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BW Oversells Its Story on Americans and Dirty Jobs
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2011 at 08:20 PM
This Bloomberg BusinessWork cover story from last week on "Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs" takes an uneven look at... More
WSJ Goes Page One With Another Gold “Record”
But in real terms the price is more than a third below its peak three decades ago
By Ryan Chittum Apr 22, 2011 at 03:09 AM
It's time for another round of hyped and misleading "gold hits a record" stories. Gold closed at $1,500 for the... More
Audit Notes: Mortgage Bonds, Junkets, Digital Hype
By Ryan Chittum Jan 26, 2012 at 08:54 PM
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism flags what she calls a "bombshell" analyst report on the mortgage-backed securities market. The report... More
Media Hurricane Hype?
Irene spurs debate about the quality of news coverage
By Curtis Brainard Aug 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Anderson Cooper and a CNN crew covering Irene on Sunday, August 28. Photo by Sean Hemmerle. “An Epic Deluge,” read... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
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.
