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A Columnist Recants, but the WSJ Edit Page Won’t Hear it
The paper runs a flawed column and declines to publish the retraction
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM
A year and a half ago, George Mason University economics professor Daniel B. Klein wrote a column about his finding... More
A laurel to The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta
For calling on reporters to repeat the truth as often as needed, and showing how to do it
By Greg Marx Aug 17, 2012 at 03:43 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic, whose astute web piece “What to Do With Political... 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
Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Michael Lewis, who says he sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Street movement, interviews himself on what he would do if... More
Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Sure enough, the Justice Department charged former Credit Suisse CDO executive Kareem Serageldin with fraud for allegedly artificially inflating CDO... More
Audit Notes: College Sports, NY AG Probing Lehman Execs, Shale Drilling
By Ryan Chittum Sep 13, 2011 at 07:46 PM
— Taylor Branch's cover story in the new Atlantic is a devastating indictment of the NCAA, a must-read for anyone... More
Audit notes: Dollar dictator, the SEC’s small fry, Americans go Swiss
The Federal Reserve doesn’t answer solely to Ben Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 02:21 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien, whom you should really be reading, raises an important point lost in all the discussion about... More
Audit Notes: Fallows on Orszag, The Atlantic in the Black, Google
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Obama cabinet official Peter Orszag took a spin through the revolving door and ended up in a million-dollar sinecure at... More
Audit Notes: More on Inequality, Les Hinton’s Memory
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2011 at 06:36 PM
The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of... More
Audit notes: News Corp.’s board, Lehman’s hubris, Awards and Slideshows
David Carr eyes Rupert Murdoch’s crony-filled board of directors
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2012 at 12:55 AM
David Carr takes a look at the News Corporation board of directors, which is as stacked with the CEO's cronies... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz
The Atlantic on what would be Mitt’s “Path to Prosperity”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 01:56 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien has the best snap financial analysis of Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as a running... More
Big Companies and Jobs, Then and Now
By Ryan Chittum Apr 21, 2011 at 10:46 PM
New York's Andre Tartar has a intriguing post on the biggest American corporations and how much their employment levels have... More
Clearly, Quartz wants to help elites go optimize themselves
The Atlantic’s new business site enters a crowded field catering to the 0.1 percent
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 12:58 AM
The Atlantic's big new business-journalism project is off to an inauspicious start. First there's the name: Quartz, which is different,... More
Covering the Fringe Candidates
How should the press decide which dissents to take seriously?
By Greg Marx Aug 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Jon Huntsman’s campaign for president doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, so why does he retain his commanding lead in... More
Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines
Losing the count
By Erin Siegal Mar 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM
It's appropriate that the red, the color of passion and anger, represents the female male slice of the pie in... More
Financial reporting, for pros and the public
A panel of top financial journalists consider their true audience
By Peter Sterne Jan 15, 2013 at 04:30 PM
Do business journalists write for professional traders or for the general public? That was one of the main questions in... More
The media’s Internet infatuation
Much of the coverage makes claims “that are grand, outlandish, and ultimately unverifiable”
By Michael Massing Aug 15, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times finds the Internet, and the business and culture surrounding it, endlessly fascinating. When Marissa Mayer was... More
The State of the Blog
Felix Salmon Talks to Alexis Madrigal
By Felix Salmon Jul 1, 2011 at 02:36 AM
I’ve felt for a while now that the kind of blogging I do — one person writing a series... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
