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The WSJ on Another Junk-Debt Boom
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM
The bubble is back. If you hadn't already figured that out, that's the lesson from The Wall Street Journal's excellent... More
Audit Notes: Ignoring State Regs, Busy Bhatia, Volcker Vacuum
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2010 at 06:38 PM
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission talked to state regulators—the only ones with credibility on the predatory-lending issue and you might... More
A WSJ Story Shows TBTF Effects on the Market
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2010 at 04:18 PM
The Wall Street Journal is excellent today to spotlight a sudden jump in ARM interest rates on New Year's Eve... More
Steven Pearlstein: Then and Now
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM
What a difference a year makes! Here's the Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein last February: These guys won’t be happy until... More
Audit Notes: Goldie’s AIG CDS, Smarter Readers, Adversarial Stance
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2010 at 07:46 PM
James Keller has an interesting post over at RealClearMarkets on the Goldman Sachs/AIG controversy, which he says is "Likely Worse... More
Parsing the Latest Online-Charging Poll
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2010 at 03:49 PM
There's yet another poll out there reporting the obvious: Most people say they won't pay for something they get for... More
Revisiting the Journal’s TBTF Citi Story
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2010 at 05:34 AM
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism calls me out for swallowing a Wall Street Journal story showing the Citigroup side in... More
Audit Notes: Frontrunning, Walk Away!, Housing (Still) Deteriorating
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2010 at 06:29 PM
The New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs admitted in an email to clients it has traded ahead of its... More
Indirect Subsidies Are Bailouts, Too
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2010 at 03:37 PM
Dan Gross at Slate pushes back against the false notion that the banks have paid back all their bailouts—a nasty... More
HuffPost Expands on the Obama Bank-Tax Plan
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2010 at 10:16 AM
That bank-tax reported yesterday looks like it will be broader and tougher than initially reported. The Huffington Post quotes a... More
Audit Notes: Goner Jobs, Angelides Questions, More AIG
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2010 at 07:23 PM
The WSJ warns that any recovery in employment is going to be slowed by the fact that many of the... More
BizWeek Lures Clicks with Bad Photoshop
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2010 at 03:35 PM
This Bloomberg BusinessWeek slideshow on the best places to raise your kids for its is unintentionally (I think) funny. How... More
The Angelides Opportunity
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2010 at 10:15 AM
The Angelides Commission starting tomorrow is a key moment in the financial crisis. If it turns out to be a... More
Audit Notes: Dealism, AIG SECrets, Fed Fights Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2010 at 01:13 AM
The business-press criticism quote of the day goes to The New York Times for this gem from Eduardo Mestre, an... More
WSJ on Citi’s TBTF Money Pipeline
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2010 at 07:29 PM
There are a few really interesting things in the the Journal's story today on Citigroup and some of the benefits... More
BW Focuses on the Temp Economy
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2010 at 03:51 PM
BusinessWeek's good cover story this week looks at the temping of the American workforce. Wait a second, you say. Haven't... More
Times Shares
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM
The idea of the day comes from Business Insider's Henry Blodget, who has some smart advice for Sulzbergers: Tap the... More
Audit Links: Jobless Stats, Reuters and SAC, LATe
By Ryan Chittum Jan 8, 2010 at 06:59 PM
The unemployment numbers came in worse than expected this morning and the Washington Post's Frank Ahrens points out that they're... More
WSJ Eyeballs Upcoming Bank of America Bonuses
By Ryan Chittum Jan 8, 2010 at 03:38 PM
The Wall Street Journal continues to spotlight the record—or near-record—pay coming on Wall Street. Remember Bank of America until recently... More
The Fed and AIG, Day Two
By Ryan Chittum Jan 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM
All too often the press seems to want to downplay stories broken by a competitor. So it's good to see... 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.
