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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
SI/CBS College Football Investigation Lacks Context
Their stats on player arrests aren’t so eye-opening after all
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2011 at 05:40 PM
Sports Illustrated and CBS News are out with a big investigation into crime in college football. They looked at the... More
The Seattle Times sinks a local polluter
Investigating the sketchy background of a capsized ship’s owner
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Most business investigations focus on corporations and investors. And for good reason: They're the ones with the money and the... More
A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post
An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 03:32 PM
The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing... More
Excellent Reuters Probe Uncovers a CEO’s Billion-Dollar Loans
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2012 at 07:51 PM
Reuters has a fantastic piece of enterprise reporting on natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, reporting on serious conflicts of interest... More
Golden Teeth Redux
A Dallas TV station investigates the state’s Medicaid shenanigans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Byron Harris, the dogged investigative reporter for Dallas, Texas television station WFAA, has come up with two more installments in... More
InsideClimate out front
Investigation of Kalamazoo oil spill calamity led the pack
By Curtis Brainard Jul 26, 2012 at 03:23 PM
In early July, the media covered a long awaited report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which blamed the... More
Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV
Sac Bee catches nursing home lies
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that health care institutions are not always safe places. Since the Institute of... More
The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Apr 23, 2012 at 06:38 PM
David Barstow's epic Wal-Mart investigation in the Sunday New York Times has already lopped $10 billion off the company's market... More
The WSJ Advances the Foreign-Exchange Gouging Story
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2011 at 02:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a good investigation that advances its series of stories looking at how banks, and particularly... More
What Do I Owe You?
Don’t ask Bank of America
By Ryan Chittum Apr 3, 2012 at 07:18 PM
When a bank sells bad debts to third-party collectors, the first order of business would seem to be to tell... More
When hospital profits clash with patient care: an investigation
The Times exposes questionable care at HCA hospitals
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM
This week The New York Times concluded a rare look at the inner workings of the country’s biggest for-profit hospital... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
