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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Austerity

1. March 28, 2012 07:34 PM

   Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in disposable income for each decile of the Irish population in 2010, after the country's leaders, who had made one of the all-time stupidest (or most craven) moves ever in assuming the obligations of its giant banks, imposed harsh austerity programs...

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2. January 30, 2012 07:56 PM

   Audit Notes: Data Pool 3, The UK Prints, Copyright

   By Ryan Chittum

   Scotland Yard arrested four top current and former Sun journalists and a cop. The Guardian's Nick Davies gives us the context and says it's a major development: And technicians have retrieved an enormous reservoir of material from News International's central computer servers, including one particularly vast collection that may yet prove to be the stick that breaks the media mogul's...

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3. May 10, 2012 07:58 PM

   Audit notes: WSJ dings austerity, Weisenthal, The Global Mail

   By Ryan Chittum

   If you're looking to get up to speed on what happened with the euro and Greece, you could do a lot worse than Marcus Walker's excellent page-one story in The Wall Street Journal today. The Journal recounts how Angela Merkel and the Germans' disastrous insistence on punitive austerity has led Greece to the point of collapse—and threatens the entire European...

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4. October 25, 2011 02:31 PM

   Austerity and Objectivity

   Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?

   By Ryan Chittum

   The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are more willing to call it like they see it when they're writing outside the U.S. The piece focuses on new signs of a looming recession in Europe. What's interesting is how the paper explains why the Eurozone economy is faltering...

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5. February 23, 2011 11:25 AM

   The History of Austerity

   It's grim—all the way back to Napoleon

   By Felix Salmon

   One of the best aspects of being a journalist is that you get to talk at length to the most knowledgeable and interesting experts on just about any subject you can think of. For me, yesterday was a prime case in point: a long and fascinating lunch with James Macdonald, the author of my favorite book on the history of...

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