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Revolving Door
An FCC Commissioner’s Brazen Dash Through the Revolving Door
Buried by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 01:33 PM
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News show some terrible news judgment today, burying news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell... More
As the Revolving Door Turns
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2011 at 02:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the head of the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens, will become CEO... More
Audit Notes: Don’t Buy Our Bonds!, Rail FAIL, Orszag to Citigroup
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2010 at 08:19 PM
New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch went off the reservation in a speech today, Bloomberg reports. First, he criticizes state... More
Audit Notes: Fallows on Orszag, The Atlantic in the Black, Google
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Obama cabinet official Peter Orszag took a spin through the revolving door and ended up in a million-dollar sinecure at... More
Audit Notes: high-frequency trading, Ann Arbor news, SEC access
A whistleblower sparks a growing investigation, reports the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Sep 20, 2012 at 02:25 AM
The Wall Street Journal has a good page-one story and scoop on a high-frequency trader turned whistleblower whose complaint has... More
Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More
Audit Notes: Occupy Maybelline, Abramoff on the Revolving Door, News Corp. (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2011 at 07:56 PM
The Occupy Wall Street movement is already having its dissent commodified. As BagNews shows, this Maybelline commercial shows its models... More
Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM
Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More
Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS
The agency hamstrings a program designed to bring in tips on tax evasion
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is... More
Charlie Rose’s Weak Q&A With the SEC’s Khuzami
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2012 at 01:13 PM
Audit contributing editor Felix Salmon, writing this morning about Channel 4 reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy's tough questioning of Larry Summers, asked,... More
Excellent Reporting on the Revolving Door By American Banker
Paper’s FOIA request shows a former FHA commish palling around with his future employer
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 01:46 PM
American Banker has a terrific story on the revolving door, digging into the records of former Federal Housing Authority commissioner... More
The Crystal Ball For Chris Dodd Revisited
A trip through the revolving door, but not to Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2011 at 06:56 PM
Newly retired Democratic Senator Chris Dodd has now announced what he'll be doing for a post-Senate career: lobbying for Hollywood.... More
The Regulators on the Bus
A Times story shows the resources gap between regulators and Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM
We've wondered often just what it is that makes our financial regulators so toothless in the wake of the widespread... More
The SEC, Tangled Up in Madoff
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2011 at 02:01 PM
How about that Irving Picard? The lawyer trying to recover cash for Bernie Madoff's victims had the nerve to sue... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
