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FT Style Undermines A Good Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The Financial Times has a good investigation today into how hedge funds are stocking their boards with directors in the... More
FT: SEC Investigates a Magnetar Deal
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM
The FT's Kara Scannell scoops that the SEC is investigating a Magnetar CDO deal, probing Merrill Lynch and its handpicked... More
A chat with Lionel Barber
The editor of the Financial Times on what it means to be “digital first” and other topics
By Dean Starkman Jul 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Lionel Barber has been the editor the Financial Times since 2005. On a visit to New York earlier this spring,... More
Audit Notes: bad banks edition
Too big to behave or to fail
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Gretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions... 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: Criminal Query, Ritholtz on McKinsey; Obama’s Jobs Panel
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2011 at 07:47 PM
— The Financial Times reports that the SEC is investigating whether Las Vegas Sands bribed foreign officials. The headline: Sands... More
Audit Notes: Farmland Booms, Regulation and Jobs, Euro Sell-off
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2011 at 07:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports that farming is making something of a comeback on the edges of metro areas amid... 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
Audit Notes: FT denies Bloomberg report, Drudge stats, financialization
Misleading with bogus statistics
By Ryan Chittum Nov 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News reports that Pearson is considering putting the Financial Times up for sale, as Michael Wolff predicted a month... More
Audit Notes: FT’s Fairhead is out; BofA CEO stonewalls; Rent a Quote
But Pearson says the paper is not for sale.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
FT Group CEO Rona Fairhead got denied the top job at Pearson and so is stepping down as chairman and... More
Audit Notes: Gapper on SOPA, Japan’s Papers, Credit Card Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2012 at 09:24 PM
The reaction from internet evangelists over the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act has bordered on hysteria.... More
Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work
The FT comes out in favor of hiving off investment banks
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 08:04 PM
This is important: The Financial Times editorial page comes out in favor of a Glass-Steagall II that would once again... More
Audit Notes: Google moves on copyright, The Daily Shoe, Olympics
As its business interest aligns with content producers
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 09:28 PM
Google will finally begin to penalize pirate sites in its search algorithm. What took so long? The Wall Street Journal... More
Audit Notes: HuffPo Shines, Libor Lineup, An FT Slip
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM
I don't know about you, but the best news story I read today on the Levin-Coburn Report wasn't in the... More
Audit Notes: Inflation Inflation, FT on Frannie, Deep Downturns
By Ryan Chittum Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM
Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong catch Niall Ferguson in a whopper on inflation. Ferguson: And the reason the CPI is... More
Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value
The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death and... More
Audit Notes: Net Exposure, Crain’s Chicago Probe, Angelo’s Tumblr
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2011 at 07:50 PM
Gillian Tett of the Financial Times shows why banks hedging their European exposure with credit-default swaps aren't necessarily actually hedged.... More
Audit Notes: News Corp. split edition
More on the implications of Murdoch’s move
By Ryan Chittum Jun 27, 2012 at 08:06 PM
The Financial Times's John Gapper has the best take on what Rupert Murdoch's bustup of News Corporation means: Some US... More
Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM
American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More
Audit Notes: Panic in the Markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 08:03 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 512 points today, some 4.3 percent, as panic takes hold in global markets. The... 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”
In one tweet
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A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
