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