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200 Years of Citi
An alternate history
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More
A Bloomberg Investigation Exposes Cisco’s Tax Hypocrisy
CEO pushes for a repatration holiday while working hard to move profits overseas
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2011 at 02:25 PM
Cisco's billionaire CEO John Chambers has led the recent campaign to let multinationals repatriate their overseas profits to the U.S.... More
A Little Healthy Outrage on Executive Pay
By Ryan Chittum Apr 6, 2011 at 02:16 PM
Roger Lowenstein had an excellent Bloomberg column a couple of weeks ago on outlandish executive compensation. Unfortunately, it got one... More
A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack
The wire’s poorly worded story is misread
By Ryan Chittum Nov 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mitt Romney's gotten in hot water with the nation's burgeoning horde of fact checkers by asserting that Jeep "is thinking... More
Audit Notes: WSJ’s Facebook Non-News, Bogus Bloomberg, Tabloid Id
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 PM
Fortune's Dan Primack calls out The Wall Street Journal for hyping non-news on page one that Facebook is going to... More
Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM
This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg apologizes, Snow Fall re-imagined, Carr on Advance
Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has gotten a big black eye for snooping on its customers, and Editor-In-Chief Matt Winkler apologizes in a... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg Blues, Weil Audits Goldman’s Board, Does Not Compute
By Ryan Chittum May 26, 2011 at 07:54 PM
Slate's Jack Shafer shreds Bloomberg View, the new Bloomberg editorial page. He writes, "I'd rather go blind than look at... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg Empire Edition
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2011 at 06:46 PM
Reuters's Jack Shafer writes that Bloomberg BusinessWeek has become the best magazine in the country, his "primary source of long-form,... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg eyes CMBS, newspaper optimism, Weil on bank books
Signs of froth return to commercial real estate lending
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News is good to keep an eye on the securitization market for early signs of froth. It reports that... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg on the Fed, OCC Meddles for Banks, Who Runs the World
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2011 at 07:57 PM
Bloomberg News is flooding the zone on the Fed's discount-window document dump, which the central bank had to disclose after... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s Euphemisms, ETFs and CDOs, TechCrunch and Goldman
By Ryan Chittum Sep 15, 2011 at 07:36 PM
It's sort of darkly amusing to read all the euphemisms in this Bloomberg News story reporting on the latest warnings... 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: 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: CDS Watch, Murdoch’s Email, Fracking and Quaking
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a good look at how European banks have been busy writing hundreds of billions of... More
Audit Notes: Citi’s Slaps, College Is Cheap, Voicemail Interception Compensation Scheme
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2011 at 07:38 PM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil has an excellent, tough column on the latest settlement between Citigroup and the SEC, which shows how... More
Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes
Stephen Moore on how “the greens” supposedly want to plunge America into darkness
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life... More
Audit Notes: Forced Fed, Bank Wages, Schroeder on Buffett
By Ryan Chittum Apr 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM
The press continues to rifle through the Fed's discount window data dump, finding that Some 70 percent of all loans... More
Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM
Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More
Audit Notes: Fox on the Overpaid, Winkler Smiles, FT Ads
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2011 at 06:33 PM
The Fox News propaganda machine has been ramped up to portray $700 a week teachers and other government employees as... 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.
