“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”

East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement

By Joel Meares   Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More

L.A. Times Examines Trump’s Gold-Plated Corporate Welfare

By Ryan Chittum   May 11, 2011 at 02:49 PM

How do you handle covering a candidacy that's primarily a publicity stunt by a crazed ego and presshound—one with approximately... More

L.A. Times Quantifies the Dominance of the Finance Lobby

No “obtained” records here or even FOIAs; this info was in plain sight

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 15, 2010 at 06:57 AM

The Los Angeles Times drops some good reporting this morning on regulation and the financial lobby, aggregating publicly available records... More

LAT on the U.S. As Low-Wage Offshoring Destination

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Where does Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory... More

LAT On Why Solyndra Dazzled the Private and Public Sectors

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 26, 2011 at 06:23 PM

The Los Angeles Times has a really good look at the failure of Solyndra, the solar-power company that went bankrupt... More

LAT Watchdogs Wall Street on the GM IPO

The banks just can’t help themselves, and if shares soar, political problems await.

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03 PM

The L.A. Times takes a smart tack on the General Motors IPO story, reporting that it shows how Wall Street... More

A Medicare Miss at the LA Times

Some fact-checking, please

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 18, 2011 at 02:33 PM

Medicare is a bear to write about. It’s tough for beneficiaries to understand, and unclear news stories only serve to... 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

Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2011 at 07:58 PM

Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More

Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2012 at 08:37 PM

Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced... More

Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM

Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More

Best of 2010: Dean Starkman

CJR’s Kingsford Capital Fellow picks his top stories of the year

By Dean Starkman   Dec 28, 2010 at 09:23 AM

The Hamster Wheel. Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere. The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s... More

Hiltzik Takes on the FCC on the Comcast-NBC Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2011 at 03:53 PM

John Dunbar has a must-read piece in the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review on why the Comcast-NBC Merger is... More

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them

By Joel Meares   Apr 18, 2011 at 03:31 PM

The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award... More

Pulitzer Winners Go Behind the Scenes of Their Stories

Reaching for the high-hanging fruit

By Alysia Santo   Oct 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM

Four of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners visited the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night to discuss their... More