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American Banker Shows DOJ Sat On a Bank-Kickback Scandal
HUD says big banks got $6 billion, but the attorney general does nothing
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2011 at 02:52 PM
American Banker has really been doing some superb stuff lately. Jeff Horwitz has a big scoop in today's paper, reporting... More
New York’s Obama WH Profile Juicy and Lite
Heilemann on the Obama redux
By Joel Meares Jan 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM
John Heilemann has the cover of New York this week—out today with a picture of the president on the front,... More
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle
A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown’s mag
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by... More
NYT Is Superb On General Electric’s Tax Avoidance
Plus, David Kocieniewski continues his Charlie Rangel exposés
By Ryan Chittum Mar 25, 2011 at 02:14 PM
(UPDATE: See my follow-up post on GE's poor PR response to the Times's story) The New York Times unloads a... More
The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED)
Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's hard to read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece on campaign fundraising without thinking about how embarrassing and corrupting it... More
A Note on the State of the Union
Let’s go beyond the theater
By Joel Meares Jan 25, 2011 at 06:22 PM
If you hadn’t already dismissed the State of the Union address as a kind of political Oscars—a room full of... More
Adrift in a sea of (no) coverage
For two years, little in the news about battle over National Ocean Policy
By Curtis Brainard Jun 15, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Last October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar called on the press to pay more attention to the Obama administration’s... More
Ask Obama This: What about housing?
What went wrong with the administration’s mortgage policies
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?
We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Audit Notes: Criminal Query, Ritholtz on McKinsey; Obama’s Jobs Panel
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2011 at 07:47 PM
— The Financial Times reports that the SEC is investigating whether Las Vegas Sands bribed foreign officials. The headline: Sands... More
Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM
Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More
Audit Notes: Hypocrisy on Warren, Just… Why?, Congress’ Net Worth Soars
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Former Timesman Peter S. Goodman is out of the gates fast over at The Huffington Post. He points out the... More
Audit Notes: ProPub vs. BofA, Wall Street in the White House, Short-Armed
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2010 at 08:02 PM
I love to see the press just flat-out say somebody's full of it. ProPublica's Karen Weise does that today, calling... More
Audit Notes: The 14th Century, Gilded China, The Second Stimulus
By Ryan Chittum Sep 9, 2011 at 08:45 PM
Treasury bonds yields hit another low today, dropping to 1.917 percent for ten-year bonds. You might even say markets are... More
Audit Notes: TP Bubble, No More “Fat Cats,” Big Long Now
By Ryan Chittum Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 AM
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at one growing American industry the Internet and the Chinese can't wipe out:... More
Carney’s conspiracy theory
White House Press Secretary sees GOP operatives in good journalism
By Curtis Brainard Dec 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney blamed GOP operatives for revealing that Susan Rice, President Obama’s presumed favorite... More
Climate roller coaster back on track
With Obama talking global warming, media see ups and downs
By Curtis Brainard Nov 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
At his first post-election press conference on Wednesday, President Obama talked about his current position on climate change in greater... More
Coming clean on food safety
The Obama administration’s lack of transparency makes a difficult beat that much harder
By Helena Bottemiller Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Editors’ Note: Bottemiller’s bio should have mentioned that her employer, Food Safety News, is published by the law firm Marler... More
Confused NYT Coverage of Obama Health Care Law’s Prospects
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2011 at 04:59 PM
The New York Times can't make up its mind on what a Supreme Court ruling against Obama health care plan's... More
Corporate Cousins
A walk down memory lane with the Murdoch media
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Daniel Gross brings up the fact that it's been two years since Michael Boskin's editorial in The Wall Street Journal... 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.
