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sourcing
Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2012 at 07:34 PM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in... More
Manufactured quotes
News organizations fail to disclose “regular Joe” businessmen’s lobbying ties
By Ryan Chittum Jul 10, 2012 at 06:06 PM
Two weeks ago The New York Times wheeled out that old chestnut of Great Recession-era economic reporting: Companies can't find... More
More on NPR and manufactured quotes
Why lobbyist-provided rent-a-quotes subvert the news
By Ryan Chittum Jul 18, 2012 at 04:38 PM
NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos (who teaches here at Columbia) takes a look at the network's poor showing with manufacturing sources... More
The Business Press’s Favorite Talking Head
Mark Zandi on speed dial
By Ryan Chittum Sep 9, 2011 at 06:57 PM
My first reaction to this Bloomberg article was to write this on the Twitter: hey, whaddya know, Mark Zandi is... More
The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving
Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM
Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
