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Credit Default Swaps
Bloomberg on How a European AIG Would Hit the U.S.
Big U.S. banks are upping their exposure to Europe by selling credit-default swaps
By Ryan Chittum Nov 2, 2011 at 06:57 PM
Bloomberg News has an important report on how sovereign defaults in Europe could infect the U.S. banking system via ye... More
Goldman Exec’s “Rough Language” on Manipulating the Market
By Ryan Chittum Dec 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Senator Carl Levin released emails yesterday showing a Goldman Sachs executive exhorting his traders to engineer a short-squeeze The Wall... More
The WSJ’s Peculiar Reporting On GM Credit
By Felix Salmon Feb 28, 2011 at 11:19 AM
GM debt has been through a lot of late. In May 2009, car czar Steve Rattner made a bold and... More
Wall Street Running Out the Clock on Crash Charges (UPDATED)
Prosecutors finally focus on CDOs as the statute of limitations is running out
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2011 at 06:17 PM
The housing bubble popped five years ago. The securitization market went haywire four years ago, shortly after the derivatives market... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
