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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Occupy Wall Street

1. November 9, 2011 01:41 PM

   NYT on How Unions Are Learning From Occupy Wall Street

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times reports on how the American labor movement, whose membership and power have crumbled over the last few decades, is getting something of a second wind from the Occupy Wall Street protests. The picture I get from this report by Steven Greenhouse, one of the few labor beat reporters left in the mainstream press (props, NYT), is...

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2. November 4, 2011 07:22 PM

   The Wall Street Journal Pooh-Poohs Bank Transfer Day

   By Ryan Chittum

   This Wall Street Journal story on Bank Transfer Day, the push to get people to move their money out of fee-gouging, too-big-to-fail banks and into credit unions and small local banks, is an exercise in point-missing. It says that it's not so easy to move your money to a credit union, and you can't really do it in one day,...

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3. September 18, 2012 12:24 PM

   Andrew Ross Sorkin mixes a message

   One anti-Semitic protestor means what, exactly?

   By Todd Gitlin

   Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks Occupy Wall Street fizzled. Fair enough—he writes opinions, and in this one he has a lot of company. But he’s cherry-picked his evidence and one particular piece of it is rotten. It’s here: Given the way the organization — if it can be called that — was purposely open to taking all comers, the assembly lost...

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4. September 18, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: News of the World’s thugs, Occupy impact, nonprofit news

   Allegations that the paper's gumshoes broke into houses looking for dirt

   By Ryan Chittum

   What could go wrong when a Murdoch newspaper employs axe-murder suspects? A lot, as we've already seen, and it may have been worse than we've yet known. The London Evening Standard reports that an ex-cop sent undercover to probe News of the World's private investigators says they burglarized the house of "a newsworthy individual" to try to dig up dirt...

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5. October 27, 2011 07:47 PM

   Audit Notes: Debt Collector Scams, Occupy Oakland Coverage, Jest

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Washington Post reports on two FTC complaints against California debt collector companies, which "highlight an increase in complaints about the debt-collection industry as the economy has soured. Consumers lodged about 140,000 complaints with the FTC about debt collectors last year, more than any other industry, according to federal data." A few weeks ago, the FTC alleged that Rumson, Bolling...

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6. November 18, 2011 07:56 PM

   Audit Notes: Occupy Maybelline, Abramoff on the Revolving Door, News Corp. (UPDATED)

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Occupy Wall Street movement is already having its dissent commodified. As BagNews shows, this Maybelline commercial shows its models prancing around in co-opted Occupy imagery (UPDATE: Or not. BagNews updates its post to note that the Maybelline commercial predates Occupy by a year, though it asks whether it's been rolled out again for the events): This ad is offensive...

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7. October 28, 2011 07:39 PM

   Audit Notes: The Occupy-Rwanda Connection, Reckless Blame, Jarvis For Dummies

   By Ryan Chittum

   Speaking of Fort Smith's City Wire, the website reports on a talk by former Alltel CEO Scott Ford to the local Chamber of Commerce. Ford formed a coffee company that does business in Rwanda. That might at least begin to attempt to explain why he compares the Occupy movement to the genocidaires in Rwanda: Ford compared the “We are the...

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8. November 8, 2011 08:01 PM

   Audit Notes: What Would Hammurabi Do?, WSJ + OWS, Fisking Davidson

   By Ryan Chittum

   Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn't pussyfoot around in his New York Times op-ed arguing that we should "End Bonuses for Bankers": Instead, it’s time for a fundamental reform: Any person who works for a company that, regardless of its current financial health, would require a taxpayer-financed bailout if it failed should not get a bonus, ever. In fact, all pay at...

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9. December 5, 2011 03:38 PM

   CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska

   Voices of the occupiers on Centennial Mall

   By Trudy Lieberman

   George Packer’s superb New Yorker article about the Wall Street Occupiers is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why Occupy Wall Street camps sprang up across the country. As a reader, I found the journey of main character Ray Kachel—from Seattle to Zuccotti Park to homeless man in New York City—a reflection of the loss of hope and...

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10. May 2, 2012 03:18 PM

    Fewer journo arrests at latest OWS push

    But some reporters at the nationwide May 1 Occupy protests were targeted by protestors

    By Jared Malsin

    Journalists covering the May 1 Occupy demonstrations across the country encountered some police obstruction, including a few arrests, and an uptick in cases of demonstrators confronting journalists. According to Josh Stearns, of the advocacy organization Free Press, who has been intensively tracking arrests and harassment of journalists covering demonstrations nationwide, May Day marked a slight improvement in police treatment of...

