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NYT Follows Walmart’s Weird OSHA Fight
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2011 at 02:40 PM
The New York Times reported this weekend that a judge upheld $7,000 fine OSHA levied against Walmart for the trampling... More
Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact
ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to... More
Audit Notes: The Sovereign Risk Genie, Regulatory Complexity, Wal-Mart and Bank Fees
By Ryan Chittum Nov 11, 2011 at 07:22 PM
The Economist's Greg Ip says the European crisis, at its core, is not about Silvio Berlusconi or even Italian debt... More
Blodget Asks a Taboo Question on Wages and Profits
By Ryan Chittum Feb 16, 2012 at 04:08 PM
I like this Henry Blodget thought experiment on how much more major companies could afford to compensate their ill-paid employees.... More
Farm to Table
Tracie McMillan reports on the American way of eating
By David Riedel Apr 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | By Tracie McMillan |... More
NYT Obscures Wal-Mart, EDF Link
Article overlooks green group’s close ties to Walton Family Foundation
By Curtis Brainard Apr 25, 2012 at 06:59 AM
A recent New York Times article about the Environmental Defense Fund’s efforts to help Wal-Mart “cut waste” painted an incomplete... More
Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM
The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More
Stories I’d Like to See
Cheney’s heart, CVS and privacy, and Walmart’s guns
By Steven Brill Apr 17, 2012 at 12:14 PM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Stories I’d like to see
Homeland loses focus, ditching the filibuster, unions that own big business
By Steven Brill May 8, 2012 at 12:11 PM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Stories I’d like to see
Drachma redux, Hoffa’s killers, besting JPMorgan
By Steven Brill May 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Stories I’d like to see
A working legislature, post informant life and Wal-Mart’s guns
By Steven Brill Jan 15, 2013 at 11:06 AM
In his “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More
The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Apr 23, 2012 at 06:38 PM
David Barstow's epic Wal-Mart investigation in the Sunday New York Times has already lopped $10 billion off the company's market... More
Walmart’s Unions
They do exist—outside the U.S.—as a Washington Post story shows
By Ryan Chittum Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM
It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
