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Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs
An economic calamity and its human faces
By Joel Meares Mar 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM
A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue... More
Ask Obama This: What about housing?
What went wrong with the administration’s mortgage policies
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Audit Notes: blame the borrowers, Walmart cashiers, newspaper prices
The Democratic Party platform on mortgage issues
By Ryan Chittum Sep 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Henry Blodget somehow thinks that "everyone has spent the last five years trying to blame the housing crash on every... More
Audit Notes: Dodger Money, Social News Apps, U.S. Mowing Bills
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2012 at 01:26 AM
Andrew Ross Sorkin writes a tough column on the group of investors buying (or supposedly buying) the Los Angeles Dodgers... More
Audit Notes: Energy Economy, Insider Trading, Mortgage Settlement
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 PM
Here's a good Wall Street Journal page-one story on how the energy boom is driving economic activity across the U.S.... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Lobbyists, Reuters on Chesapeake, Shadow Space (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2012 at 01:40 AM
Top News Corporation officials talked about enlisting the top Wall Street Journal Europe editor to lobby politicians for Murdoch's multibillionaire... More
Audit Notes: The Swipe-Fee Battle, Homeless Kids, Angelides on Fire
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2011 at 06:03 PM
Bloomberg News has an excellent recount of how the debit-card swipe-fee battle was waged. Its headline is just about perfect:... More
The Free Press Probes Fannie and Freddie
The giant bailout recipients are dumping inventory in Detroit and pushing foreclosures over modifications
By Ryan Chittum Aug 15, 2011 at 05:55 PM
A Detroit Free Press investigation raises some interesting questions about why government-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are pushing foreclosures... 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.


