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LAT’s Kristof Keeps an Eye on the Overdraft Racket
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2009 at 01:07 PM
The press too often loses interest in a story once some change is done to appease the restive, however incomplete... More
Bloomberg Scoop on Twitter’s Search Engine Payday
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2009 at 09:57 AM
We finally know how much Twitter got paid by Google and Microsoft's Bing to index its content: $25 million. Bloomberg... More
Friday Links: Under the TARP. WaPo Results, Shadow Space
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 05:19 PM
The Wall Street Journal does some solid reporting on the machinations behind the TARP exits. This is interesting: Some Citigroup... More
Walk the Line or Walk Away?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 03:28 PM
Blogworld's got an interesting back-and-forth going on about the morality of walking away from a mortgage. I've got to admit,... More
Going Beyond Glass-Steagall II
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 10:17 AM
John McCain is getting all mavericky again. He's now on board for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the breakup of... More
Thursday Links: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Fan/Fred, Tablets
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 07:51 PM
I've suggested this for a good while now, only half in jest, and now The Miami Herald is doing it:... More
More on Why We Won’t Tax Banker Bonuses
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Nobody loves a critic, they say, and from my experience at The Audit it's mostly true. So I love it... More
Deficit Reduction and Windfall Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM
There a number of reasons for instituting a windfall tax on bankers, and they've been most ably spelled out by... More
Wednesday Links: SEC and CDOs, Meyerson, Wasted Crisis
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 06:49 PM
Here's more ammo for the just-blow-up-the-SEC-and-start-again crowd: NPR's Planet Money and ProPublica report on a questionnaire sent to CDO market... More
WaPo on (Another) U.S. Giveaway to Citi
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 03:44 PM
(UPDATE: I originally said in the headline and lede that the Post had a scoop here. That's not right. The... More
Bloomberg Tough on Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Bloomberg takes a good look at the fading chance to anything meaningful to reform the financial system, noting that "Two... More
WSJ Excels on Retirement Risk for Execs, Employees
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM
I love this Wall Street Journal story this morning on how CEOs, despite their rich paydays, often get automatic gains... More
Monday Links: Banks Winning, Volcker’s ATM, TARP Paybacks
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 06:23 PM
This is a really solid Bloomberg story on lobbying and how the bank lobby has really won, even if new... More
Mark Pittman, In His Own Words, On Camera
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 03:12 PM
You've read quite a bit by the late Mark Pittman of Bloomberg. You've read quite a bit about him here... More
Carr on the Journal’s News Pages Moving Right
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 10:22 AM
David Carr has a good column about the rightward tilt of Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal, which before he took... More
Friday Links: Goldman and AIG, Bernie’s Life, Why a Windfall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a major story tonight, presumably slated for page one of tomorrow's paper, showing that Goldman... More
Early Results from the Newsday Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 06:02 PM
It's no surprise that Newsday's Web traffic declined after it put up a paywall. What is surprising is how it... More
WSJ Follows the Loopholes on Regulation Bill
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 05:21 PM
The Journal found a good angle for its curtain-raising story on the House financial-regulation vote today. The paper digs into... More
Overplaying Goldman’s Bonus Move
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) is making some baby steps on pay, but the press way overplays what is essentially... More
Thursday Links: Sorkin, Rosie, Ginnie Mae
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin sounds better notes on The Daily Show than he does in most of his own columns. "The... 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.
