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Audit Notes (All-Lehman Edition): Round-Trip, Clueless, Felix on Fire
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2010 at 06:55 PM
Francine McKenna of Re: The Auditors weighs in on the Chittum/Carney fracas over Lehman prosecutions. She's on the side of... More
Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer’s Tactics
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2010 at 05:28 PM
Reuters has an eye-opening investigation today showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health (formerly called Fortis) systematically targeted sick patients... More
WSJ on a New Municipal “Move Your Money” Push
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story this morning on a nascent trend among municipalities to put their money... More
Audit Notes: Battle of NYC, Fed, Complexity, Big Mac Subsidies
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2010 at 08:38 PM
About the last thing we need now is a newspaper war, but Rupert Murdoch is Rupert Murdoch, so here we... More
Leeway for Lehman Brothers
Clusterstock’s Carney trips all over himself arguing against prosecutions
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that John Carney thinks "We Should Not Criminally Prosecute Lehman Executives." After all, this... More
Audit Notes: Strong Leder, Online Ads, CNBC Deathmatch
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2010 at 07:38 PM
— The Wall Street Journal has a very good leder today looking at how the dearth of credit is crimping... More
Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2010 at 04:20 PM
And just like that the Lehman Brothers scandal drops off the front pages. And not just the front pages—the section... More
Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2010 at 04:44 AM
I haven't read Michael Lewis's sure-to-be blockbuster The Big Short yet, but everybody ought to watch his appearance on 60... More
Audit Notes: Google “Grandeur,” Toxic Pet, Stop the Presses?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2010 at 05:28 PM
Valleywag's Ryan Tate hammers Google about its "Six Delusions of Grandeur." Tate points to this stunning quote in Fortune from... More
The Lehman Scandal Breaks Wide Open
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2010 at 01:38 PM
Will Repo 105 be the Chewco and JEDI of this crisis, and are we finally about to see some people... More
Audit Notes: Investigative Budgets, Cable BS, The Audit Outsourced
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2010 at 09:33 PM
Amount the Lehman Brothers court examiner spent to investigate that single company: $38 million. Amount Congress has budgeted for the... More
The Really Real S&P 500
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2010 at 05:54 PM
I wrote a post called "The Real Dow" a couple of months ago about how the press almost always fails... More
Gensler, Derivatives, and the Causes of the Crisis
A Times story brings up several critical points for coverage of Wall Street and reform
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM
The New York Times profiles Gary Gensler, the Goldman alum and former deregulation advocate who's now pursuing reform with the... More
Audit Notes: FT “News,” Overdrafts Over at BofA, No Marketwatchdog
By Ryan Chittum Mar 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM
There they go again. The Financial Times has a scoop so big it thought it decided we media types couldn't... More
Cranston Attorney Now a Journal Star
By Ryan Chittum Mar 10, 2010 at 03:30 PM
It's probably a bad sign if you're a Rhode Island lawyer who's the subject of two page-one Wall Street Journal... More
Times Peeks Inside CFPA Dealmaking
By Ryan Chittum Mar 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM
The New York Times has a great scoop on the making of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill sausage. No... More
Audit Notes: Sorkin GOP, Multi-Task Meacham, Salmon, Simon
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2010 at 08:53 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin dips his toe into political commentary today in his DealBook column. Maybe he should stick to mergers:... More
Big Money, No Funny
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2010 at 07:55 PM
I get that everybody's trying to hop on the video bandwagon now since ad CPMs are so much higher than... More
Credit Cards, Credit Scores, and Citigroup
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2010 at 05:13 PM
In case you didn't know it—the banks still have you over a barrel. David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times... More
Lowenstein’s Consumer Protection Stinker
Faulty logic and a false choice on banks
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2010 at 04:31 AM
Roger Lowenstein is too contrarian for his own good with his latest Bloomberg column. He writes that "Smart Banks With... 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.
