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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
Incurred on the Street: Windfall Tax on Bankers?
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2009 at 02:42 PM
I've been wondering when the taxation solution would pop up in the financial press regarding the record bonuses Wall Street... More
The Post Gets Perky on Bailout-Bank Pay
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2009 at 09:57 AM
The Washington Post spotlights this morning a somewhat-overlooked (this year, anyway) compensation aspect of our corporate-welfare kingpins: perks. These are... More
Monday Links: Foreclosure Homeless, NYT Cuts, Fed Up?
By Ryan Chittum Oct 19, 2009 at 07:20 PM
— The New York Times profiles a one-time homeless-shelter operator who now lives in one. It says the number of... 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.
