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The Journal Hypes the Downgrade
A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2011 at 02:44 PM
That Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. from AAA to AA+ is a big story no doubt. But The Wall... More
Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance
GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Ezra Klein, anticipating a lot of Republicans disingenuously blaming Obama for the national debt, points to a Center on Budget... More
Austerity and Objectivity
Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?
By Ryan Chittum Oct 25, 2011 at 02:31 PM
The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are... More
Bernanke goes mostly unheard on spending (UPDATED)
The press continues its spotty coverage of Fed’s fiscal views
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I should say. Bernanke has talked... More
Blaming the Audience: Almost Always a Bad Idea
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 01:57 PM
Marketplace's Heidi N. Moore lays into a listener for getting upset about Wall Street wanting to cut her entitlements. In... More
Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy
Corporate America’s house organ starts an anti-political political campaign
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2012 at 02:57 PM
Any time you see Wall Street CEOs and CNBC campaigning for what they call the common good, it's worth raising... More
The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman
CNBC’s Becky Quick thinks, wrongly, the economist is alone in debunking “fiscal crisis”
By Ryan Chittum Oct 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This summer, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went on CNBC to talk about his book and ended up getting... 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)
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.
