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WSJ Slips Up on a Union Story
And its misses tilt toward the anti-labor side
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2011 at 09:45 PM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one story yesteday on the union battle in Wisconsin erred on a few points, all of... More
A Zombie Lie Is Born
CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Two days ago I fisked a false report from CNBC that said more than a third of all wages and... More
An Atlantic Ghost Story
Housing crash porn with no “there” there
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2011 at 03:05 PM
The Atlantic runs a slideshow post by 24/7 Wall St.'s Douglas A. McIntyre with the click-me headline "The New American... More
Audit Notes: blame the borrowers, Walmart cashiers, newspaper prices
The Democratic Party platform on mortgage issues
By Ryan Chittum Sep 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Henry Blodget somehow thinks that "everyone has spent the last five years trying to blame the housing crash on every... More
Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists
French publishing’s online revenues make the Americans look good
By Ryan Chittum Nov 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This New York Times story is nice on the coming attempt in Europe to get Google to pay content providers... More
CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance
Bad math overstates government payouts
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
(UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There... More
Journalists Need to Do the Math
Numbers still make many watchdogs whimper
By Justin D. Martin Dec 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM
CAIRO—I tell my students that in addition to English they should learn two more languages: an in-demand foreign tongue, and... More
Michael Kinsley Takes Issue with an Audit Criticism
By Ryan Chittum Dec 6, 2010 at 04:42 PM
Michael Kinsley writes to say I missed the point of his column asking "Are we poorer than we used to... More
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)
Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM
The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes... More
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation
When prices matter and when they don’t
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This SmartMoney post on "Why You're Not Getting a Raise" doesn't make sense. The lede: Didn’t get a raise this... More
The Worst Personal-Finance Video Ever
By Felix Salmon Mar 15, 2012 at 01:45 AM
Like many people, I’m fascinated by lottery tickets. In many ways they’re the purest speculative investment in the world: a... More
The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan
Bogus numbers and rewritten history
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial board's Joseph Rago makes a whopper of an error in a column Tuesday extolling Paul... More
U.S. Oil Is Limited and Fungible, the HuffPost Reports
By Ryan Chittum May 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM
The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff has a good piece of reporting on the potential impact of a bill the House... More
WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’
A mess of a story on Facebook
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a "give-it-away-free approach" that has hurt share... More
What are the odds?
Dealing with percentages
By Merrill Perlman Nov 5, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Take this quiz: If one candidate has 46 percent of the likely voters, and the other has 48 percent, what’s... 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.
