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Audit Notes: Amazon’s shell company, The Lens, Plain Dealer cuts
Reuters unwinds how the online retail giant avoided taxes via Luxembourg
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Reuters has a nice investigation into Amazon's vigorous tax avoidance, and this time it's not about sales taxes. The wire... More
Audit Notes: Noonan and Morris on the IRS, free Internet, Guardian gains
The Woodward and Bernstein of the bogus Tea Party tax scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jul 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
At this point, the right's Woodward and Bernstein are Peggy Noonan and Dick Morris, and that says about all you... More
Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS
The agency hamstrings a program designed to bring in tips on tax evasion
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is... More
Bloomberg Continues to Hit Corporate Tax Schemes
By Ryan Chittum Jan 5, 2011 at 07:26 PM
Jesse Drucker of Bloomberg has been doing some excellent reporting of the corporate-tax system and how companies are manipulating it... More
Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story
The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street... More
Relax! IRS Rules Are “Lax”
WaPo has good news for anonymous political donors
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2011 at 04:09 PM
Are you a 501(c)(4) group that spent millions of anonymous dollars on attack ads during the midterm elections (or, perhaps,... More
Tax overhaul: big numbers, hidden stories
Multinationals have ways to avoid taxes not available to domestic companies, and momentum is building in both parties to fix a flawed system. A few journalists are taking note.
By David Cay Johnston Jul 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM
How big corporations pay--or don't pay--their taxes isn't a subject that gets a lot of quality explanatory coverage, though... More
The other IRS scandal
Required context for a controversy
By David Cay Johnston May 15, 2013 at 06:52 AM
The burgeoning "scandal" over how the IRS chose for review 75 applicants for tax-exempt status puts on full display an... More
The big IRS stretch
Some reporters are straining to connect the scandal to the White House, without benefit of credible evidence. But others are skeptical
By Mariah Blake Jun 4, 2013 at 02:50 PM
For the last month, Republicans have been trying mightily to paint the IRS's Tea Party targeting scheme as proof... More
The IRS and the Chicago News Cooperative (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Feb 22, 2012 at 03:23 PM
I wrote back in November that the tax man was making it harder for the nonprofit-news movement to flourish or... More
The IRS budget and federal revenues:
Who will connect the dots?
The sequester strikes again
By David Cay Johnston May 9, 2013 at 11:00 AM
We've pointed out before that major news organizations are failing to connect the tax dots--between the sequester-caused cuts to the... More
The IRS scandal unwinds
And Peggy Noonan pushes crazy conspiracy theories in the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The IRS Tea Party "scandal" has taken a couple of body blows in the last week. First, it emerged that... More
The other IRS target: the press
The nonprofit news experience undermines the Tea Party targeting outrage
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Conservatives are howling about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups applying for nonprofit tax exemptions. Well, welcome to our world.... More
True the Coverage
Some of the organizations targeted for scrutiny by the IRS actually deserve scrutiny—a nuance that is getting lost
By Mariah Blake May 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Just about everyone in Washington agrees that the IRS's blanket targeting of Tea Party groups by keying on words in... More
Will the IRS Derail Nonprofit Journalism?
At a crucial moment, the taxman drags his feet on granting tax-exempt status
By Steven Waldman Nov 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM
In an era of newspaper closings and reporter layoffs, there has been one significant bright spot: an explosion of local,... 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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The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
