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As the Revolving Door Turns
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2011 at 02:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the head of the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens, will become CEO... More
Audit Notes: Lobbying Both Ways, SEC Scrutiny, Steve Jobs,
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM
The banks have been carping about the complexity of the Volcker Rule, which aims to prevent them from making risky... More
Breakingviews Misses on the Fed’s Debit Card Rules
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2011 at 07:20 PM
The banking lobby is pushing back bigtime against the Federal Reserve rules that would force it to stop gouging consumers... More
Homeless Shelters 4 AT&T-Verizon Duopoly
By Ryan Chittum Oct 17, 2011 at 03:17 PM
In June, Politico and the Washington Post ran stories showing how, in exchange for Ma Bell's cash, nonprofits like NAACP... More
How a Defense Contract Is Won
NYT’s Boeing report left out the lobbying
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM
You're a giant aerospace company pursuing a defense contract potentially worth $100 billion: so, what's your lobbying budget for that?... More
HuffPo’s Missing Gephardt Disclosure
By Joel Meares Jun 24, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Sebastian Jones, an editor at the liberal Washington Monthly, has shot a sharp dart at The Huffington Post for publishing... More
The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry
An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM
A tremendous Chicago Tribune investigation into flame-retardant chemical manufacturers shows how they push their poisons on an unsuspecting public despite... More
The Crystal Ball For Chris Dodd Revisited
A trip through the revolving door, but not to Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2011 at 06:56 PM
Newly retired Democratic Senator Chris Dodd has now announced what he'll be doing for a post-Senate career: lobbying for Hollywood.... More
The Unimportance Lobby (UPDATED)
The NYT shows Big Finance pushing to avoid a “systematically important” designation
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2011 at 03:31 PM
The New York Times had a good look yesterday at how big financial companies are lobbying Washington to not be... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
