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The New York Post’s disgrace
The paper smears a kid and a young man on its front page as possible terrorists
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
At some point, you even have to hold the tabloids to account. That point is now with the New York... More
Audit Notes: Retail life, statutes of limitations, newspaper bulls
CBS MoneyWatch looks at how shops jerk workers around
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
CBS News's MoneyWatch is good to take a hard look at life for workers in the retail industry, which not... More
Paywalls did not cause the fall of WSJ longform
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal misses the Murdoch
By Ryan Chittum Apr 17, 2013 at 06:30 PM
Alexis Madrigal asks whether The Wall Street Journal's paywall is responsible for its turning away from longform journalism. That one's... More
The problem with financial literacy as a fix
Helaine Olen on enabling blame-the-victims apologies
By Ryan Chittum Apr 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Helaine Olen has an eye-opening column in The Guardian on the concept of financial literacy and how it's misused to... More
Audit Notes: Reinflating the bubble, Nader in the WSJ
The LA Times reports on a new rush in Southern California
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a good and disturbing look at how the LA housing market is already showing signs... More
Audit Notes: WSJ and labor, Tumblr-speak, not the London whale
Getting it right on a nursing-home worker shortage
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2013 at 08:30 AM
I got on the Journal last week for completely missing labor's point of view in a story on cranky McDonald's... More
McDonald’s through management’s eyes, in the WSJ
Rude employees who, oh by the way, make poverty wages
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that internal McDonald's documents say that the fast food chain's customer service is "broken"—that it... More
Populism and financial crises
A Columbia professor’s thesis on Canadian and American banking gets credulous WSJ treatment
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal credulously reports on a new paper by Columbia B-school professor Charles Calomiris on why we have... More
Audit Notes: The paywall problem, Thatcherism, Googlebots
Keeping out the youth of America
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Alan Mutter has this to say about the pitfalls of paywalls: The case for paywalls would seem to be compelling:... More
AP’s pension probe misses the broad view
Good reporting is undermined by a lack of context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM
The Associated Press has a tough three-part investigation out this week looking at corruption in an old Washington state pension... More
Audit Notes: Not so scammy, engineer world, Americans’ low taxes
A Bloomberg View column’s alleged scamming of the FDIC looks perfectly legal
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2013 at 10:40 AM
William D. Cohan roughs up newly former SEC Chief Mary Schapiro and former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder in a... More
Audit Notes: Reuters in court, 97-month car loans, the missing 000s
A flurry of legal activity for the wire service
By Ryan Chittum Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters has been in the legal news a bit lately, and not in a good way. First, the Journal reported... More
Audit Notes: Plain Dealer, Silicon Valley openness, debt and borrowing
Cleveland execs trot out the Advance Publications talking points
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose slogan not so long ago was "Miss a day, miss a lot," will go to... More
Revolving door spins for Schapiro and Breuer
Former SEC and DOJ officials cash in
By Ryan Chittum Apr 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
So you make big bucks as partner at a top law firm at the "nexus of Washington and Wall Street."... More
BusinessWeek’s billion-dollar boo-boo
A poor piece spreads bogus news about Amazon’s Goodreads acquisition
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2013 at 05:32 PM
Bloomberg BusinessWeek makes itself look silly today, running a speculative piece on how much Amazon paid for its latest acquisition,... More
Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model
Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Gambit's Kevin Allman reports that the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge bureau chief is out after six months. My long... More
Audit Notes: Columbia navel-gazing edition
A tech site takes down Michael Wolff’s thoughts on Twitter
By Ryan Chittum Mar 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's always fun to see a Michael Wolff trolling get demolished. This one's at the hands of PandoDaily's Hamish McKenzie.... More
IPOs for the masses
A global business leader wants IPOs for his countrymen, in Quartz
By Ryan Chittum Mar 26, 2013 at 06:50 AM
When Quartz launched, it said that its "mission is to serve today's new class of global business leaders" who "have... More
Audit Notes: Different than you and me, Google as utility
Political discourse disproportionately follows the whims of the wealthy
By Ryan Chittum Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Los Angeles Times runs a fascinating op-ed by Benjamin I. Page and Larry M. Bartels on the policy preferences... More
Personal finance experts of the day
Some baffling editorial judgment in the The Wall Street Journal
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Experts: Should People Buy Long-Term-Care Insurance? That's the headline of a The Wall Street Journal article out yesterday--the kind... 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.
