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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
Thursday Links: More Fed/AIG, Reuters and SAC, Netflix
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2010 at 07:35 PM
The New York Times's DealBook prints the Federal Reserve/AIG emails spotlighted in Bloomberg's scoop this morning, though as the FT's... More
WSJ Revisits the Carried-Interest Tax
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2010 at 04:19 PM
What ever happened to the carried-interest tax? The Wall Street Journal looks at that today, reporting that hedge funds and... More
Bloomberg Continues to Lead on the Fed and AIG
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Bloomberg has the story of the day today, an eye-raising scoop that the New York Federal Reserve, then headed by... More
Wednesday Links: Double Dip, Fed Failure, Chicago School
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2010 at 07:47 PM
Randall W. Forsyth of Barron's is calling a double-dip recession, pointing to the declining money supply calculated by John Williams'... More
BW on How the Dems Watered Down Reform
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2010 at 05:14 PM
Bloomberg's acquisition of BusinessWeek may be paying off for its journalism. The cover story in BW is by two Bloomberg... 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.
