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3 things big media can do to save independent journalism

This is adapted from Rebecca MacKinnon’s 2012 Hearst New Media Lecture, given at Columbia’s J-school on April 19

By The Editors May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM

By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media... More

On the Media silent on NPR retraction

The show should address This American Life’s disavowal of its Mike Daisey story

By Justin D. Martin Apr 30, 2012 at 01:54 PM

I rarely miss an episode of NPR’s On the Media, which is essential listening for information on media trends and... More

And that’s the way it was: April 11, 1976

The first Apple computer is created

By Sang Ngo Apr 11, 2013 at 06:49 AM

On this day in 1976, the original Apple computer was built. It was designed and assembled by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak... More

Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda

By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM

This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More

Audit Notes: Charles Murray’s Lunch, Morgenson on Fairfax, Knight-Ridder’s iPad

By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2012 at 07:59 PM

The Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders writes this on Twitter: What Charles Murray had for lunch while telling the FT... More

Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall

By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2012 at 08:37 PM

Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced... 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: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr

By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2012 at 08:35 PM

Quote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley... More

Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author

By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM

Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More

Audit Notes: Limited Liability, Apple’s “Tons of Issues,” Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum Feb 17, 2012 at 07:44 PM

The London Review of Books has a fascinating piece by the Bank of England's Andrew Haldane on excessive financial-industry risk.... More

Audit Notes: Steve Jobs

By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2011 at 02:08 AM

Here's Wired's striking homepage reporting the death of Steve Jobs: Scroll down and you get gray text with obituary comments... More

Audit Notes: Steve Jobs, WSJ on Hacking, NYPD As Domestic CIA

By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2011 at 07:02 PM

Awful news just hit the tape that Steve Jobs's health has finally forced him to resign as CEO of Apple:... More

Audit Notes: The Bloomberg Way, Conflicts in Congress, Apple and Wikileakspedia

By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2010 at 06:45 PM

One of the knocks on Bloomberg News is that the place is a bit, well, cultish. This quote doesn't help... More

Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet

This is the text of this year’s Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School

By Rebecca MacKinnon May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM

How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this... 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

Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells

By Lauren Kirchner Mar 24, 2011 at 01:15 PM

The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious... More

iPad Magazines: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating

Tablet news following a pattern as old as paper itself

By Zachary Sniderman Jun 21, 2011 at 11:50 AM

Last December, headlines decreed that the digital publishing world was falling apart. After an initial surge, iPad magazine sales were... More

Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey

A classy confession doesn’t negate the crime

By Lawrence Pintak Mar 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell... More

Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)

Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger

By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM

The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes... More