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NYT Reports Bear Stearns Wasn’t Alone on Putbacks
Plus, Wall Street saw fraud signs, demanded money back, then kept buying loans
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 02:50 PM
The New York Times has a very good look today at what the Ambac lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase could mean... More
Audit Notes: Lobbying Both Ways, SEC Scrutiny, Steve Jobs,
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM
The banks have been carping about the complexity of the Volcker Rule, which aims to prevent them from making risky... More
Audit Notes: Toxic Assets, Foreclosure Mills, SEC (Finally) Looking at CDOs
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 12:20 AM
What ever happened to that pile of toxic assets that the banks were sitting on? Wall Street Journal reporter Michael... More
Charlie Rose’s Weak Q&A With the SEC’s Khuzami
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2012 at 01:13 PM
Audit contributing editor Felix Salmon, writing this morning about Channel 4 reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy's tough questioning of Larry Summers, asked,... More
Goldman Exec’s “Rough Language” on Manipulating the Market
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Senator Carl Levin released emails yesterday showing a Goldman Sachs executive exhorting his traders to engineer a short-squeeze The Wall... More
HuffPost: An SEC Wrist Slap for Fleecing an Indian Tribe (UPDATED)
Wachovia dinged with a small settlement, and no individuals are charged
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2011 at 05:15 PM
Good for The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour for giving us a closer look at Wachovia's settlement for defrauding an Indian... More
ProPublica Shows Merrill Paid Traders to Take Its CDOs
An important story on how Wall Street kept the bubble going
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2011 at 08:25 PM
I really hate when news organizations drop big stories over the holidays. For one, they have far less chance of... More
The Times gives the SEC’s Khuzami a parting kiss
The enforcement chief still gets the “new sheriff in town” treatment
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's at least easy to understand the logic, however icky, of the beat sweetener, that staple of news coverage that... More
Wall Street Running Out the Clock on Crash Charges (UPDATED)
Prosecutors finally focus on CDOs as the statute of limitations is running out
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2011 at 06:17 PM
The housing bubble popped five years ago. The securitization market went haywire four years ago, shortly after the derivatives market... More
Wall Street’s Toxic Touch
By Ryan Chittum Jan 10, 2012 at 03:22 PM
Bloomberg View's Mark Whitehouse points to a fascinating report on new evidence showing how badly Wall Street screwed investors in... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
