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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Objectivity

1. November 17, 2010 06:21 PM

   Audit Notes: Catching Up With Wall Street, Princess Dresses, Olbermann and Objectivity

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Observer's Max Abelson takes a look at the Wall Street people who nearly crashed the world. Where are they now? Mostly still on Wall Street; many in the same jobs. Howzat? Abelson ledes with this eye-raising quote from Dick Parsons of Citigroup: "Have you ever noticed," the chairman of Citigroup, Richard D. Parsons, asked The Observer this...

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2. May 20, 2011 08:06 PM

   Audit Notes: The Massey Report, Objectivity Comics, The Ultrawealthy

   By Ryan Chittum

   Here are the ledes from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times stories this morning on the Massey Energy coal disaster report out of West Virginia. The Journal: A 13-month independent investigation into the coal-mine explosion that killed 29 Massey Energy Co. workers last year concluded the accident could have been prevented and was primarily the result of...

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3. October 25, 2011 02:31 PM

   Austerity and Objectivity

   Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?

   By Ryan Chittum

   The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are more willing to call it like they see it when they're writing outside the U.S. The piece focuses on new signs of a looming recession in Europe. What's interesting is how the paper explains why the Eurozone economy is faltering...

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4. August 27, 2012 10:52 AM

   Rethinking objectivity: a recall case

   An intern gets canned in Wisconsin because she signed a petition. Why?

   By Kathleen Bartzen Culver

   As partisan activity and open hostility climbed toward their peak in Wisconsin’s recent recall election, one of my students lost her job days before she was set to begin it. She hadn’t conducted a single interview or written even one lead. Yet she was declared guilty of an insurmountable conflict of interest for signing a political petition. I’m not using...

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