Tuesday Links: Pay Matters, Tablet Econ, Windfall Tax, TBTF

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2009 at 05:11 PM

This is a must-read Financial Times column from a few days ago on why compensation really is an important issue... More

Reuters Overpromises, Underdelivers on New “Crisis”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2009 at 02:58 PM

Here's a Reuters story that could desperately use some of that long-form, enterprise reporting the wire service says it's going... More

The Times Gets Tough on the Credit Raters

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM

The New York Times takes an excellent and necessary look at the Big Three credit-rating firms—critically important enablers of the... More

Monday Links: What About JP?, BB BW, McLean on Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 7, 2009 at 09:53 PM

Bloomberg's David Reilly writes a good column pointing out that while Goldman Sachs is getting all the flak right now,... More

WSJ Unbalanced on Business and Carbon

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 7, 2009 at 09:15 PM

The Wall Street Journal goes A1 with a "you don't say!" story saying Big Business is mad about the EPA... More

WSJ Warns That Systemic Risks Remain

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 7, 2009 at 06:05 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a good column this morning warning pretty starkly about the huge risks that are still... More

Friday Links: More Enterprise, Citi TARP, Snake Oil Salesmen

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2009 at 05:41 PM

Good news in the news business (really!). Reuters tells PaidContent it's committing more resources to longer-form enterprise reporting as part... More

Reuters Scoop: FBI Eyes on SAC Capital

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Reuters has the humdinger story of the day. What's mostly a profile of FBI agent B.J. Kang breaks quite a... More

Bloomberg Covers Yet Another Swap Flop

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM

A Bloomberg story this morning points (me, anyway,) to a simple conclusion: state and local governments need to stay away... More

Thursday Links: FDIC Fudge, Plutocracy, Pale Sales

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2009 at 07:06 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil says the FDIC is setting a real fine example for its charges by fudging its own books.... More

NYT Inside the Comcast-GE Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2009 at 04:12 PM

The New York Times is just flat-out impressive this morning on the Comcast deal for NBC Universal. Its Andrew Ross... More

A WSJ Look at Creepy Iranian Repression

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2009 at 06:01 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an important piece of foreign reportage on the front page this morning. Farnaz Fassihi reports... More

Wednesday Links: Sí, SI; NYCWSJ; NHL Dollar

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2009 at 04:57 PM

I've thought for a while now that the last best hope for newspapers and magazines was some sort of e-reader... More

They’re Baaack

A crucial FT report shows egregious Bubble Era lending practices returning

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2009 at 01:39 PM

David Leonhardt is somewhat sanguine about the state of the financial system given its apparent steadiness after the Dubai World... More

A Little WSJ Slice of Trump’s Life

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2009 at 06:15 AM

Here's a good Wall Street Journal story this morning on yet another Trump feud, this one with a former casino... More

Tuesday Links: Goldie’s Guns, WSJ.com, Reprints

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2009 at 06:39 PM

Alice Schroeder, Buffett's biographer, writes in her Bloomberg column that she hears anecdotally that Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) bankers... More

Just Another Cyber Monday

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2009 at 04:18 PM

Oh, brother. The fifth annual round of "Cyber Monday" stories are here to hype a pure concoction of the online... More

Moral Force

Why Mark Pittman matters

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2009 at 09:47 AM

The first time I ever talked to Pittman was for an Audit Interview back in February. We do these Q&A's... More

Monday Links; Pittman Roundup, Carr Elegy for NYC Media

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 30, 2009 at 08:29 PM

Paul Conley, who worked for the late Mark Pittman at Bloomberg, memorializes Pittman as a "a bigger-than-life, over-the-top, lovable stereotype... More

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