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sensationalism
Audit Notes: Financial Capture, Homeless, Amy Chua Criticizes WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2011 at 08:09 PM
Simon Johnson notes something big that Goldman Sachs dances around in its report on its internal culture released this week... More
Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Whale, rent-a-quotes, shark videos
By Ryan Chittum Jul 13, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This New York Times story on JPMorgan's regulators is not well edited, but it has some interesting reporting: At one... More
Business Insider and Financial Press Sensationalism
Henry Blodget & Co. stroke the id of the Internet
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM
What business press readers always lacked but never really needed was a tabloid sensationalist to hype up mundane markets and... More
Sensationalism and Consumerism, Paid For on the News
The Post pulls up a bit short on plugola
By Ryan Chittum Dec 7, 2011 at 08:19 PM
I like this Washington Post story on how product experts popping up on newscasts are frequently paid by companies 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.
