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1. May 3, 2012 06:00 AM

   3 things big media can do to save independent journalism

   This is adapted from Rebecca MacKinnon's 2012 Hearst New Media Lecture, given at Columbia's J-school on April 19

   By The Editors

   By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media companies will be helping preserve conditions where a diverse media contingent can thrive. Specific points: 1. As app-based dissemination and social media supplant the Web, what’s good for the big media companies is not necessarily good for free speech and...

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2. April 30, 2012 01:54 PM

   On the Media silent on NPR retraction

   The show should address This American Life's disavowal of its Mike Daisey story

   By Justin D. Martin

   I rarely miss an episode of NPR’s On the Media, which is essential listening for information on media trends and best practices. When something gut-pummeling happens in the media world, I expect OTM to discuss it. My faith in the program has recently been shaken, as it has yet to broadcast a single phoneme on NPR’s retracted story, “Mr. Daisey...

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3. January 14, 2011 09:09 PM

   Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda

   By Ryan Chittum

   This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into the neighborhood and threatening the mom and pops there, just isn't coherent. When Duane Reade opened a new store a few months ago in Brooklyn, it faced opposition from residents loyal to a local pharmacy. So it decided to include...

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4. March 12, 2012 07:59 PM

   Audit Notes: Charles Murray’s Lunch, Morgenson on Fairfax, Knight-Ridder’s iPad

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders writes this on Twitter: What Charles Murray had for lunch while telling the FT that the working class had become culturally irresponsible The FT's Edward Luce did the lunch interview: Our black truffle has arrived. Murray’s martini glass is empty. The waiter pours him a taster from the bottle of Gavi di Gavi, an...

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5. February 24, 2012 08:37 PM

   Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall

   By Ryan Chittum

   Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced China factories, shreds The New York Times's David Pogue over his apologia for Apple's labor practices (I criticized Pogue for an earlier post on the Apple controversy). In a mostly excellent rant (apart from questioning whether Pogue is being "manipulative"...

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6. April 13, 2012 08:05 PM

   Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition

   By Ryan Chittum

   Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, writes a good Slate piece on the Justice Department's misguided suit against Apple and book publishers for fighting Amazon's ebooks monopoly. Lynn writes about why low prices aren't always good for consumers: For 200 years after the Boston Tea Party, anti-monopoly enforcement aimed mainly at...

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7. March 16, 2012 08:35 PM

   Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr

   By Ryan Chittum

   Quote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman saying this about Greg Smith's famous Goldman Sachs kissoff in The New York Times: Morgan Stanley’s Gorman said he told staff not to circulate the op-ed. “I was surprised that anyone would run an op-ed piece based...

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8. January 20, 2012 09:43 PM

   Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author

   By Ryan Chittum

   Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for a law firm that represented a "Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud" (emphasis mine): The firm, Covington & Burling, is one of Washington's biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and...

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9. February 17, 2012 07:44 PM

   Audit Notes: Limited Liability, Apple’s “Tons of Issues,” Foreclosure Scandal

   By Ryan Chittum

   The London Review of Books has a fascinating piece by the Bank of England's Andrew Haldane on excessive financial-industry risk. He looks back at the history of the British financial system to help shed light on our modern-day troubles. Until the late 19th century, Britain's banks were all unlimited-liability companies, meaning owners were on the hook for all losses, and...

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10. October 6, 2011 02:08 AM

    Audit Notes: Steve Jobs

    By Ryan Chittum

    Here's Wired's striking homepage reporting the death of Steve Jobs: Scroll down and you get gray text with obituary comments from various luminaries. It's gorgeous—more like a magazine cover than the jumble of text and pictures we normally see on news sites. — Brian Lam writes an obit for Jobs and tells some of the backstory on Gizmodo's infamous scoop...

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11. August 24, 2011 07:02 PM

    Audit Notes: Steve Jobs, WSJ on Hacking, NYPD As Domestic CIA

    By Ryan Chittum

    Awful news just hit the tape that Steve Jobs's health has finally forced him to resign as CEO of Apple: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple''s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. If there's any...

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12. December 21, 2010 06:45 PM

    Audit Notes: The Bloomberg Way, Conflicts in Congress, Apple and Wikileakspedia

    By Ryan Chittum

    One of the knocks on Bloomberg News is that the place is a bit, well, cultish. This quote doesn't help matters. We noticed the other day top dog Matt Winkler getting a little weird channeling Mayor Mike's views for the new Bloomberg View editorials. Jeff Bercovici of Forbes talked to Winkler recently about Bloomberg View and got this stuff (emphasis...

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13. May 3, 2012 06:00 AM

    Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet

    This is the text of this year's Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School

    By Rebecca MacKinnon

    How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this year’s graduating class of students—and most of their generation—have spent their entire news-consuming and producing lives in a digitally networked environment. This digitally networked environment has not only transformed how professional journalists do their jobs—or how news organizations package and...

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14. April 11, 2012 07:56 PM

    Ebooks and Antitrust

    The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon

    By Ryan Chittum

    Back in 2010, a giant retailer had 90 percent of a market—a near total monopoly (monopsony, if you want to be precise). This company tried to dictate pricing in the industry via its dominant position (aided significantly, to be sure, by its early innovation in the market) and by the fact that it can use its profits elsewhere to subsidize...

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15. March 24, 2011 01:15 PM

    Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells

    By Lauren Kirchner

    The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious transitions. Readability was originally launched as a browser plug-in that stripped web pages of distracting links and ads and left only text on a white page. Last month, it released a new version that sounds more like the Kachingle model...

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16. June 21, 2011 11:50 AM

    iPad Magazines: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating

    Tablet news following a pattern as old as paper itself

    By Zachary Sniderman

    Last December, headlines decreed that the digital publishing world was falling apart. After an initial surge, iPad magazine sales were steadily—sometimes precipitously—dropping. According to a report that cited numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, November was a bad month for the iPad and iPad magazines. Vanity Fair went from an average 10,500 digital sales (August-October) down to 8,700. GQ...

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17. March 20, 2012 11:08 AM

    Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey

    A classy confession doesn’t negate the crime

    By Lawrence Pintak

    Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell on its sword over its bad Apple episode. The gesture was a noble one. As CJR’s Ryan Chittum put it: With the stunning news that This American Life is retracting its episode on Apple and Foxconn after finding that Mike...

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18. August 20, 2012 02:06 PM

    Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)

    Microsoft's 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger

    By Ryan Chittum

    The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes Biggest Company in History, Passing Microsoft in 1999 CNNMoney: Apple is now the most valuable company of all time The Wall Street Journal's lede: Apple is now the most valuable company of all time. USA Today: Apple sets record for...

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19. August 26, 2011 02:50 PM

    More On Why I’m Talking About Tim Cook’s Sexuality

    By Felix Salmon

    Every so often I put a blog post up, start getting feedback on it, and realize I’ve got things horribly wrong. And then sometimes, very rarely, the opposite happens: I put up a post and discover that I was more right than I ever suspected. My post on Tim Cook’s sexuality is one of those times. Which is not to...

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20. February 10, 2012 04:16 PM

    Pogue Misses on Cheap Gadgets and Foreign Labor

    The cost difference between China and the U.S. is less than he imagines

    By Ryan Chittum

    David Pogue of The New York Times looks at the "Dilemma of Cheap Electronics" raised by the paper's recent, outstanding series on Apple's manufacturing policies. But it's less of a dilemma than he makes out. Pogue reports that building iPhones in the U.S. would raise the price of a $200 machine to $350. If that sounds a little steep to...

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