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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged sourcing

1. March 28, 2012 07:34 PM

   Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in disposable income for each decile of the Irish population in 2010, after the country's leaders, who had made one of the all-time stupidest (or most craven) moves ever in assuming the obligations of its giant banks, imposed harsh austerity programs...

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2. July 10, 2012 06:06 PM

   Manufactured quotes

   News organizations fail to disclose “regular Joe” businessmen's lobbying ties

   By Ryan Chittum

   Two weeks ago The New York Times wheeled out that old chestnut of Great Recession-era economic reporting: Companies can't find workers, despite high unemployment. This one was mercifully buried inside Business Day, but it got 1,200 words all the same, including this top: After the latest, disappointing unemployment figures, policy makers and economists continue to debate how American companies might...

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3. July 18, 2012 04:38 PM

   More on NPR and manufactured quotes

   Why lobbyist-provided rent-a-quotes subvert the news

   By Ryan Chittum

   NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos (who teaches here at Columbia) takes a look at the network's poor showing with manufacturing sources over the last few weeks. I wrote about this last Tuesday, noting how a couple of small businessmen, including a New Jersey printer named Joe Olivo, show up frequently in news stories that don't disclose their ties to lobbying groups....

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4. September 9, 2011 06:57 PM

   The Business Press’s Favorite Talking Head

   Mark Zandi on speed dial

   By Ryan Chittum

   My first reaction to this Bloomberg article was to write this on the Twitter: hey, whaddya know, Mark Zandi is quoted in an article If you read the business press at all, you're surely familiar with Zandi, who's quoted like nobody else. You don't want to put a Google Alert on this guy, if you know what I mean. Zandi...

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5. January 18, 2011 06:53 PM

   The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving

   Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death

   By Ryan Chittum

   Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he died. Now it's Fortune's turn to put the same source on the record posthumously. And it, unlike the WSJ, at least tells readers that its conversation with Jerome York was off the record: However, during that absence, Fortune can report,...

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