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Audit Notes: Glades Crusade, Greenspan Deflects, Whatever Happened to…?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2010 at 09:18 PM
The New York Times's excellent investigation into Florida's deal for thousands of acres in the Everglades finds an awful lot... More
Bloomberg Shows Banks Teetering with Market Prices
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2010 at 03:05 PM
Some good reporting by Bloomberg today shows how the banking system is dependent on make-believe accounting to help prop it... More
Before Preemption There Was Riegle-Neal
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2010 at 09:51 AM
That may be the least-SEO-friendly headline of all time, but hey, we're not the Huffington Post! This from the Journal's... More
Audit Notes: God of Journalism, Pandit Panned, Wolff’s Own Medicine
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2010 at 06:24 PM
The new-hire newsroom memo has long been a hotbed of puffery—a place where journalists consistently put aside their cynicism and... More
Carrying Water for White-Collar Criminals
William D. Cohan pleads for a Goldman convict to be pardoned
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2010 at 03:45 PM
Edward Ericson Jr. of Baltimore City Paper points us to a long, weird William D. Cohan blog piece at New... More
Revisiting That Hyped WSJ Hedge-Fund Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2010 at 05:20 AM
Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an odd story on its front page headlined "Hedge Funds Pound Euro"—something Felix... More
Audit Notes: Bennett on Health Care, Fortune, WaPo Digital, Facebook
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2010 at 07:24 PM
Bloomberg editor Amanda Bennett has a remarkable story today recounting her husband's battle with cancer, how much it cost to... More
TNR on Obama and Regulation
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2010 at 05:55 PM
Secretary of Audit Dean Starkman has often criticized the press for its lackluster coverage of regulation, while acknowledging that it's... More
CNBC Millionaires Don’t Believe in Predatory Lending
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2010 at 04:21 AM
Barry Ritholtz points to this ludicrous CNBC segment where everyone gangs up on Janet Tavakoli for pointing out the obvious:... More
Audit Notes: Monopoly Culture, Health Care, SNLers on CFPA
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2010 at 09:27 PM
Thomas Frank reviews an interesting-looking book on monopolies in the American economy—one that argues that there are more than you... More
The NYT Muffs the Second-Day Fed-CFPA Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2010 at 04:20 PM
The New York Times tries to play catch-up on the proposal to put the Consumer Financial Protection Agency inside the... More
Corporate Welfare Columns, Yea and Nay
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2010 at 09:51 AM
The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein takes on corporate welfare at the local level today and shows how such a column... More
Audit Notes: Deflation, SEC Wrist Slap, ARMs
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2010 at 06:53 PM
It seems odd that the press hasn't written more about the threat of deflation. Paul Krugman, no inflation hawk he,... More
Newspapers’ Online Ads Are Worse Than You Think
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2010 at 03:22 PM
Martin Langeveld points out something interesting in Scripps's fourth-quarter earnings: Those already-dismal online advertising numbers you've seen for newspapers? They're... More
Fed Up, Consumers Down
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2010 at 06:00 AM
The Federal Reserve isn't exactly known as a friend of the little guy. And for good reason. So it borders... More
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
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.
