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Antitrust
American Banker Shows DOJ Sat On a Bank-Kickback Scandal
HUD says big banks got $6 billion, but the attorney general does nothing
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2011 at 02:52 PM
American Banker has really been doing some superb stuff lately. Jeff Horwitz has a big scoop in today's paper, reporting... More
Amazon sharecroppers
The Seattle Times on the hometown giant’s uneasy relationship with its merchants
By Ryan Chittum Nov 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times has another good story on Amazon, this time reporting on the hometown giant's lopsided relationship with its... More
AT&T’s Cellphone Industry Rollup Gets Second-Day Scrutiny
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2011 at 01:28 PM
The business press continues to be skeptical in its second-day coverage of AT&T's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile. That's a... More
AT&T’s Hubris
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2011 at 02:48 PM
The Justice Department is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, which would have consolidated three-quarters of cellphone-plan market... More
Audit Notes: Amazon and antitrust, techspeak, ‘Peter Drucker with an Afro’
The DOJ’s ebook settlement could enable anticompetitive behavior
By Ryan Chittum Sep 12, 2012 at 01:33 AM
The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik gets it on Amazon and the Justice Department's seriously misguided antitrust lawsuit against book... More
Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2012 at 07:49 PM
David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department... More
Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 13, 2012 at 08:05 PM
Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, writes a good Slate piece... More
Audit Notes: Economic Headwinds, Refinancing, Google’s Dominance
By Ryan Chittum Sep 19, 2011 at 07:25 PM
Crain's New York Business's Aaron Elstein takes a good look anecdotes at the headwinds New York's economy is facing from... More
Audit Notes: Ma Bell II—Duopoly Edition
By Ryan Chittum Mar 23, 2011 at 11:51 PM
The Financial Times's John Gapper has an excellent column on why the AT&T's proposed deal for T-Mobile should be shot... More
Audit Notes: Risky Business, Two Economies, Google and Monopoly
By Ryan Chittum Dec 13, 2010 at 08:17 PM
The New York Times is good to keep an eye on signs of a return of risky lending. Today it... More
Deal Myopia in the WSJ and NYT on Hard Drive Merger
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2011 at 02:52 PM
Here's a good example of how poorly the business press covers acquisitions that could hurt competition. The Wall Street Journal... More
Ebooks and Antitrust
The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Back in 2010, a giant retailer had 90 percent of a market—a near total monopoly (monopsony, if you want to... More
Four Ws From the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Jun 2, 2011 at 06:41 PM
The Wall Street Journal messes up a story atop its Marketplace section today that reports that a judge ordered American... More
Good Consolidation Coverage for a Change on AT&T Deal
The business press is skeptical of creating a duopoly in cell phone service
By Ryan Chittum Mar 21, 2011 at 07:41 PM
Fortune's Seth Weintraub pulls a four-year-old Stephen Colbert clip that's as good a place as any to kick off a... More
Google’s Search Dominance Comes In Handy for Its Other Businesses
The Wall Street Journal looks at a key competitive issue on the Web.
By Ryan Chittum Dec 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Google has a near-monopoly on search in the U.S. It uses that dominant position to boost its other businesses at... 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
Homeless Shelters 4 AT&T-Verizon Duopoly
By Ryan Chittum Oct 17, 2011 at 03:17 PM
In June, Politico and the Washington Post ran stories showing how, in exchange for Ma Bell's cash, nonprofits like NAACP... More
Pearlstein Takes On Google’s Threat to Competition
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2010 at 04:19 PM
The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein takes up the Google monopoly case today with an excellent column in The Washington Post.... More
Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat
Internal emails show companies scheming to lower bids on drilling rights
By Ryan Chittum Jul 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues to draw a bead on Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, whose scalp it will be claiming... More
The Journal Misses on Ebooks and Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum Apr 25, 2012 at 07:55 PM
It's usually wise to read an "experts say" story a little more skeptically than you normally would. That's the case... 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.
