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A Super Journal Story on “Death-Debt” Collectors
Bank proxies harassing grieving family members to give money they don’t owe
By Ryan Chittum Dec 5, 2011 at 04:40 PM
The Wall Street Journal had an outstanding story this weekend on so called death-debt collectors—an industry that makes money by... More
HuffPost Finds the Pain in Goldman’s For-Profit Education Firm
By Ryan Chittum Oct 14, 2011 at 06:46 PM
It's not hard to imagine that letting boiler rooms push poor folks into taking out impossible-to-shed federal loans is a... More
The Ultimate Mortgage Fraud Anecdote
The Miami Herald finds a Miami woman defrauded at every turn
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2010 at 01:31 PM
The Miami Herald has found the perfect anecdote for the foreclosure scandal, the mortgage crisis, and how both are two... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
