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Fortune Swallows the Banks’ Baloney
By Ryan Chittum Jun 18, 2009 at 02:27 PM
I had to read this Fortune story a couple of times to make sure it was really as credulous as... More
Surreal Estate
By Ryan Chittum Jun 18, 2009 at 01:05 PM
Check out this great slideshow from Newsweek showing some of the physical legacy the bust has left on the landscape.... More
Nocera Blasts Obama’s Regulation Reform
By Ryan Chittum Jun 18, 2009 at 09:56 AM
Joe Nocera of The New York Times has the must-read of the day on Obama's regulation-reform plan. Let's just say... More
Stock Market Math for Journalists
By Ryan Chittum Jun 17, 2009 at 04:04 PM
Too many people are impressed by the recent surge in stock prices. Believe it or not, journalists are people, too!... More
Martin Wolf Speak, You Listen
By Ryan Chittum Jun 17, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Martin Wolf's weekly column alone is worth paying for a Financial Times subscription. Or if you visit FT.com just for... More
Where Credit Is Due
A Financial Times reporter explores how a JP Morgan invention spurred the financial crisis
By Ryan Chittum Jun 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and... More
Rational on Rationing
By Ryan Chittum Jun 17, 2009 at 09:24 AM
David Leonhardt has an important column in The New York Times this morning looking at how the "rationing" buzzword is... More
The Economist on Banks’ Revisionist History
By Ryan Chittum Jun 16, 2009 at 06:45 PM
Applaud The Economist for a good dose of common sense, reminding bankers just how foolish they were and how close... More
The WSJ Questions Obama’s Securitization Fix
By Ryan Chittum Jun 16, 2009 at 09:55 AM
The Wall Street Journal this morning zeroes in on a critical aspect of the Obama administration's regulation proposals: What to... More
BusinessWeek Calls Out Obama on Reform
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2009 at 02:15 PM
The most disturbing business news of recent weeks has been the resurgent confidence of the banking lobby, which is scrapping... More
Times Keeps an Eye on the Workplace
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM
The New York Times this morning looks at what's turned out to be the surprising work phenomenon of this recession—the... More
Audit Handoff
By Ryan Chittum Jun 4, 2009 at 03:59 PM
Folks, I'll be on vacation until the 15th, but The Audit will go on in the meantime. Audit Manager Dean... More
Journal Drumbeat Continues on Wall Street Lobbying
By Ryan Chittum Jun 4, 2009 at 02:01 PM
The Journal continues to shine a bright light on the efforts by Wall Street to go back to the way... More
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Succeed, Too Few to Compete
By Ryan Chittum Jun 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture takes on a relative of the "too big to fail" mess: what he calls... More
WSJ Continues to Hype Congressional Expenses Non-Story
By Ryan Chittum Jun 4, 2009 at 08:59 AM
I've been somewhat baffled by the Journal's repeated page-one stories on congressional expenses. So far they've turned up just about... More
More on the Journal’s Banking-Lobby Story
By Ryan Chittum Jun 3, 2009 at 05:50 PM
Andrew Leonard of Salon makes a nice catch on the Journal's bank-lobbying story this morning, one I read right by—perhaps... More
The Times Finds Countrywide (BofA) Up to Its Old Tricks
By Ryan Chittum Jun 3, 2009 at 02:36 PM
The New York Times's page one today is loaded with business stories. My favorite is Peter S. Goodman's excellent one... More
More on Why Kindle Doesn’t Work for Newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM
It's good to see Jeff Bercovici land on his feet after Portfolio's demise. At Daily Finance, he quotes News Corp.... More
The Journal Continues to Focus on the Banking Lobby
By Ryan Chittum Jun 3, 2009 at 09:31 AM
I've been impressed recently by the business press's—particularly The Wall Street Journal's—reporting on the aggressive lobbying by the financial industry... More
WSJ: Citi Severs Huge Severance Packages
By Ryan Chittum Jun 2, 2009 at 09:29 AM
There's been a common-sense sighting on Wall Street. The Journal scoops that Citigroup is refusing to pay tens of millions... 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.
