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The Foreclosure Scandal Begins to Hit Home
The possible ramifications are enormous
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2010 at 01:36 AM
If you still doubt that the burgeoning foreclosure scandal is going to have nasty consequences for the economy and the... More
A Harsh Verdict on Obama’s BP Spill Response
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2010 at 01:11 PM
The big papers stuff news today that an Obama-appointed commission on the BP oil spill is pretty scathing on the... More
Audit Notes: Foreclosure Scandal, Manufacturers’ Outlook, News of the World
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2010 at 06:29 PM
The foreclosure scandal continues to break wide open. Several banks have halted foreclosures as clear evidence of fraud has emerged... More
FT Fronts a Thin Story on Manufacturing Suppliers
A dog-bites-man story posing as a trend piece fails at both
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2010 at 02:42 PM
Here's one of those thin Financial Times stories that doesn't make much sense. Yesterday it put this story on page... More
The New York Times Unloads on Tribune’s Zell Hell
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM
David Carr and The New York Times have a fascinating and sordid story about Sam Zell's tenure as owner of... More
Audit Notes: Clayton Bull, Bloomberg News, Cohan and Consumers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2010 at 06:27 PM
Shahien Nasiripour continues to bird dog the Clayton Holdings story, reporting today that, under pressure from the folks on Wall... More
Reuters Investigates the Fed’s Selective Leaks
Guess who gets them?
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM
This Reuters investigation of the Federal Reserve deserves a much wider airing than it's gotten. The wire reports that the... More
The Free Trade Backlash
By three to one in a WSJ/NBC News poll, Americans say free trade hurts the country
By Ryan Chittum Oct 4, 2010 at 07:26 PM
The Wall Street Journal zooms in on a poll result from last week: That far more Americans now oppose "free... More
Life Insurance as Tax Dodge for the Rich
The Wall Street Journal on a “widows and orphans” tax break past its prime
By Ryan Chittum Oct 4, 2010 at 06:06 PM
The Wall Street Journal is excellent today in a page-one story on how the life-insurance industry has evolved into something... More
Murdoch’s Threat to Democracy
Direct influence via the power of the purse—here and in the UK
By Ryan Chittum Oct 4, 2010 at 12:49 PM
Politico astutely pointed out the other day that Fox News now employs four of the leading Republican presidential candidates: Sarah... More
The Journal Misleads on McDonald’s and Obamacare
And it channels the wealthy-but-stingy employer’s cries of poverty
By Ryan Chittum Oct 1, 2010 at 02:23 PM
The Wall Street Journal caused something of a to-do yesterday with its front-page story reporting that McDonald's might drop its... More
The Times Channels the Oil Lobby on Cuba
By Ryan Chittum Oct 1, 2010 at 10:16 AM
The top story in The New York Times yesterday carried a bit of water for the oil and gas lobby.... More
Audit Notes: The Shark Submerges, Flack Jobs From Hell, Trial Balloons Popped
By Ryan Chittum Sep 30, 2010 at 08:51 PM
Michael Lewis plays the "Jaws" theme in his BusinessWeek column asking why Wall Street fought tooth and nail for an... More
Crisis Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again
Europe’s sovereigns worsen again, currency devalutions threaten a downward spiral, and more.
By Ryan Chittum Sep 30, 2010 at 05:58 PM
Things are getting ugly again in Europe, with multiple nations teetering toward default. Nations are beginning to play beggar-thy-neighbor with... More
Accountability Icelandic Style
Politicians in the dock for the financial crisis
By Ryan Chittum Sep 30, 2010 at 10:49 AM
What's the difference between Iceland and us? Well, there's the rotten shark meat, the leaving babies outside unattended in freezing... More
Audit Notes: The Damage Done, GOP Economics, Pittman Bests Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum Sep 29, 2010 at 07:56 PM
Now this is a correction. The Wall Street Journal this morning (emphasis mine): Singer Neil Young was born Nov. 12,... More
This Gold “Record” Keeps Skipping
The Journal and others fail to account for thirty years of inflation
By Ryan Chittum Sep 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM
The Wall Street Journal goes page one with a misleading story about gold, splashing this headline across four columns atop... More
Audit Notes: Illegal Immigrant Costs, E-books, Curmudgeons
By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2010 at 06:47 PM
(UPDATE: I misread this WSJ post. The Rand analyst was actually talking about all immigration, legal and illegal. The Journal... More
Access As Distortion Field
Facebook author spins for the company in the Washington Post
By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Fortune's David Kirkpatrick, author of a new book on Facebook, an excerpt of which I criticized a while back for... More
Audit Notes: Why No Charges?, ABC on Collections, SEC Whiff
By Ryan Chittum Sep 27, 2010 at 08:17 PM
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure I can argue against this statement, by law prof Peter J. Helling, who... 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.
