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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged David Carr

1. April 16, 2012 07:49 PM

   Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail

   By Ryan Chittum

   David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department of Justice's antitrust suit "the modern equivalent of taking on Standard Oil but breaking up Ed’s Gas ’N’ Groceries on Route 19 instead": But pull back a few thousand feet and take a broader look at the interests of consumers....

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2. March 16, 2012 08:35 PM

   Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr

   By Ryan Chittum

   Quote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman saying this about Greg Smith's famous Goldman Sachs kissoff in The New York Times: Morgan Stanley’s Gorman said he told staff not to circulate the op-ed. “I was surprised that anyone would run an op-ed piece based...

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3. June 22, 2011 08:30 PM

   Audit Notes: Wall Street’s Trib Bust, Pro-Union U.S., Authoritarian Wal-Mart

   By Ryan Chittum

   David Carr looks at James O'Shea's new book on Sam Zell's Tribune Company fiasco and zooms in on O'Shea's reporting on how Wall Street helped create it: What Mr. O’Shea focused on was how the bankers — who he said should have known the deal would render the company insolvent — seemed to be too busy counting their fees to...

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4. October 24, 2011 04:32 PM

   Newspaper Companies As Emblems of the 1 Percent

   David Carr rips Gannett's $37 million golden parachute

   By Ryan Chittum

   "Gannett paper" has long been a pejorative in journalism circles. So how about "Gannett executive"? The nation's biggest newspaper chain has run its papers with threadbare newsrooms to keep profit margins extra-high for shareholders. When the newspaper industry hit the wall a few years ago, Gannett "strip-mined its newspapers in search of earnings, leaving many communities with far less original,...

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5. April 18, 2011 04:24 PM

   Newspaper Turnaround Stories

   Give credit to the creditors and the courts before the CEOs

   By Ryan Chittum

   David Carr takes a look today at the fortunes of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which have stopped plummeting at least temporarily. It's nice to read some good news for a change about newspapers, especially ones that have bumped circulation, returned to profitability, and even sent profit-sharing checks to the newsroom. But I'm skeptical that much has changed and especially doubt...

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6. June 27, 2012 05:22 PM

   The two David Carrs

   A Times columnist rises to fame

   By Michael Massing

   Since joining The New York Times in 2002, David Carr has become America’s most visible and influential writer on the media. His weekly “Media Equation” column is closely followed by people in the industry. Last year, he was featured in Interview magazine (interviewed by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, no less), and he was the star of the 2011 documentary Page One:...

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7. March 5, 2012 02:32 PM

   What’s In David Carr’s Backpack?

   The New York Times media columnist shows his stuff

   By The Editors

   David Carr, veteran newspaperman and indie-film star (Page One), can’t quite remember the year he started his career at The Twin Cities Reader in Minneapolis (it was 1982), but he can say with confidence: “This backpack contains more firepower than the entire newsroom that I walked into” back then. To prove it, he unpacked. (For more on Carr's backpack, click...

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