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60 Minutes With a Good Look at the Foreclosure Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Apr 5, 2011 at 07:45 PM
Hats off to 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley for taking a nice look at the foreclosure scandal on Sunday. Pelley... More
Pioneer Press On a Renting Crisis and the Almost-Homeless
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2011 at 08:06 PM
The St. Paul Pioneer Press does a good job looking at how a serious lack of affordable housing and the... More
The Miami Herald Gets Creative on the Bum Economy
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2011 at 07:09 PM
It's sometimes hard to find new angles on a story like the bum economy, which has been an ongoing story... More
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
An Atlantic Ghost Story
Housing crash porn with no “there” there
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2011 at 03:05 PM
The Atlantic runs a slideshow post by 24/7 Wall St.'s Douglas A. McIntyre with the click-me headline "The New American... 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: Economic Policy Edition
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2011 at 07:17 PM
Ezra Klein, in his long story (which you should read) on why and how Obama's economic policy failed (I should... More
Audit Notes: GE and Subprime, WaPo on Recess, Fed Fumes on Housing
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2012 at 08:04 PM
The Center for Public Integrity’s Michael Hudson continues one of the most important series of the last year, on how... More
Excellent Reporting on the Revolving Door By American Banker
Paper’s FOIA request shows a former FHA commish palling around with his future employer
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 01:46 PM
American Banker has a terrific story on the revolving door, digging into the records of former Federal Housing Authority commissioner... More
HuffPo Goes Underwater for Mortgage Story
Tip of the hat to a housing crisis report
By Joel Meares Feb 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM
A deep Friday tip of the hat to HuffPo’s Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, and Lucia Graves for their lengthy... More
Some Very Bad Housing Advice in The Philly Inquirer
By Felix Salmon Feb 1, 2011 at 07:19 PM
Erin Arvedlund -- yes, that Erin Arvedlund -- has a pretty crazy column in the Philadelphia Inquirer, under the headline... More
The Big Lie of the Crisis, Called Out By the Press
The false “banks didn’t do it” meme takes hold on the right, as Romney showed last night
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2011 at 05:33 PM
At CNBC's GOP debate last night, Mitt Romney showed that he, like Michael Bloomberg, buys into the Big Lie of... More
The housing market at an inflection point
The Journal explains why bidding wars are starting to bubble up again
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2012 at 07:00 AM
After seven or so years of bearishness on housing, I decided a few weeks back that the market was probably... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
