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200 Years of Citi
An alternate history
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More
60 Minutes Revisits Lehman, Valukas, and Repo 105
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2012 at 07:19 PM
Remember the Valukas Report? That court-appointed bankruptcy examiner'sinvestigation into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found a number of colorable claims... More
60 Minutes’ Tough Piece on Crisis Prosecutions
Kroft on the lack thereof
By Ryan Chittum Dec 6, 2011 at 07:31 PM
A tip of the cap to 60 Minutes for an excellent report Sunday asking about the lack of criminal prosecutions... More
Frontline hits hard on the lack of crisis prosecutions
And a top DOJ official resigns the next day
By Ryan Chittum Jan 31, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We'd be remiss to not flag Frontline's outstanding investigation into the shameful failure of the Obama administration to pursue, much... More
NYT Reports Bear Stearns Wasn’t Alone on Putbacks
Plus, Wall Street saw fraud signs, demanded money back, then kept buying loans
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 02:50 PM
The New York Times has a very good look today at what the Ambac lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase could mean... More
NYT With More on the SEC’s Soft Touch With Big Banks
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2012 at 02:41 PM
The New York Times has an excellent investigation today that shows in a new light how the SEC lets Wall... More
NYT: Fabulous Fab Pointed Fingers at Goldman
By Ryan Chittum Jun 1, 2011 at 01:16 PM
Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson raise a good question in their agenda-setting piece in The New York Times this morning:... More
The Economist on the Libor scandal
What happened and why it matters
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 02:08 PM
If you haven't paid much attention yet to the Libor scandal, this Economist piece will get you caught up quickly.... More
A Damning NYT Investigation Into Justice Wall Street Style
Bankers skate as regulators and prosecutors protect financial interests above all else
By Ryan Chittum Apr 14, 2011 at 01:44 PM
The New York Times has the story of the week, a superb investigation into why there haven't been prosecutions on... More
A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press
HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story
By Ryan Chittum May 19, 2011 at 07:43 PM
Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry... More
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Fraud Triggered the Financial Crisis
A more important statement than you might think from the NYT’s Wall Street guy
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2010 at 09:19 AM
There was a tough column in The New York Times yesterday on how the feds' are going after the minnows... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg on Libor, “can’t find workers” in the WSJ
At least 34 traders are under investigation in the widening scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jul 20, 2012 at 12:57 AM
Bloomberg names names in the Libor investigation, reporting that at least 34 traders from more than a dozen banks are... More
Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Sure enough, the Justice Department charged former Credit Suisse CDO executive Kareem Serageldin with fraud for allegedly artificially inflating CDO... More
Audit Notes: due diligence, Elizabeth Warren, the Murdoch way
More evidence from private lawsuits on unprosecuted bank executives
By Ryan Chittum Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times follows last week's reports on Dexia's lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase of fraud for its mortgage activities during... More
Audit Notes: Finally, Fraud Charges; Gee Whiz Wired; Freddie
By Ryan Chittum Feb 1, 2012 at 01:30 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports, and as far as I can tell, scoops that the Justice Department is preparing to... More
Audit Notes: Financial Fraud and the Economy, TBTF Debts, Health Care
By Ryan Chittum Apr 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM
Mike Konczal has some good thoughts on the Levin-Coburn Report, financial fraud, and ProPublica's Pulitzer win for their Wall Street... More
Audit Notes: fraud without fraudsters edition
Wells Fargo and JPMorgan shareholders, not executives, held accountable
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM
The Wall Street Journal fronts news that the feds are suing Wells Fargo for a decade of mortgage fraud that... More
Audit Notes: GE and Subprime, WaPo on Recess, Fed Fumes on Housing
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2012 at 08:04 PM
The Center for Public Integrity’s Michael Hudson continues one of the most important series of the last year, on how... More
Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact
ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to... More
Audit Notes: Ignoring Libor, Barron’s, rich kids and TV news
ABC and NBC evening newscasts ignore the huge scandal in its first two weeks
By Ryan Chittum Jul 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple points to Media Matters research that shows ABC's and NBC's nightly newscasts completely ignored the... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
