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Manufacturing
WaPo Pulls Up Short On Trade and Tariffs
By Ryan Chittum May 24, 2011 at 02:12 PM
The Washington Post looks at what happens when the U.S. actually fights low-priced Chinese imports with tariffs: The factories move... More
WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More
CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either
A model story for the iffy skills-gap meme
By Ryan Chittum Aug 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Now it's CNNMoney's turn to spread the "can't find workers" meme. The headline reads "Northeast Indiana: Hundreds of factory jobs... More
Flack-Driven Local Coverage of a Factory Closure Fails
Fort Smith’s Southwest Times Record blows it on a huge loss to the community
By Ryan Chittum Oct 28, 2011 at 06:33 PM
Whirpool is laying off more than a thousand employees in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and shipping the work to Mexico and... More
The “Can’t Find Workers” Meme
The Post’s business-friendly frame
By Ryan Chittum Feb 21, 2012 at 07:59 PM
In a time when millions of American workers can't find work, it's only natural to be intrigued by counterintuitive stories... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
