to The Daily Kent Stater and reporter Doug Brown for exposing how the university was about to name... More
Wall Street’s Toxic Touch
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2012 at 03:22 PM
Bloomberg View's Mark Whitehouse points to a fascinating report on new evidence showing how badly Wall Street screwed investors in... 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.
