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Yet Again, Fannie and Freddie Didn’t Do It
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Michael Hudson writes one of the most convincing Fannie and Freddie Didn't Do It pieces yet. Actually, my soundbite isn't... More
Audit Notes: Bad Times with FINRA, Apple, and Co-bylines
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 08:58 PM
The New York Times's DealBook drops a beat sweetener profiling the new head of FINRA, that toothless in-house regulator of... More
The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving
Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM
Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he... More
The NYT Tosses Off a Paywall Story
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times has a brief report today raising hopes about the prospects of a pay model for newspapers.... More
Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM
This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More
The Groupon Bubble
NYT reports Wall Street pitching a $15 billion to $20 billion debut
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM
If you doubted, even after Facebook's recent $50 billion valuation, that there's a mini-bubble inflating in tech land, this morning's... More
Audit Notes: Financial Capture, Homeless, Amy Chua Criticizes WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2011 at 08:09 PM
Simon Johnson notes something big that Goldman Sachs dances around in its report on its internal culture released this week... More
Remapping the Debate on China’s Industrial Policy
Our rival has one. Where’s ours?
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2011 at 04:27 PM
Remapping Debate has an interesting piece on how the U.S. finds itself at the mercy of the Chinese for a... More
Audit Notes: Mortgage Servicers, Ghost Mall—China Style; The Joneses
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones takes a look (UPDATE: took a look, I should say. This story is from a... More
The SEC’s Khuzami and That Citigroup Settlement
An anonymous letter adds to questions about a wrist slap
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19 PM
Bloomberg News reported on Monday that the SEC's inspector general is investigating Robert Khuzami, its chief enforcement official, after getting... More
WSJ Spotlights Wage Declines of the Laid Off
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2011 at 08:41 PM
The Wall Street Journal is excellent today with this front-page examination of what the recession is doing to wages of... More
Bloomberg News Oversells and Underperforms on Toyota’s Decline
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Bloomberg News has a good idea to do a step-back on Toyota and how it's faring a year after its... More
Audit Notes: Ibanez Implications, The Daley Problem, Sbarro Sliced
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2011 at 08:29 PM
The Ibanez verdict in Massachusetts Supreme Court is yet more confirmation that the foreclosure scandal will have serious repercussions for... More
The Wall Street Journal Plays Stenographer to Chris Christie
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2011 at 01:43 PM
Is this a news story in The Wall Street Journal or a press release from the Office of the Governor... More
Audit Notes: Pension Woes, Inequality, Another Ratings Fiasco
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2011 at 07:42 PM
Yves Smith takes on the media's reporting on state pension woes: "If you live in the world according to the... More
Daley Latest in a Long Line of Business-Friendly Obama Picks
A “conciliatory” move in an administration that’s seen plenty of them
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM
The press is calling President Obama's appointment of JPMorgan Chase's William Daley as his new chief of staff a conciliatory... More
Audit Notes: Goldman’s Sophisticated Investors, Abacus Emails, Deindustrialization
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2011 at 10:14 PM
The New York Times gets an interesting scoop on the Goldman Sachs deal for a stake in Facebook—one that values... More
ProPublica Shows Merrill Paid Traders to Take Its CDOs
An important story on how Wall Street kept the bubble going
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2011 at 08:25 PM
I really hate when news organizations drop big stories over the holidays. For one, they have far less chance of... More
Hiltzik Takes on the FCC on the Comcast-NBC Deal
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2011 at 03:53 PM
John Dunbar has a must-read piece in the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review on why the Comcast-NBC Merger is... More
Audit Notes: Goldman and Facebook, Chainsaws, Hudson on Tax History
By Ryan Chittum Jan 5, 2011 at 08:52 PM
Francine McKenna sums up the problem with Facebook's Goldman Sachs investment pretty succinctly over at Forbes: Facebook wants the public’s... 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.
