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WSJ “Hears” Another False Note from Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum May 14, 2009 at 09:40 AM
The Journal has a solid "Heard on the Street" this morning about how all the TARP carping by banks doesn't... More
Kindle Is Just Another Way for Papers to Lose Money
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2009 at 06:47 PM
I wrote the other day about why the Kindle—at least in its current incarnation—isn't going to save the newspaper industry.... More
But Will the Bankers Go Galt?
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM
The Journal scoops that Obama is formulating a broad plan to regulate pay in the financial industry to make sure... More
WSJ: Conflicts at Goldman
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2009 at 09:37 AM
The Journal's piece on conflicts of interest at Goldman Sachs's commercial real estate funds is a good look at yet... More
The Times Overdraws on Community Banks
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2009 at 03:55 PM
I wanted to like this New York Times story today on small banks and how they've far outperformed their bigger... More
Goldman Settles Mortgage Probe, But the Press Buries It
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Seems to me that the press is underplaying the news that Goldman Sachs agreed to a $60 million settlement with... More
Kicking the Tires at The New York Times Company
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Fortune has some fascinating reporting on the future of The New York Times as a business. It scoops that David... More
The Journal Can’t See Through the Hedges
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2009 at 09:25 AM
How do you write about the hedge-fund industry being ticked off at Obama without noting one of the biggest reason... More
WSJ’s Bold Plan to Expand Subscription Revenues
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2009 at 08:26 AM
Rupert Murdoch of late has been making the boldest noises of anyone in the newspaper industry on the search for... More
Press Buries the GAO’s Damning Report on the SEC
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Speaking of Moe Tkacik: She points out a General Accountability Office report on the SEC that got woefully underplayed in... More
Journal’s Accountability Reporting Gets a Major Scalp
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2009 at 09:07 AM
That didn't take long. Stephen Friedman, the New York Fed chairman and Goldman Sachs director shareholder, whose conflicts were exposed... More
Center for Public Integrity Puts the Subprime Puzzle Together
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2009 at 04:02 PM
The Center for Public Integrity yesterday released a dynamite report on the interconnections between Wall Street and the subprime-mortgage industry.... More
Murdoch Leads the Charge on Paid Content
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2009 at 01:16 PM
Say what you will about Rupert Murdoch (and we have), the guy's a smart businessman. Last week, I reported that... More
They Are CNBC
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Make sure you don't miss my friend Moe Tkacik's piece on CNBC, hot off the presses in the Columbia Journalism... More
WSJ Compares German and American Safety Nets
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2009 at 09:15 AM
I like this Wall Street Journal page-one "leder" looking at the difference in the European and American safety nets and... More
Kindle a Newspaper Life Saver?
By Ryan Chittum May 6, 2009 at 03:12 PM
Is this the gadget that will save the newspaper? That angle has been, if not dominant, then significant in the... More
Bloomberg Squawked, Regulators Balked
By Ryan Chittum May 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Speaking of insider trading of credit-default swaps (you just can't get enough!), Felix Salmon of Reuters digs up a prescient... More
Credit-Default Swaps: WSJ vs. NYT
By Ryan Chittum May 6, 2009 at 09:38 AM
Which story about insider trading of credit-default swaps would you rather read? Here's the Journal's C1 lede: The Securities and... More
The Journal After Murdoch
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2009 at 05:12 PM
The latest issue of our magazine is out, and the first piece we've put online is Liza Featherstone's look at... More
BizWeek Takes on Confusing Contracts
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2009 at 01:53 PM
BusinessWeek uses the administration's plan to crack down on credit-card companies as a jumping-off point to look at how it... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Oops! LAX TSA officer shamed a BoingBoing writer’s daughter
And he used his media clout to make it a thing
Can ladymags do serious journalism?
Some people don’t seem to think so
Atlantic launches weekly iPhone mag
The paid product its prez teased a few months back has arrived
The usefulness of pie charts, in two pie charts
Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But if all those words are bogging you down, WaPo has a simpler version
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.
