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Audit Notes: Amazon turns on the A/C, Fairfax’s taxes, Ponzify
By Ryan Chittum Jun 6, 2012 at 11:53 PM
The Morning Call's Spencer Soper follows up on his Amazon sweatshop investigation, and reports that the company has since spent... More
Audit notes: Facebook disclosure, Facebook value, soft corruption
By Ryan Chittum May 22, 2012 at 05:58 PM
Business Insider's Henry Blodget, who knows a thing or two about analyst/IPO scandals, writes that Facebook and/or its bankers could... More
Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 05:03 PM
I'm happy to say I was wrong (and Felix was right) in guessing that retail investors would jump into Facebook... More
Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
Why the flop matters
By Ryan Chittum May 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Joe Nocera glosses over the problem with Facebook's IPO in arguing that we shouldn't care whether its shares plunged after... More
Facebook fiasco
The well connected made out while retail investors got hosed
By Ryan Chittum May 23, 2012 at 01:04 PM
We're starting to get a better picture of what happened with Facebook on Friday and in the run-up to its... More
Facebook’s low, low ad rates
The Journal reports on the site’s problems with advertisers
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 04:00 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece on advertisers' doubts about Facebook. As I noted a few months ago,... More
Skeptical and Not-So-Skeptical Coverage of Angie’s List
A hot IPO for a dot.com that loses tons of money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2011 at 03:10 PM
Social media site Angie's List IPO'd yesterday, and the market now values it at nearly $900 million. While those are... More
The Facebook blame game
The NYT’s Sorkin shifts focus from the bankers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2012 at 02:38 AM
Like Jon Weil, I've got little sympathy for the folks who speculated on Facebook at $38, thinking it would double... More
The Facebook frenzy
Retail investors prepare to jump on a richly valued IPO
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one Facebook IPO story does a good job of capturing some uncomfortable parallels to the dot.com... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
