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WSJ Fronts Amazon’s Tax Avoidance Strategy
Color-coded maps tell employees which states are safe, bad, and neutral
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2011 at 06:38 PM
It's nice to see The Wall Street Journal take a page-one look at Amazon's aggressive tax avoidance, something I've written... More
A picture is worth a thousand memes
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker responds to Farhad Manjoo
By Matt Wuerker Apr 23, 2012 at 03:17 PM
Farhad Manjoo thinks political cartoons are stale, stupid, and unfunny—or so he argued in Slate last week, saying that, instead... More
Apples and oranges on Google and publishers
Print performance is bad enough without putting a thumb on the scale
By Ryan Chittum Nov 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Slate tells us that "Google ad revenue tops entire US print media industry" in the first six months of the... More
Audit Notes: “People Love It,” The New Nocera, NYT Parody Flop
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2011 at 09:05 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column on a panel of top financiers discussing financial reform and too big to... More
Audit Notes: CEO Porn; Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan; Sbarro, Cooked
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2011 at 09:08 PM
Gary Weiss says the tarnishing of Warren Buffett is a useful moment for the press to stand back and quit... More
Audit Notes: Google v. Groupon, BofA Deal, The 99ers
By Ryan Chittum Jan 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Shira Ovide writes that Google, spurned by Groupon despite its stunning $6 billion offer for the... More
Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value
The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death and... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal, Chipotle Not Apple
By Ryan Chittum Feb 13, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Murdoch's hacking scandal deepened this weekend with the arrests of several senior journalists at another News Corporation paper—The Sun— in... More
Audit Notes: Skynet News, Gawker’s High-Low Strategy, Oil Speculators
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2012 at 03:13 AM
Evgeny Morozov has a must-read piece at Slate on the rise of journalism bots, which Forbes now employs to write... More
Covering the Republicans’ Crisis Commission Document
Bethany McLean shows why he said-she said reporting doesn’t cut it
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2010 at 03:14 PM
The four Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released their own report Wednesday on the causes of the financial... More
Insider Trading in Congress
A new book puts faces on data suggesting members enrich themselves with nonpublic information
By Ryan Chittum Nov 14, 2011 at 07:35 PM
If I could short Congress, I would right now. Last night's 60 Minutes report, based on the work of conservative... More
Jim Romenesko Leaves Poynter
And the blogosphere cries foul
By Justin Peters Nov 11, 2011 at 02:11 AM
The most frustrating thing about the Jim Romenesko affair is the way that so many people who should know better... More
Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine
What The Daily can learn from an earlier “digital renaissance”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 4, 2011 at 02:20 PM
CJR has been accused of crankiness for our early critique of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, The Daily. The Poynter... More
Slate Takes on Amazon’s Unfair Advantage
The retailer manipulates nexus law to give customers tax breaks competitors can’t offer
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2010 at 02:01 AM
Slate's Farhad Manjoo wrote last month about how online retailers like Amazon get a huge unfair advantage over their bricks... More
The latest on Slatest
Slate’s news aggregation blog’s revamp goes for quality over quantity
By Sara Morrison Aug 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
There’s a new Slatest in town: the third version of Slatest, Slate's aggregated news blog, launched Monday. Though some Slatest... More
The Power of the Drones
Inside Slate’s efforts to crowdsource good ideas
By Daniel Luzer Nov 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM
People have to be damn committed to an idea to attend an event about it on a Monday night, even... More
Two Non-Plans for the Deficit
Slate and Times op-eds suggest Obama slack off
By Joel Meares Apr 13, 2011 at 01:13 PM
Relatively vague previews of the president’s big deficit speech today suggest he will tout cuts to Medicare, limits on... More
What’s Slate been up to?
CJR checks in with the Web news stalwart
By Michael Meyer May 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM
It's been more than a year since we profiled Slate for CJR's Guide to Online News Startups (then the News... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
