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corruption
Barron’s On a Deadly Russian Tax Heist
Bureaucrats and thugs laundered hundreds of millions through Credit Suisse
By Ryan Chittum Apr 20, 2011 at 06:49 PM
Bill Alpert has a must-read story in Barron's this week—a wild tale of overt Russian corruption involving a $230 million... More
Audit Notes: Sun-Times Daley Probe, CanadaCare Myths, Off the News
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2011 at 12:41 AM
The Chicago Sun-Times has a dandy investigation today reporting that the son of former Mayor Richard Daley made skads of... More
Audit notes: Facebook disclosure, Facebook value, soft corruption
By Ryan Chittum May 22, 2012 at 05:58 PM
Business Insider's Henry Blodget, who knows a thing or two about analyst/IPO scandals, writes that Facebook and/or its bankers could... More
Audit Notes: Gore gorges, 60 Minutes in New Orleans, Wired
The former vice president twists arms and cashes in on Current TV
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Read Brian Stelter's excellent coverage in The New York Times of Al Gore's role in building and selling Current TV:... More
Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Mar 23, 2012 at 07:35 PM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil just guts a Center for Public Integrity report card on state corruption. It found that New Jersey... More
Audit Notes: WaPo on Avandia, giving away the store, plutocrats
Report shows how drug research is corrupted by corporate money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey has another outstanding story in his series on the Avandia drug scandal at GlaxoSmithKline and... More
Checkbook Journalism’s Slippery Slope
Murdoch’s scandals show why paying for news is a bad idea
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Combine the culture of checkbook journalism with the culture of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and you get one of the... 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
News Corp. and Murdoch Swamped By Hacking Scandal News
Revelations come fast and furious in the twenty-four hours after a Guardian bombshell
By Ryan Chittum Jul 5, 2011 at 08:07 PM
The Murdoch hacking scandal has metastasized twenty-four hours after The Guardian's bombshell that News Corporation's News of the World tabloid... 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
The Audit TV: Murdoch Hacking Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jul 8, 2011 at 11:37 AM
The News of the World hacking scandal is like the Super Bowl of media criticism or something. I talked to... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
