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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 May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media... More
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 Apr 30, 2012 at 01:54 PM
I rarely miss an episode of NPR’s On the Media, which is essential listening for information on media trends and... More
Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM
This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More
Audit Notes: Charles Murray’s Lunch, Morgenson on Fairfax, Knight-Ridder’s iPad
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2012 at 07:59 PM
The Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders writes this on Twitter: What Charles Murray had for lunch while telling the FT... More
Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2012 at 08:37 PM
Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced... More
Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 13, 2012 at 08:05 PM
Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, writes a good Slate piece... More
Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2012 at 08:35 PM
Quote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley... More
Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More
Audit Notes: Limited Liability, Apple’s “Tons of Issues,” Foreclosure Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Feb 17, 2012 at 07:44 PM
The London Review of Books has a fascinating piece by the Bank of England's Andrew Haldane on excessive financial-industry risk.... More
Audit Notes: Steve Jobs
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2011 at 02:08 AM
Here's Wired's striking homepage reporting the death of Steve Jobs: Scroll down and you get gray text with obituary comments... More
Audit Notes: Steve Jobs, WSJ on Hacking, NYPD As Domestic CIA
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2011 at 07:02 PM
Awful news just hit the tape that Steve Jobs's health has finally forced him to resign as CEO of Apple:... More
Audit Notes: The Bloomberg Way, Conflicts in Congress, Apple and Wikileakspedia
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2010 at 06:45 PM
One of the knocks on Bloomberg News is that the place is a bit, well, cultish. This quote doesn't help... More
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 May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this... More
Ebooks and Antitrust
The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Back in 2010, a giant retailer had 90 percent of a market—a near total monopoly (monopsony, if you want to... More
Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 24, 2011 at 01:15 PM
The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious... More
iPad Magazines: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating
Tablet news following a pattern as old as paper itself
By Zachary Sniderman Jun 21, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Last December, headlines decreed that the digital publishing world was falling apart. After an initial surge, iPad magazine sales were... More
Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey
A classy confession doesn’t negate the crime
By Lawrence Pintak Mar 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell... More
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)
Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM
The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes... More
More On Why I’m Talking About Tim Cook’s Sexuality
By Felix Salmon Aug 26, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Every so often I put a blog post up, start getting feedback on it, and realize I’ve got things horribly... More
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 Feb 10, 2012 at 04:16 PM
David Pogue of The New York Times looks at the "Dilemma of Cheap Electronics" raised by the paper's recent, outstanding... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
