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Ace in the Hole (1951)
What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM
I’ve got Murdoch on the brain, but I couldn’t help thinking about the News of the World scandal while watching... More
Audit Notes: Picturing the Turmoil, WSJ vs. SmartMoney, Long Crisis
By Ryan Chittum Aug 11, 2011 at 06:40 PM
Lots of people are linking the Brokers With Hands On Their Faces Blog in the midst of the market turmoil... More
SmartMoney Makes a Hash of the Downgrade
Says borrowers face higher rates, despite sinking Treasury yields
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2011 at 06:17 PM
Speaking of the Journal overhyping the S&P downgrade of U.S. Treasurys, its sister magazine SmartMoney has a doozy of a... More
The Journal Hypes the Downgrade
A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2011 at 02:44 PM
That Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. from AAA to AA+ is a big story no doubt. But The Wall... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Board, Hedge Funds Selling
By Ryan Chittum Aug 9, 2011 at 07:35 PM
How awful is News Corporation's corporate governance (among other things)? Bloomberg News on Viet Dinh, the guy who wrote the... More
The Long Crisis
The current tumult had its origins in the housing bust and Crash of 2008
By Ryan Chittum Aug 9, 2011 at 04:54 PM
The Wall Street Journal's new Money & Investing chief, Francesco Guerrera, has an awfully narrow perspective about "Why This Crisis... More
Market Mess
Troubles pile up for the financial system and the economy
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 08:18 PM
What happened in the markets today? Good luck figuring that out (you can't, really). Let's just say it's some combination... More
Blaming the Audience: Almost Always a Bad Idea
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 01:57 PM
Marketplace's Heidi N. Moore lays into a listener for getting upset about Wall Street wanting to cut her entitlements. In... More
Audit Notes: Decline and Fall, Inflation Falls Again, Stress Indicators
By Ryan Chittum Aug 5, 2011 at 08:18 PM
Your Decline and Fall Moment of the Day comes from Standard & Poor's, the credit-ratings firm that was a core... More
Audit Notes: Panic in the Markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 08:03 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 512 points today, some 4.3 percent, as panic takes hold in global markets. The... More
Excellent Reporting on the Revolving Door By American Banker
Paper’s FOIA request shows a former FHA commish palling around with his future employer
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 01:46 PM
American Banker has a terrific story on the revolving door, digging into the records of former Federal Housing Authority commissioner... More
Audit Notes: Some Recovery, Tom Watson Profiled, Debt Myths
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2011 at 07:48 PM
Calculated Risk gives us four indicators the National Bureau of Economic Research uses to call and date recessions and recoveries.... More
WSJ Fronts Amazon’s Tax Avoidance Strategy
Color-coded maps tell employees which states are safe, bad, and neutral
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2011 at 06:38 PM
It's nice to see The Wall Street Journal take a page-one look at Amazon's aggressive tax avoidance, something I've written... More
The Wall Street Journal: Murdochification Watch
The paper runs a thinly sourced, and quickly denied, scoop on non-News Corp. bribes
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, unsurprisingly, hasn't done a whole lot of digging on the News Corp. hacking scandal. Or... More
Despite Debt Ceiling Deal, Wishy-Washy Stock Market Stories
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2011 at 03:14 PM
The House approved the debt-ceiling/spending cuts deal after markets closed yesterday, and the Senate passed it today. The Dow is... More
Audit Notes: The Murdoch Lobby at Work, Davies in America, Audit Radio
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Roger Cohen, author of one of the worst Murdoch apologies of the hacking scandal, heads to David Cameron and Rebekah... More
Follow a 99er Through the Press As the Money Runs Out
The long jobs crisis, with no end in sight, should prompt us to revisit older stories
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Now that it's certain that our leaders have gone all in on austerity, despite a 9.2 percent unemployment rate and... More
Audit Notes: What News Corp. Knew, Mulcaire Talks, FT Paywall Success
By Ryan Chittum Jul 29, 2011 at 07:40 PM
The New York Times has a big scoop tonight on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that News International and its... More
Debt-Ceiling Jitters Hit the Markets
European crisis and other bad news doesn’t help
By Ryan Chittum Jul 29, 2011 at 03:36 PM
I'm beginning to get that spring/summer 2008 feeling again, and it's no wonder. The latest GDP report this morning signals... More
Audit Notes: Another Davies Hacking Scoop, Greece, The Debt Ceiling
By Ryan Chittum Jul 28, 2011 at 07:25 PM
Nick Davies lands another big scoop on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that police investigators believe the News of 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.
