Tuesday Links: Circulation, Mouthpieces, Galleon

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 07:17 PM

One of the critical questions for what remains of the newspaper industry's near-to-medium-term future is how much of the recent... More

Seattle Times Reviews WaMu, Hometown Predator

An excellent postmortem details a corrupted culture

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 04:42 PM

Hats off to The Seattle Times for an excellent two-part series investigating the demise of Washington Mutual, onetime hometown hero... More

Bloomberg on AIG as Banks’ Backdoor Bailout

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Bloomberg has an important story today on the bailout of the banks through AIG. Estimating that an essentially bankrupt company... More

Monday Links: Circ Collapse, Main Street, Patriots

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2009 at 07:46 PM

At the Nieman Journalism Lab, Martin Langeveld digs into the catastrophic newspaper numbers. Every six month increment for (weekday) newspaper... More

NYT Goes A1 on TBTF

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2009 at 04:19 PM

Too big to fail makes the front page of The New York Times this morning, which reports that Congress, specifically... More

Only One to Charge Online, Only One to Gain Paying Customers

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Congratulations to The Wall Street Journal, which now reclaims the title, held by USA Today for years, of the nation's... More

About Those Chamber of Commerce “Members”

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2009 at 08:52 AM

Our Greg Marx does a good job looking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce member-count dispute, which has laid bare... More

Friday Links: Foreboding, Cell-less, anti-Moores

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 23, 2009 at 06:11 PM

The FT's Gillian Tett feels a "sense of foreboding" about the current "rally fueled by cheap money," otherwise known as... More

Much Ado About Not Much on Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 23, 2009 at 05:43 PM

Wall Street pay has been all over the news the last couple of days, leading the Journal and the Times... More

The High Bubble Era in Retrospect

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 23, 2009 at 09:36 AM

"A growing family with a lot of debt. A young couple with no down payment. A business owner whose income... More

Thursday Links: BW’s History, Lipman?, Job Scramble

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 22, 2009 at 07:09 PM

Mediaite has a swell feature on BusinessWeek covers through the decades, from the days when it was called The Business... More

Goodwill Hunting at BusinessWeek

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 22, 2009 at 04:19 PM

BusinessWeek has an interesting piece on the accounting funny business companies employ to smooth out their earnings or to patch... More

Circulation Surpasses Ad Revenue at NYT

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM

Back in July, The Audit noted that a big shift had happened in the news business. Circulation revenue was growing... More

Wednesday Links: “Read and Weep,” Break Up, WSJ Excuses

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2009 at 08:40 PM

Uh oh, Bank of America. Some pretty damning emails leaked out of Congress yesterday about what BofA executives knew about... More

WaPo on Hard Times in Bank City USA

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2009 at 07:20 PM

The Washington Post has a very good story on the fall of Charlotte's once-mighty banking industry and the impact on... More

Twitter, Facebook Get Paid. What About the Press?

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2009 at 01:52 PM

So Microsoft's Bing search engine is going to pay Twitter and Facebook to have their users' posts show up in... More

Sorkin’s Major Scoops on the Goldman/Paulson Nexus

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2009 at 01:10 PM

Felix Salmon has been digging some choice nuggets out of Andrew Ross Sorkin's huge new book "Too Big to Fail."... More

NYT Takes on Obama’s Volcker Exile

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Why won't the Obama administration listen to its most credible economic adviser? That's the question—and it's an essential one— asked... More

Tuesday Links: Insiders, Preemption, iPhone Mags

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2009 at 07:32 PM

The Journal floods the zone on the big hedge-fund insider-trading story. It goes page one with a report noting a... More

Live-Blogging the Corporate Press Release

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2009 at 06:51 PM

Live-blogging is a relatively new responsibility in the journalist's job description—which now includes regular blogging, picture-taking, Web video, Twitter, live... More