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The Journal’s Geithner-Gets-Mad Scoop

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

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…

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

(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

(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

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

Matthew Goldstein, the Reuters columnist who recently broke the Goldman Sachs code-theft story, has a good column today keeping alive... More

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

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