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Squawk on the Street’s Haines Dies at 65
By Joel Meares May 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM
CNBC’s Mark Haines died unexpectedly Tuesday night at age 65. Haines was the founding anchor of the network’s popular... More
A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC
The network’s tweet creates a misleading media narrative on the veep debate
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2012 at 03:57 AM
Whoever was running the CNBC Twitter feed last night didn't know the difference between a scientific poll and a Web... More
A Zombie Lie Is Born
CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Two days ago I fisked a false report from CNBC that said more than a third of all wages and... More
Adventures With CNBC Anchors’ Statistics
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2011 at 04:21 PM
CNBC’s Joe Kernen reports the news in the morning in a fast-paced environment where it’s difficult to be 100% accurate.... More
Audit Notes: Bill Black on CNBC, LAT eyes Ryan’s budget, robosigning
The ex-regulator might as well have been beamed in by the Curiosity rover
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 02:44 AM
Bill Black goes on CNBC and shreds Maria Bartiromo and Bethany McLean on whether Goldman Sachs (and others) could and... More
Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits
The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday.... More
Audit Notes: Hank the hero, Des Moines, Norwegian wood
The FT’s John Gapper reviews the former AIG CEO’s autobiography
By Ryan Chittum Feb 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
John Gapper's Financial Times review of the new Hank Greenberg (the disgraced former AIG CEO, not the All Star baseball... More
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace
Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM
CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More
Audit Notes: Meredith Whitney’s press, Steve Forbes, revolving door
An aversion to the press, proclaimed amidst a press tour
By Ryan Chittum Jul 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Michael Aneiro of Barron's watches Meredith Whitney, the discredited Cassandra of the municipal-bond market, on CNBC. Whitney has been popping... More
Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked
A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More
Audit Notes: NYT yacht coverage, Diluted tech stocks, CNBC
How stock options obscure what companies like Facebook are really worth
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times takes a tough look at a pressing issue in our struggling economy: "How to Keep Yachting... More
Audit Notes: Reuters on Chesapeake, Krugman on CNBC, Waldman on banks
The wire uncovers more emails showing potential collusion between competitors
By Ryan Chittum Jul 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues its tremendous investigation into natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon. Brian Grow and Joshua... More
Audit Notes: scoops and leaks, CNBC hardball, FT on Dow Jones CEO
The WSJ sniffs at a USA Today exclusive on Obama’s immigration plan
By Ryan Chittum Feb 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's totally a shoe-leather scoop when you get the story. It's a "leak" when somebody else does. That's what The... More
Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith
An excellent personal-finance story from the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
What would Social Security coverage look like if the press covered it more like personal finance reporters cover IRAs and... More
Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus
JPMorgan CEO takes to CNBC for consolation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly... More
Audit Notes: Whither The Guardian, Blodget breathes fire, CNBC flop
The New Statesman profiles editor Alan Rusbridger
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 01:52 AM
This long New Statesman profile of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, which also delves into the financial woes of his paper,... More
Becky Quick Thinks the Fed Is Too Focused on Jobs
That makes no sense historically or in the current context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM
CNBC's Becky Quick uses her Fortune column to argue that the Federal Reserve should break the law. The law says... More
Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 30, 2011 at 01:36 AM
Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a... More
Best of 2012: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his favorite posts of the year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 28, 2012 at 05:33 PM
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course — Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry. CNBC:... More
Bloomberg Gives Newt Another Frannie Headache
Executives contradict Gingrich’s account of his advice
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2011 at 03:57 PM
Newt Gingrich has a Frannie problem. The former Speaker of the House used to work for Freddie Mac but is... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
