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Fortune goes long on Amazon and taxes
How the retailer manipulated a broken government system to get an unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum May 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
I've been following the Amazon tax-avoidance story for years now, and I haven't seen it better-told than it is on... More
Fortune Inside the Pfizer Fiasco
A deeply reported piece on a management crisis at the giant drug company
By Ryan Chittum Aug 25, 2011 at 04:40 PM
Fortune has a dandy read in this issue on an executive fiasco at Pfizer that led to the sacking of... More
Fortune on the French
France’s “unproductive labor force” is, in fact, quite productive
By Ryan Chittum Feb 26, 2013 at 11:22 AM
The abrasive tire CEO Maurice Taylor made news last week when he lashed out at French workers as "lazy" good-for-nothings.... More
Fortune’s Nina Easton plumps for Walmart in DC
Retail employment is a zero-sum game
By Ryan Chittum Jul 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The argument that if a company doesn't get its way, X number of jobs will disappear is an old canard... More
And that’s the way it was: February 28, 1967
Henry Robinson Luce, co-founder of Time Inc., dies at age 68
By Sang Ngo Feb 28, 2013 at 06:49 AM
On this day in 1967, Henry Luce, perhaps the greatest magazine editor/publisher of the mid-20th century, died in Phoenix. Born... More
Audit Notes: BizWeek Soars, Barofsky in Fortune, A Picture of Deflation
By Ryan Chittum Apr 6, 2011 at 08:17 PM
It's been more than a year now since Bloomberg took over BusinessWeek, rebranded it, expanded it, and put Josh Tyrangiel... 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: Jamie’s WaMu Dud, Sloan on Foreclosuregate, Sorkin
By Ryan Chittum Nov 2, 2010 at 06:30 PM
Bloomberg Bloomberg Markets takes a long look at the troubles facing JPMorgan Chase, the latest of which is that Jamie... More
Audit Notes: Marketers’ Memories, Labor’s Last Legs, Fortune in Afghanistan
By Ryan Chittum May 25, 2011 at 07:44 PM
Over at Wired, Jonah Lehrer looks at how marketers invade our heads: A new study, published in The Journal of... More
Audit Notes: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten
The magazine’s picks for future Apple and Microsoft CEOs go awry immediately
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Fortune peered into its crystal ball for the October 29 issue and came up with four "best bets" on who's... 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 2010: Dean Starkman
CJR’s Kingsford Capital Fellow picks his top stories of the year
By Dean Starkman Dec 28, 2010 at 09:23 AM
The Hamster Wheel. Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere. The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s... 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
Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment
The former GE CEO, still a business press hero
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Former GE CEO Jack Welch made waves last week claiming—with zero evidence—that the Obama administration manipulated the unemployment report that... More
Must-reads of 2012: business
By Ryan Chittum Dec 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Vast Mexico Bribery Case... More
Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’
Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 01:51 PM
I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after... More
ProPublica and Fortune’s Unhelpful Post on GE’s Taxes
Taking the company’s word for it to rebut The New York Times
By Ryan Chittum Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Fortune's Allan Sloan and ProPublica's Jeff Gerth asserted a couple of days ago that The New York Times got it... More
Quick Facts on the China Trade
You didn’t read them in Fortune
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2010 at 07:53 PM
CNBC's Becky Quick tosses off a dud over at Fortune, telling us all to "Stop the Beijing bashing!" because the... More
Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp.
Its abysmal corporate governance is symptomatic of a deeper disregard for the rules
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Rupert Murdoch's board of directors was in the spotlight a bit yesterday, with stories in The Daily Beast and The... More
The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman
CNBC’s Becky Quick thinks, wrongly, the economist is alone in debunking “fiscal crisis”
By Ryan Chittum Oct 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This summer, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went on CNBC to talk about his book and ended up getting... 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
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
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The NYT shows us why
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
