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Questionable News Judgment of the Day
By Ryan Chittum Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Why does The Wall Street Journal put a fourth-day news story about a golfer's minor car accident on page-two today?... More
Mark Pittman, Bloomberg’s Bulldog, Dies at 52
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM
We were stunned to learn a couple of days ago of top Bloomberg investigative reporter Mark Pittman's death. As I... More
Wednesday Links: Interchange, Make Believe, Overstock Junket
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 07:11 PM
The New York Times continues its series on plastic, looking at how capping interchange fees on credit cards has played... More
The Press Underplays the Bad-Banks News
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 03:35 PM
The major business press underplays news from the FDIC that its troubled-banks list soared to more than 550 in the... More
The Big Money: Shoppers Beware
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 01:36 PM
Heidi N. Moore makes some fine points in a piece over at The Big Money that riffs off Best Buy... More
WSJ Goes Easy on Private Equity in Oz
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Why does The Wall Street Journal think tax enforcement is "hostility"? That's what a news report on the front of... More
Tuesday Links: Sorkin, De-Indexing, the Google Problem
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2009 at 08:57 PM
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism shreds Andrew Ross Sorkin's column on Congress finally stiffening its spine today. The headline betrays... More
FT’s Wolf: Windfall Tax Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2009 at 04:37 PM
It's been somewhat baffling how little taxation has been discussed in the press as a possible answer to the problems... More
Murdoch, Microsoft, and Google
Getting paid for indexing news wouldn’t amount to much
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2009 at 05:01 AM
So Rupert Murdoch is indeed trying to squeeze the search engines for some cash, something we figured a couple of... More
BusinessWeek on Wall Street’s Nerve
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2009 at 04:29 PM
BusinessWeek's cover story this week on how Wall Street's shenanigans are threatening already-reeling local governments is a must-read. The lede... More
NYT’s Carr Finds Something New to Say about Oprah
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2009 at 09:46 AM
The New York Times's David Carr has a very smart column this morning analyzing Oprah Winfrey's massive, sustained business success.... More
Friday Links: Smart Money, Rodney King, Dilution
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2009 at 05:46 PM
Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was... More
Bloomberg Finds the Fed on Bubble Watch
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2009 at 05:31 PM
Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve... More
WSJ Editorial Scrutinizes Geithner on AIG Counterparties
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I wrote twice on Tuesday about the bizarre Tim Geithner quote that "the financial condition of the counterparties was not... More
Thursday Links: Custard Ken, (More) Media Layoffs, Chainsaw Guy
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2009 at 07:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one leder on Ken Griffin's giant hedge fund firm Citadel, which is... More
Prospect’s Take on Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2009 at 02:18 PM
The British magazine Prospect has one of the better explainers on too big to fail I've yet seen. It's a... More
A Good Bloomberg Profile of Elizabeth Warren
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Bloomberg this morning posts a really good profile of Elizabeth Warren, who, despite much of the press's dismissal of her... More
Wednesday Links: Philly’s Mod Policy, Fraud Force, WoW
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2009 at 08:03 PM
The New York Times looks at Philadelphia's way of dealing with the foreclosure crisis: Forcing homeowners and lenders face to... More
Tyrangiel Takes Over at BusinessWeek
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2009 at 02:27 PM
Bloomberg surprised just about everybody by picking Josh Tyrangiel of Time to helm the newly acquired (and newly gutted—it's sacking... More
WSJ Zeroes in on Goldman Collateral
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2009 at 10:19 AM
The Wall Street Journal fleshes out the Goldman Sachs backdoor bailout part of the Special Inspector General of the TARP's... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
