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Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom
A columnist’s misleading economic history
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:40 PM
Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush... More
A New Entry in the Health Care Lexicon
Beware of “centralized medical planning”
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 29, 2011 at 04:23 PM
Lawrence Hunter, a contributor on Forbes.com, took on President Obama the other day, listing a number of White House initiatives... More
Audit Notes: Papacare, Post problem, trade reporting
Forbes finds Papa John’s Obamacare math doesn’t add up
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2012 at 03:08 AM
Papa John's CEO John Schnatter has been carping for some time that Obamacare will add 10 to 14 cents to... More
Audit Notes: Up Next For Wikileaks: The Banks, Forbes, Gaming Google
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2010 at 07:19 PM
Julian Assange is Forbes's cover boy this week. No surprise there. He just turned the diplomatic community on its head... More
Bercovici Is Wrong on “Journalism 2.0” Causing Afghan Murders
By Ryan Chittum Apr 7, 2011 at 03:36 PM
Forbes's Jeff Bercovici would like you to know that those UN workers murdered in Afghanistan after a Florida Koran-burning were... More
Best of 2010: Ryan Chittum
Chittum picks his top stories from 2009 2010
By Ryan Chittum Dec 24, 2010 at 01:20 PM
Business Journalism on Prozac: A look at an issue of Fortune finds the magazine painting a picture of the corporate... More
Billionaires made from scratch? Hardly
Forbes spins a bogus Horatio Alger story about its 400 richest list
By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Forbes touts its annual list of the 400 richest U.S. billionaires as evidence "that the American dream is still... More
Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s Problematic WikiLeaks Story
Red flags aflutter as the news outfit runs with seriously questionable evidence
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2011 at 07:02 PM
How many red flags can we count in this Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece on WikiLeaks? First there's the headline: Is Wikileaks... More
Climate Conundrums
Slack coverage, quality issues stir debate
By Curtis Brainard Jan 10, 2011 at 01:16 PM
2010 was “the year climate coverage ‘fell off the map,’” The Daily Climate, a website that tracks related news and... More
Digital ads and grains of salt
Assessing recent claims
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Some data are better than no data, I suppose, but it always pays to be skeptical when companies disclose... More
Tele-what?
Reporters must embrace the future with coverage of remote health monitoring
By Neil Versel Jan 6, 2011 at 01:20 PM
As a journalist who for the last decade has covered the use of information technology in health care, I’m rather... More
The New York Times Company in 2015
Trendlines—as of right now—don’t point to its demise
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2012 at 07:17 PM
Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? That's unknowable, of course. A lot can... More
Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2012 at 07:55 PM
You might think this is an Onion-style parody of a column by a right-wing think tanker: But it's no joke.... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
