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200 Years of Citi
An alternate history
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More
Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index
By Ryan Chittum Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM
Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More
Audit Notes: Don’t Buy Our Bonds!, Rail FAIL, Orszag to Citigroup
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2010 at 08:19 PM
New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch went off the reservation in a speech today, Bloomberg reports. First, he criticizes state... More
Audit Notes: seaside villas, paywall past, Citi fraud
By Ryan Chittum Jun 5, 2012 at 12:30 AM
Line of the day goes to Bloomberg News for this gem from Robert Benmosche, CEO of government-owned AIG (emphasis mine):... More
Audit Notes: Twitter’s censors, NYT apology, Craigslist’s aggregators
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Twitter gave itself a serious black eye today, censoring a journalist for reporting the easy-to-figure-out corporate email address of NBC... 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 Reveals Citi’s Deceptive Reporting
By Felix Salmon Feb 24, 2011 at 05:00 PM
On February 14, 2008, John Lyons, the examiner in charge of large bank supervision at the OCC, sent Citigroup and... More
Market Mess
Troubles pile up for the financial system and the economy
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 08:18 PM
What happened in the markets today? Good luck figuring that out (you can't, really). Let's just say it's some combination... More
ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM
I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... More
Ron Suskind on Obama’s Weakness
A new book reports Geithner ignored the president on overhauling Citigroup
By Ryan Chittum Sep 16, 2011 at 12:53 AM
It's been apparent for a good while that Obama is a weak president. But so weak that his own people... More
Securities Star Chambers
By Dean Starkman Apr 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Gretchen Morgenson sees hope in a recent arbitration case that, incredibly, found in favor of actual human beings against... More
The WSJ Eyes Analyst-Shopping
By Ryan Chittum Jan 5, 2012 at 03:17 PM
Call me naive, but I didn't know that companies launching IPOs were still overtly shopping around for banks with favorable... More
The SEC’s Khuzami and That Citigroup Settlement
An anonymous letter adds to questions about a wrist slap
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19 PM
Bloomberg News reported on Monday that the SEC's inspector general is investigating Robert Khuzami, its chief enforcement official, after getting... More
The SEC’s Soft Touch For Repeat Offenders
NYT and Bloomberg show how often banks violate promises not to re-commit fraud
By Ryan Chittum Nov 8, 2011 at 03:14 PM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil wrote a swell column last week on the SEC's latest Citigroup wrist-slap. Weil noted that one of... 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 (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
