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An FCC Commissioner’s Brazen Dash Through the Revolving Door
Buried by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 01:33 PM
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News show some terrible news judgment today, burying news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell... More
AT&T’s Cellphone Industry Rollup Gets Second-Day Scrutiny
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2011 at 01:28 PM
The business press continues to be skeptical in its second-day coverage of AT&T's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile. That's a... More
AT&T’s Hubris
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2011 at 02:48 PM
The Justice Department is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, which would have consolidated three-quarters of cellphone-plan market... More
Audit Notes: Deal Scoops; Gasparino on the Economy, Bloomberg Editorials
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2010 at 08:10 PM
Deal journalism isn't our bag here, but this New York Observer story is worth noting all the same. It's interesting... More
Capital One Tries to Buy Too Big to Fail Status
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2011 at 03:29 PM
Capital One is the thirteenth biggest bank in the country, with $200 billion in assets. It's on a buying spree... More
Microsoft-Skype Gets Bubble-Era Hype from the Times (UPDATED)
The Journal and FT bring much-needed skepticism about the deal
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2011 at 08:22 PM
The New York Times goes A1 with a breathless second-day story that shows some of the perils of deal reporting.... 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.
