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By Ryan Chittum Sep 16, 2009 at 07:04 PM
Felix and Barry do it. So can I! The NYT says China's slap back at the U.S. tire tariff may... More
Mint Makes a Mint
But press coverage of the $170 million deal leaves a bad taste
By Ryan Chittum Sep 16, 2009 at 04:11 PM
The press, institutionally, has an all-too-short memory. But have we already forgotten some of the lessons of the tech bubble,... More
Trade, “Buy American,” and the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Sep 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Trade reporting has picked up in the last couple of days after the Obama administration slapped a fat tariff on... More
WSJ Will Charge for Mobile Access
By Ryan Chittum Sep 15, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Rupert Murdoch is putting his money—or more accurately, "your money"—where his mouth is, announcing that his Wall Street Journal will... More
The Press Hypes This Morning’s Retail Sales Numbers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM
There they go again. The press is out of the gate with the first news stories on the retail sales... More
Anniversary Stories, Lehman Brothers, and Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2009 at 06:22 PM
We're still wading through the anniversary stories in the business press, one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered... More
Looking at BusinessWeek’s Prospects
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Somebody finally got a hold of the BusinessWeek sale documents, and they clarify the magazine's prospects a bit. The New... More
BW Looks at Effectiveness of Proposed Reforms
By Ryan Chittum Sep 11, 2009 at 05:35 PM
We've been watching press coverage of regulatory reform closely here at The Audit for several months. The press has done... More
Lessons from “Sesame Street”
PBS hits home with a look at the economic fallout on families
By Ryan Chittum Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Last night, I saw some of the best journalism on regular working folks that I've seen in some time. But... More
WSJ: Some Restaurant Won’t Take Cash Now
By Ryan Chittum Sep 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM
File this one under odd news judgment: A Greenwich Village restaurant is no longer taking cash. The Wall Street Journal... More
The Times on a Real Estate Deal Gone (Deservedly) Bad
By Ryan Chittum Sep 10, 2009 at 02:22 PM
The New York Times on page one today looks at the fate of the buyout of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and... More
WSJ on the Prospects for Reform
By Ryan Chittum Sep 9, 2009 at 05:48 PM
The Wall Street Journal has an okay page-one look at the prospects for financial reform, concluding that they've "faltered" as... More
The Times Takes on Overdraft “Protection”
By Ryan Chittum Sep 9, 2009 at 07:00 AM
The New York Times goes big this morning on the overdraft "protection" racket with a front-page story looking at this... More
Somebody Else (!) Takes on the Murdoch Journal
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2009 at 05:31 PM
The blog NYTPicker, in the course of praising a page one Times story yesterday, turns its critical eye on The... More
The Unlearned Lessons of Lehman, a Year Later
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2009 at 03:26 PM
September 15 is a week away, so here come the Lehman Brothers retrospectives. First out of the gate is Bloomberg,... More
WSJ on a New Chamber of Commerce Campaign
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM
The Wall Street Journal has a scoop today that the Chamber of Commerce is funding a $2 million ad campaign... More
More on Print and Online Reader Revenue
By Ryan Chittum Sep 4, 2009 at 04:23 PM
Michael Masnick of TechDirt took issue last week with my post showing the wide disparity between the value of online... More
Unemployment (Still) Worse Than You Think
By Ryan Chittum Sep 4, 2009 at 09:53 AM
The press reports the bad news this morning that the unemployment rate closed in on 10 percent last month, hitting... More
A Good Dose of Common Sense Heard on the Street
By Ryan Chittum Sep 3, 2009 at 06:02 PM
The Journal's Simon Nixon has a nice Heard on the Street column today, noting that "Bankers Have Only Themselves to... More
Calculating the Benefits of Cash for Clunkers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 3, 2009 at 01:24 PM
Yesterday I tipped The Audit's cap to a nifty bit of analysis from Calculated Risk pointing out that the real... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
