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BW Oversells Its Story on Americans and Dirty Jobs
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2011 at 08:20 PM
This Bloomberg BusinessWork cover story from last week on "Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs" takes an uneven look at... 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
LAT on the U.S. As Low-Wage Offshoring Destination
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2011 at 07:54 PM
Where does Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory... More
NYT on How Unions Are Learning From Occupy Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2011 at 01:41 PM
The New York Times reports on how the American labor movement, whose membership and power have crumbled over the last... More
The Morning Call Revisits Amazon’s Work Conditions
Allentown workers baked in the summer, froze in the winter
By Ryan Chittum Nov 11, 2011 at 03:48 PM
Remember that Morning Call investigation a couple of months ago into an Amazon sweatshop outside Allentown, Pennsylvania? The paper showed... More
The Morning Call’s Amazon Sweatshop Probe
An excellent investigation exposes poor conditions at a big Pennsylvania warehouse
By Ryan Chittum Sep 23, 2011 at 07:52 PM
What's going on with labor in Pennsylvania? It was just last month that foreign students working at Hershey's for the... More
The Seattle Times Takes On Hometown Amazon
A tough series on the dark side of the booming local company
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Here in Seattle, Amazon is growing like crazy, adding thousands of jobs and building several skyscrapers just off downtown, something... More
WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More
WSJ Gives Minimum Info on Front Group
An astroturf group gets a hit on the minimum wage
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Here's how The Wall Street Journal framed its report yesterday on several states raising the minimum wage next year: Small... More
WSJ Slips Up on a Union Story
And its misses tilt toward the anti-labor side
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2011 at 09:45 PM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one story yesteday on the union battle in Wisconsin erred on a few points, all of... More
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’
The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's no shortage of uncritical reporting on the notion that employers, and particularly manufacturers, can't find enough qualified workers even... More
A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Jun 3, 2011 at 01:06 PM
The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its... More
A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press
Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago
By Ryan Chittum Apr 5, 2011 at 02:11 PM
The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just... More
Amazon’s German labor fiasco
A subcontractor employed neo-Nazi guards to patrol immigrant workers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The story of Amazon's treatment of workers took a sensational turn last week when German public television revealed that temporary... More
AOL Settled with Unpaid “Volunteers” for $15 Million
Why the HuffPost bloggers won’t be so lucky, and why that matters
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 10, 2011 at 06:00 PM
When AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million this week, we at CJR wondered, among other things, whether the... More
Audit Notes: Banker’s Good FHA Work, FBI’s Small Fry, Michael Barone
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2011 at 08:20 PM
The American Banker's Jeff Horwitz has another excellent report on the Federal Housing Administration and its former commissioner David Stevens,... More
Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams
Everyone but the magazine fact checks Niall Ferguson
By Ryan Chittum Aug 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Paul Krugman asks: We know what Ferguson is going to do: he’s going to brazen it out, actually boasting about... More
Audit Notes: Amazon turns on the A/C, Fairfax’s taxes, Ponzify
By Ryan Chittum Jun 6, 2012 at 11:53 PM
The Morning Call's Spencer Soper follows up on his Amazon sweatshop investigation, and reports that the company has since spent... More
Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition
Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 07:57 PM
The New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what... More
Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor
Replacing copyright with something called “creditright”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This may seem like a Fake Jeff Jarvis post, but it's real-life Jeff Jarvis: Creators don’t need protection from copying.... 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 (19)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
