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Squawk on the Street’s Haines Dies at 65
By Joel Meares May 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM
CNBC’s Mark Haines died unexpectedly Tuesday night at age 65. Haines was the founding anchor of the network’s popular... More
A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC
The network’s tweet creates a misleading media narrative on the veep debate
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2012 at 03:57 AM
Whoever was running the CNBC Twitter feed last night didn't know the difference between a scientific poll and a Web... More
A Zombie Lie Is Born
CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Two days ago I fisked a false report from CNBC that said more than a third of all wages and... More
Adventures With CNBC Anchors’ Statistics
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2011 at 04:21 PM
CNBC’s Joe Kernen reports the news in the morning in a fast-paced environment where it’s difficult to be 100% accurate.... More
Audit Notes: Bill Black on CNBC, LAT eyes Ryan’s budget, robosigning
The ex-regulator might as well have been beamed in by the Curiosity rover
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 02:44 AM
Bill Black goes on CNBC and shreds Maria Bartiromo and Bethany McLean on whether Goldman Sachs (and others) could and... More
Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits
The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday.... More
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace
Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM
CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More
Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked
A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More
Audit Notes: NYT yacht coverage, Diluted tech stocks, CNBC
How stock options obscure what companies like Facebook are really worth
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times takes a tough look at a pressing issue in our struggling economy: "How to Keep Yachting... More
Audit Notes: Reuters on Chesapeake, Krugman on CNBC, Waldman on banks
The wire uncovers more emails showing potential collusion between competitors
By Ryan Chittum Jul 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues its tremendous investigation into natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon. Brian Grow and Joshua... More
Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith
An excellent personal-finance story from the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
What would Social Security coverage look like if the press covered it more like personal finance reporters cover IRAs and... More
Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus
JPMorgan CEO takes to CNBC for consolation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly... More
Audit Notes: Whither The Guardian, Blodget breathes fire, CNBC flop
The New Statesman profiles editor Alan Rusbridger
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 01:52 AM
This long New Statesman profile of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, which also delves into the financial woes of his paper,... More
Becky Quick Thinks the Fed Is Too Focused on Jobs
That makes no sense historically or in the current context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM
CNBC's Becky Quick uses her Fortune column to argue that the Federal Reserve should break the law. The law says... More
Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 30, 2011 at 01:36 AM
Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a... More
Best of 2012: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his favorite posts of the year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 28, 2012 at 05:33 PM
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course — Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry. CNBC:... More
Bloomberg Gives Newt Another Frannie Headache
Executives contradict Gingrich’s account of his advice
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2011 at 03:57 PM
Newt Gingrich has a Frannie problem. The former Speaker of the House used to work for Freddie Mac but is... More
CNBC graphic of the day, Greek bond yield edition
Martin Wolf, the anti-CNBC, makes an appearance
By Felix Salmon Jun 11, 2012 at 02:20 PM
Martin Wolf appeared on CNBC today, which is never a good idea. Between all the swishing noises and flashing... More
CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance
Bad math overstates government payouts
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
(UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There... More
CNBC Pushes the Financial-Terrorism Nonsense
“Really good information” on why “outside forces may have” caused the 2008 Crash
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2011 at 01:02 PM
I took the hammer to The Washington Times the other day for a dumb story on a report that says... 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?
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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.
