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The Journal’s Geithner-Gets-Mad Scoop
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2009 at 02:56 PM
The Journal has a juicy scoop this morning on the goings-on inside the Obama administration. It seems Treasury Secretary Tim... More
The Biz Press’s Incomplete (Print) Efforts on BofA
But a Journal blog gets it right
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2009 at 10:42 AM
After news broke yesterday that the SEC had reached a $33 million settlement with Bank of America for misleading investors... More
When the Media Partied Like It Was, Well…
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2009 at 03:59 PM
David Carr's New York Times column today is a useful reminder that the good old days for the media business... More
The FT Calls This a Front-Page Story?
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2009 at 09:43 AM
The Financial Times has a poor story this morning on how Goldman Sachs's reputation has been battered by the negative... More
High-Frequency Trading and Crash Risks
Reuters’ Goldstein and an NYT op-ed raise questions about a potential feedback loop
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM
We've been keeping an eye on the high-frequency trading story since Matthew Goldstein of Reuters broke the story of a... More
Print Newspapers Still Dominate Readers’ Attention
Another look at how much time is spent reading newspapers online and in print
By Ryan Chittum Jul 30, 2009 at 07:46 PM
For those of us of a certain small-but-growing subset—the blogging, commenting, techno-savvy, early-adopting, extreme-news consumers—it's sometimes easy to forget that... More
Got It Wrong? WSJ Op-Ed Page Has a Spot for You
By Ryan Chittum Jul 30, 2009 at 01:27 PM
The Wall Street Journal editorial page saw fit to print an op-ed from Donald L. Luskin today about how the... More
Times Finds More Mortgage Industry Conflicts
By Ryan Chittum Jul 30, 2009 at 09:55 AM
The New York Times has an important story on page one about the conflicts of interest at mortgage companies that... More
NYT’s Digs Into Pension Benefit Guaranty Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jul 29, 2009 at 01:29 PM
The New York Times delves into the scandal at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, whose head greased the wheels for... More
Bloomberg’s Obvious High-Frequency Trading Story
By Ryan Chittum Jul 28, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Put this Bloomberg piece in the You Don't Say! category. It reports that high-frequency traders say high-frequency trading is a... More
WSJ Scoop: CFTC Will Blame Traders for Oil Spike
By Ryan Chittum Jul 28, 2009 at 09:46 AM
The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop this morning that the Obama administration is set to report next month... More
More on the Associated Press Copyright Move
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2009 at 05:40 PM
My post refuting some of the nonsense going around about the new AP initiative on copyright kicked up a bit... More
The Journal Analyzes a Government “Gift”
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2009 at 09:49 AM
The Wall Street Journal has a nifty bit of analysis this morning looking at how much money banks are saving... More
Relax, Bloggers. The AP Isn’t Out to Get You
By Ryan Chittum Jul 24, 2009 at 03:54 PM
I started a post this morning about the issue causing much, um, consternation amongst the media blogs today: The Associated... More
Weil on the End of “Nothing to See Here” Accounting
By Ryan Chittum Jul 24, 2009 at 02:49 PM
Jonathan Weil of Bloomberg reports that the accounting-standards board is going to actually make companies (read: banks) price assets on... More
The Times Takes on High-Frequency Trading
By Ryan Chittum Jul 24, 2009 at 09:53 AM
The New York Times puts the high-frequency trading issue front and center on the nation's agenda this morning with an... More
Newspaper Readers Buy Papers for the Content
You’d think that would be obvious. Plus, the Walter E. Hussman Jr. Theorem
By Ryan Chittum Jul 23, 2009 at 02:18 PM
(Note: This is part three of a three-part post. Read part one here and part two here.) I think it's... More
NYT Now Gets As Much Money from Circulation as from Ads
A landmark event for the rapidly changing newspaper industry that points toward a new model
By Ryan Chittum Jul 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM
(Note: This is part two of a three-part post. Read part one here.) If current trend lines hold up, circulation... More
Circulation Revenue Only Thing Growing at Newspapers
McClatchy and New York Times Company find a revenue stream that goes up
By Ryan Chittum Jul 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM
The New York Times reported some good news today, namely that it was profitable in the second quarter. But, of... More
Reuters’ Goldstein Raises High-Frequency Trading Issue
By Ryan Chittum Jul 22, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Matthew Goldstein, the Reuters columnist who recently broke the Goldman Sachs code-theft story, has a good column today keeping alive... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
