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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Felix Salmon

1. May 31, 2011 03:38 PM

   Apology Due

   Audit Arbiter says Felix Salmon was off-base and needlessly mean in a 2007 post on a columnist

   By Martha M. Hamilton

   Felix Salmon, an Audit contributor, asked for an arbiter to look into the complaints of a writer named Sean Olender. Olender had e-mailed Salmon in May about a Market Mover blog Salmon wrote in 2007, attacking an opinion piece by Olender in the San Francisco Chronicle a few days before. "I was certainly too bullish on lots of things...

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2. February 6, 2012 11:28 AM

   Elizabeth Spiers and the Reinvented New York Observer

   By Felix Salmon

   There are three main reasons that I like entering into bets with people. The first is, simply, that it’s fun. The second is that I love to win bets. And the third is that I love to lose them. I don’t ever trade the markets: all of my investments are strictly buy-and-hold, with a time horizon measured in decades. That...

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3. November 2, 2010 12:54 PM

   Felix Salmon is the Columbia Journalism Review’s New Peterson Fellow

   Will blog about media coverage of fiscal and economic policy

   By Dean Starkman

   Felix Salmon, the finance blogger for Reuters and a leading voice on financial and economic issues, has been appointed the Columbia Journalism Review’s next Peterson Fellow, writing on the media’s coverage of fiscal and economic matters. Funded by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Peterson Fellowship was created to encourage the business and political media to take the long view....

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4. January 23, 2012 01:45 PM

   How Sharing Disrupts Media

   By Felix Salmon

   I’m at DLD in Munich, where David Karp of Tumblr and Samir Arora of Glam Media helped me understand the way that media and publishing are evolving these days, and the way in which creating, editing, and publishing are increasingly separate things which interact with each other in fertile and unpredictable ways. There are lots of ways of publishing content...

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5. October 19, 2012 05:41 PM

   Pass the #popcorn

   ICYMI: Matt Sullivan's announcement pits Felix Salmon against Foster Kamer

   By Sara Morrison

   According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to see a study confirming this, but I’m pretty sure most of that 8 percent are journalists. Journalists love Twitter, whether using it for writing, conversation, or fighting. And I love to watch—and judge—the sparring. If you see a #JournoTweetFight that...

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6. January 27, 2012 10:49 AM

   Summers: “Inside Job had essentially all its facts wrong”

   By Felix Salmon

   In mid-2009, I went on a search for apologies, from the people who laid the intellectual and regulatory foundations for the financial crisis. I wondered whether and when Larry Summers, in particular, would apologize for what he did at Treasury, and I was heartened when Bill Clinton came out and said that, with hindsight, he was wrong about derivatives...

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7. November 18, 2010 11:36 AM

   The Felix Thing

   Concerns from a friend about our new blogger

   By Dean Starkman

   We’ve gotten a couple of private notes expressing concern about our naming Felix Salmon as our new Peterson Fellow to blog about economics coverage, including one from a longtime friend who warns: This is a mistake. You are undermining your credibility. The issue is that Felix works for Reuters. I believe organizations whose main purpose (is) critiquing others need to...

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8. May 17, 2011 04:08 PM

   Two Tone Deaf Defenses of Strauss-Kahn

   By Joel Meares

   There has, admittedly, been a sort of assumption of guilt from the media in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair—the brutal tabloid headlines, the half-hearted insertions of “allegedly” and “innocent until proven guilty” into otherwise damning copy, the listings of his past indiscretions and womanizing ways. And there is a serious discussion to be had about the way the media reports...

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9. January 18, 2012 02:37 PM

   Will Fact-Checking Go the Way of Blogs?

   By Felix Salmon

   Lucas Graves has by far the best and most sophisticated response to NYT ombudsman Arthur Brisbane’s silly question about “truth vigilantes”. Graves makes the important point that Brisbane’s “objective and fair” formulation is itself problematic: as one of Brisbane’s commenters wrote, if a certain politician is objectively less truthful, less forthcoming, and less believable than others, then objectivity demands that...

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