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11. February 28, 2012 12:25 PM

    How to Chill the Independent Journalist

    Facing arrest without institutional backup

    By Carla Murphy

    After her arrest last November, Alisen Redmond quit covering Occupy Atlanta. She felt that she had to. At the time, Redmond was the news editor of Kennesaw State University’s Sentinel, which had been covering the makeshift Occupy encampment in Woodruff Park, in downtown Atlanta, before it caught the attention of mainstream media. On the night of November 5th, Redmond was...

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12. November 1, 2011 05:24 PM

    Oakland Local Covers Occupy Oakland

    Covering the national story in their backyard

    By Alysia Santo

    When Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was critically injured last week at Occupy Oakland, the eyes of the news media turned from Wall Street’s encampment to Oakland’s. A projectile used by police had fractured his skull, and accusations of police brutality quickly became the lead story in the coverage of the worldwide Wall Street protests. Video of police actions went...

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13. November 15, 2011 11:23 AM

    Occupy Protests Present a New Terrain of Risk for Reporters

    Journalists physically removed from Occupy Wall Street raid

    By Natasha Lennard

    On the night of November 14, when the NYPD sprung a surprise raid to evict Occupy Wall Street’s foundational Zuccotti Park encampment, credentialed press were pushed back by police into a pen, unable to watch the eviction at close hand. Mother Jones magazine’s Josh Harkinson live-tweeted how he was physically dragged along the ground and removed from the park by...

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14. October 7, 2011 11:57 AM

    Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team

    A day in the life

    By Alysia Santo

    Wednesday, October 5th Among the tarps, pizza boxes, and people tightly squeezed into Zuccotti Park, there are subtly segmented sections. There’s the art area, towards the back of the park, overflowing with posters. A buffet style food assortment resides near the center, kitty-corner to the sleeping area, where mattresses and sleeping bags lie, some vacant, some not. Behind the...

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15. October 20, 2011 12:28 AM

    Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance

    By Ryan Chittum

    This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a recent email urging supporters to sign a petition backing the wave of Occupy Wall Street protests, phones at the party committee started ringing. Banking executives personally called the offices of DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and...

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16. December 20, 2011 04:29 PM

    On the Record From Inside a Gilded Bubble

    Bloomberg News profiles the beleaguered ultrarich

    By Ryan Chittum

    Bloomberg's Max Abelson has quite an eye for the ridiculous. He's dug up an AIG executive's blame-shifting for the financial crisis, called out Meredith Whitney's gibberish on muni bonds, and got a senior Wall Street exec to sputter with rage over that time Obama called them fat cats. Today, Abelson has one of his best yet, reporting on how some...

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17. November 14, 2011 05:22 PM

    Public Radio and the Freelance Journalist

    Should the same code of ethics apply?

    By Alysia Santo

    Caitlin Curran was a freelance web producer for WNYC/PRI’s radio show, The Takeaway, which has been covering the Occupy Wall Street protests. After a picture of Curran holding a sign at a recent OWS protest went viral, Curran was dismissed from her position with WNYC. She wrote a post about the firing for Gawker, and inspired conversation around yet another...

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18. November 7, 2011 05:11 PM

    Safety Tips for Covering Occupy Wall Street

    And civil disorder in general

    By Judith Matloff

    At least half a dozen journalists have been injured or detained while covering the growing unrest in the United States. Here are safety tips that reporters can use to prepare for potentially unruly protests: Before you head out • Make sure your accreditation is in order and easily accessible. • Alert authorities that your news organization plans to cover the...

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19. November 3, 2011 03:10 PM

    The Journal Fizzles on Occupy Oakland Protest

    By Ryan Chittum

    Several thousand Occupy movement protestors shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, a week after Oakland police attacked the protest with tear gas and, allegedly, flashbang grenades and rubber bullets. Big news story. On the Twitter, CUNY's C.W. Anderson marvels at how The Wall Street Journal frames it: Wow. This #WSJ article on #occupyoakland really is the tops. If you...

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20. November 7, 2011 05:03 PM

    Veteran Blogs Cover Occupy Wall Street

    The military community takes sides

    By Alysia Santo

    Veterans Today, an online-only publication, features writing by veterans, for veterans. The site focuses on a whole range of topics, from disability benefits to veteran suicide rates, but lately the editors at Veterans Today have been posting frequently in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Jim W. Dean, one of the managing editors at Veterans Today, says the economic...

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