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Audit Notes: HBGary Federal, Jeff Sachs Goes Off, Gaming Google
By Ryan Chittum Feb 15, 2011 at 06:10 PM
ArsTechnica has a great ticktock on how the HBGary Federal scandal broke open, recounting how its CEO got into a... More
MIT Bloggers and Sorkin Take Down a Derivatives Study
By Ryan Chittum Feb 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column this morning exposing yet another misleading campaign affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce.... More
AOL’s HuffPo Premium Doesn’t Mean Much For the NYT
By Ryan Chittum Feb 14, 2011 at 06:11 PM
Frederic Filloux has some harsh criticism of The Huffington Post's business model, calling it "a digital sandcastle." But what caught... More
The HBGary Federal Scandal
Many questions need answering as hackers shine a light on the private-security underworld
By Ryan Chittum Feb 14, 2011 at 03:15 PM
I asked the press on Friday to quickly get on the disturbing story of HBGary Federal et al on Friday.... More
Audit Notes: HBGary Federal, Bank CEOs Stock Sales, Adam Gopnik
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2011 at 09:42 PM
This is one of the more disturbing stories I've read in a while. So far, no one in the mainstream... More
Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”
But there’s more to the story than we get from the AP and The Dallas Morning News
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The Associated Press reports that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's... More
Audit Notes: NFL Hell, No Inflation Here, Fraud Without Fraudsters
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 08:56 PM
Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has the column of the week, a righteous piece of outrage at the NFL... More
NYT Reports Bear Stearns Wasn’t Alone on Putbacks
Plus, Wall Street saw fraud signs, demanded money back, then kept buying loans
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 02:50 PM
The New York Times has a very good look today at what the Ambac lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase could mean... More
Audit Notes: Toxic Assets, Foreclosure Mills, SEC (Finally) Looking at CDOs
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 12:20 AM
What ever happened to that pile of toxic assets that the banks were sitting on? Wall Street Journal reporter Michael... More
The Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, Huffington Post Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Still think there's not a Web 2.0 bubble going on? The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that Twitter is now... More
Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s Problematic WikiLeaks Story
Red flags aflutter as the news outfit runs with seriously questionable evidence
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2011 at 07:02 PM
How many red flags can we count in this Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece on WikiLeaks? First there's the headline: Is Wikileaks... More
The “Can’t Find Workers” Meme Hits Germany
NYT & Co. channel the Chamber as a wage-hike solution goes unmentioned
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2011 at 03:15 AM
If there's an oh-so-contrarian thesis that really grates right now, it's the one that businesses just can't seem to find... More
Playing Politics With Mr. Market
A WSJ columnist slaps Obama for “his” seven-week bear market two years ago
By Ryan Chittum Feb 8, 2011 at 08:26 PM
There's a long and boring history of hacks, typically on the right, blaming or crediting presidents for whatever the stock... More
Bloomberg Markets Finds the Rich Taking From the Poor
By Ryan Chittum Feb 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Bloomberg Markets has a terrific investigation into how a federal program meant to spur redevelopment in poor areas is funneling... More
Audit Notes: A Disney Delivery, Tribes and Payday Loans, HuffPo/AOL
By Ryan Chittum Feb 7, 2011 at 06:57 PM
The New York Times reports that Disney is trying to capitalize on the massive baby market by infiltrating the hospital... More
The Huffington Post’s Tainted Money
The befuddled legacy customers of AOL fund a bubble-era premium for Arianna & Company
By Ryan Chittum Feb 7, 2011 at 05:12 PM
Say what you will about Arianna Huffington's decision to sell out to AOL—and we will below—she's no dummy. Of the... More
Bloomberg Examines Louisiana’s Laissez-Faire Oil Regulators
Spills go unpenalized 99 percent of the time and the state’s fines are a joke
By Ryan Chittum Feb 4, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Bloomberg has an excellent investigation into Louisiana's oil regulators, finding that the state fines oil companies for oil spill less... More
Audit Notes: It’s Wall Street’s Deficit, Dimon Steps In It, Red-Faced Mortgage Bankers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2011 at 07:45 PM
Simon Johnson looks at the "Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks" over at The New York Times's Economix blog: First,... More
WSJ on Harry Markopolos’ Whistleblowing Shell Companies
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting scoop this morning on a lawsuit accusing banks of gouging pensioners and... More
Audit Notes: Hacked Off Tabs, A Mirage Economy, Wall Street’s Record Pay
By Ryan Chittum Feb 2, 2011 at 07:34 PM
The New York Times has another interesting story on News Corporation and its hacking scandal, this time reporting on a... 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.
