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Audit Notes: CDS Ban, WSJ v. NYT, A No-Layoffs Policy
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2010 at 08:19 PM
Wolfgang Munchau asks in the Financial Times why it's still legal to buy credit-default swaps when you don't own the... More
The Unemployed on the Payday Loan Treadmill
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2010 at 02:50 PM
The Los Angeles Times reports that payday lenders are feasting on the jobless, taking huge chunks of their unemployment checks... More
Breakingviews Says This Out of Love, Goldman
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Shorter Reuters Breakingviews: "The great Goldman Sachs, despite its greatness, should apologize for not living up to its higher standards... More
Audit Notes: North Dakota Tea, WSJ Heds, AP Charge
By Ryan Chittum Feb 26, 2010 at 07:07 PM
This is good bread-and-butter business reporting by The Wall Street Journal. It reports on an oil boom unfolding in North... More
No Context on the Fed’s New Fangs
By Ryan Chittum Feb 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Since when has the Federal Reserve been an investigative pit bull? Since never. But don't look to the major papers... More
Audit Notes: NYT CDS, Embargoes, Obama Folds
By Ryan Chittum Feb 25, 2010 at 08:59 PM
I had some reservation about the Times story on Greece and credit-default swaps this morning. Although I liked the idea... More
Reinflating the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Feb 25, 2010 at 06:28 PM
A relative of mine just got this in the mail from Bank of America Home Loans (ie: Countrywide) offering to... More
Are Swaps Helping Create a Greek Death Spiral?
By Ryan Chittum Feb 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM
It's a good idea for The New York Times to point out that Wall Street is betting against Greece after... More
Audit Notes: Rewrite, Taibbi’s Coffee, TBTF Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2010 at 07:52 PM
Jonathan Stray of the Nieman Journalism Lab finds that of 121 stories on Google hackers being traced to schools in... More
Was IndyMac a Sweetheart Deal or Just Sweet?
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2010 at 05:03 PM
The Los Angeles Times is good to point out that the consortium of billionaires and might-as-well-be-billionaires, including George Soros and... More
When Government Acts Like Private Industry
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM
The Wall Street Journal is good this morning to look at how public entities dirtied their hands in the bubble... More
Audit Notes: Underemployment, Rogue Industry, Schedule A
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2010 at 07:40 PM
The St. Petersburg Times's has an excellent profile of an MBA who's gone from a six-figure job to bagging groceries... More
Bloomberg’s Overdraft Story Doesn’t Have the Goods
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2010 at 03:27 PM
Bloomberg has its heart in the right place with a story on banks seeking new prey, err, revenue streams to... More
NYT Shows Banks Playing Dirty on Overdrafts
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM
The New York Times is excellent to spotlight how banks are using aggressive marketing tactics to try to trick customers... More
Audit Notes: Goldman-Greece, Planet Money, Leverage Limits
By Ryan Chittum Feb 22, 2010 at 07:37 PM
The Wall Street Journal flooded the zone on the Goldman-Greece debt scandal with a troika of stories today. On page... More
The WSJ Is Hit and Miss on Geithner
By Ryan Chittum Feb 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM
The Wall Street Journal has some interesting reporting this morning on Tim Geithner—reporting that doesn't do him any good. But... More
Audit Notes: Uh Oh, Joe Cassano; Asian Markets; BW Hires
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2010 at 06:54 PM
Reuters reports that AIG may have misled investors on material information related to its exposure to subprime mortgages. Investigative reporter... More
Mortgage Securitization in the Roaring Twenties
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2010 at 04:18 PM
Floyd Norris has a fascinating column today on new research that shows, yet again, that there's nothing new under the... More
Bloomberg’s Reilly Wrecks the Lex on Fed/AIG
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2010 at 11:07 AM
Bloomberg's David Reilly has a terrific column up today on the New York Federal Reserve and what's wrong with its... More
Audit Notes: Lex Dreck, Recourse, Extend and Pretend
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2010 at 09:39 PM
This is a bad sentiment for a journalist to have: Postmortems are revealing. But too much poking is damaging. That's... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
