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“Uncertainty” Trotted Out in the Journal
Business code for “we may not get our way”
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2010 at 11:12 AM
If there's one thing our titans of industry can't stand, it's uncertainty. We've seen that excuse trotted out over and... More
Bloomberg Markets Finds the Rich Taking From the Poor
By Ryan Chittum Feb 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Bloomberg Markets has a terrific investigation into how a federal program meant to spur redevelopment in poor areas is funneling... More
Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom
A columnist’s misleading economic history
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:40 PM
Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush... 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 Seattle Times Takes On Hometown Amazon
A tough series on the dark side of the booming local company
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Here in Seattle, Amazon is growing like crazy, adding thousands of jobs and building several skyscrapers just off downtown, something... More
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 Bloomberg Investigation Exposes Cisco’s Tax Hypocrisy
CEO pushes for a repatration holiday while working hard to move profits overseas
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2011 at 02:25 PM
Cisco's billionaire CEO John Chambers has led the recent campaign to let multinationals repatriate their overseas profits to the U.S.... More
Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”
But there’s more to the story than we get from the AP and The Dallas Morning News
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The Associated Press reports that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's... More
Amazon’s California Tax Battle
Fighting to delay the end of its unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2011 at 02:37 PM
While billionaire Jeff Bezos is off crashing spaceships (or wannabe spaceships, anyway) in the West Texas desert, his company's unfair... More
Amazon’s California tax squeeze
A WSJ follow story waters down an LAT scoop from two weeks ago
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Amazon's long run of not paying collecting state and local sales taxes is coming to an end as legislatures finally... More
Audit Notes: ‘makers and takers’ edition
Romney’s “47 percent” comment continues to reverberate
By Ryan Chittum Sep 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
A big part of the problem with Mitt Romney's "47 percent" characterization, as I wrote yesterday, is that it uses... More
Audit Notes: WSJ on Selling Access, Wall Street-Style; Yanked; Small Paywalls
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2011 at 08:25 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story on how Wall Street gives hedge funds access to key... More
Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch
The NYT looks at the insider/outsider roles of Anita Dunn
By Ryan Chittum Oct 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times had an excellent story this weekend on Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who's got one foot... More
Audit Notes: Amazon’s shell company, The Lens, Plain Dealer cuts
Reuters unwinds how the online retail giant avoided taxes via Luxembourg
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Reuters has a nice investigation into Amazon's vigorous tax avoidance, and this time it's not about sales taxes. The wire... More
Audit notes: Chesapeake woes, the Untaxable, Reuters on HSBC
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2012 at 07:34 PM
The hits keep coming at Chesapeake Energy. Today, it's The Wall Street Journal's turn. It reports on page one that... More
Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes
By Ryan Chittum May 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American... More
Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM
Ken Doctor has a good post for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab on why news organizations need to be ramping up... More
Audit Notes: Derailed; Tax Know-Nothings, Press Bubble, Etc.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2010 at 04:40 PM
John Collins Rudolf writes at The New York Times's Green blog about the effect Tuesday's GOP landslide will have on... More
Audit Notes: Dimon the Persecuted, Mitt’s Taxes, Minimum Wage
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2012 at 02:32 AM
Yesterday we heard press favorite Jamie Dimon sputtering about how swipe-fee regulations, which capped how much big banks could gouge... More
Audit notes: Dollar dictator, the SEC’s small fry, Americans go Swiss
The Federal Reserve doesn’t answer solely to Ben Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 02:21 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien, whom you should really be reading, raises an important point lost in all the discussion about... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
