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FT Style Undermines A Good Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The Financial Times has a good investigation today into how hedge funds are stocking their boards with directors in the... More
Audit Notes: Journalists Subpoenaed, Private Pension Woes, Galleon
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2011 at 11:53 PM
Matthew Goldstein of Reuters reports that several business journalists are caught up in the crossfire between Fairfax Financial and hedge... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Board, Hedge Funds Selling
By Ryan Chittum Aug 9, 2011 at 07:35 PM
How awful is News Corporation's corporate governance (among other things)? Bloomberg News on Viet Dinh, the guy who wrote the... More
Audit Notes: William Cohan, Three Little Pigs, Recovery Spring
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2012 at 01:14 AM
In Bloomberg BusinessWeek, William D. Cohan writes about the spectacular downfall of hedge fund manager Dan Zwirn, whose $12 billion... More
Making Sense of Sino-Forest
Ponzi allegations call for an independent arbiter, but the press comes up short
By Felix Salmon Jun 6, 2011 at 02:27 PM
If you want to move a stock with a research report, you can hardly hope to do better than Muddy... More
The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors
By Ryan Chittum Dec 22, 2011 at 05:07 PM
The Wall Street Journal continues to investigate the fuzzy intersection between Congress and insider trading, with a good page-one story... More
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop
A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times posts a flacktacular Business Day piece on a new hedge fund named Falcon Edge. This new... 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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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.
