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“Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”
The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon
By Craig Silverman May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Of all the mistaken headlines, verbal gaffes, and erroneous tweets that resulted from the Sunday announcement that Osama Bin Laden... More
WSJ On MF Global and Window Dressing
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2011 at 05:25 PM
It looks like Jon Corzine's MF Global tried to hide how much risk it was taking on by temporarily lowering... More
A Little Healthy Outrage on Executive Pay
By Ryan Chittum Apr 6, 2011 at 02:16 PM
Roger Lowenstein had an excellent Bloomberg column a couple of weeks ago on outlandish executive compensation. Unfortunately, it got one... More
A Vulture Fund Sob Story
By Felix Salmon Apr 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Matt Wirz probably can’t be held responsible for the headline the WSJ put on his story today — “For Vultures,... More
Audit Notes: Debt Collector Scams, Occupy Oakland Coverage, Jest
By Ryan Chittum Oct 27, 2011 at 07:47 PM
The Washington Post reports on two FTC complaints against California debt collector companies, which "highlight an increase in complaints about... More
Audit Notes: Stocks Fed, Stadium Economics, Dumb-Question Headlines
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2011 at 06:07 PM
Gretchen Morgenson had an interesting quote in her column yesterday riffing off Bloomberg's investigation into $1.2 trillion of Fed bailouts:... More
Bloomberg News Oversells and Underperforms on Toyota’s Decline
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Bloomberg News has a good idea to do a step-back on Toyota and how it's faring a year after its... More
Confused NYT Coverage of Obama Health Care Law’s Prospects
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2011 at 04:59 PM
The New York Times can't make up its mind on what a Supreme Court ruling against Obama health care plan's... More
Duty Double
When nouns and verbs collide
By Merrill Perlman Jan 10, 2011 at 02:58 PM
Headlines are supposed to grab a reader’s attention and provide a fast synopsis of an article for a busy reader.... More
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission FAIL
Mostly lackluster coverage of a lackluster report
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2011 at 01:35 PM
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its report yesterday and the press play indicates that it's either an utter failure... More
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)
Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM
The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes... More
Overplaying the Two Old Guys’ Report
The Times busts out the war font for a deficit plan with dubious prospects
By Ryan Chittum Nov 11, 2010 at 02:00 PM
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times misplay the report out of the deficit commission panel today. The Journal... More
The Times’s Fluffy Coverage of the State of the Union
A poor show that amplifies Obama’s public-relations spiel
By Ryan Chittum Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Did The New York Times really need to lead its page one with a two-column, three-line headline about a pedestrian... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
