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Major papers’ longform meltdown
Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jan 17, 2013 at 03:11 PM
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider... More
“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”
East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement
By Joel Meares Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More
L.A. Times Examines Trump’s Gold-Plated Corporate Welfare
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2011 at 02:49 PM
How do you handle covering a candidacy that's primarily a publicity stunt by a crazed ego and presshound—one with approximately... More
L.A. Times Quantifies the Dominance of the Finance Lobby
No “obtained” records here or even FOIAs; this info was in plain sight
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2010 at 06:57 AM
The Los Angeles Times drops some good reporting this morning on regulation and the financial lobby, aggregating publicly available records... 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
LAT On Why Solyndra Dazzled the Private and Public Sectors
By Ryan Chittum Sep 26, 2011 at 06:23 PM
The Los Angeles Times has a really good look at the failure of Solyndra, the solar-power company that went bankrupt... More
LAT Watchdogs Wall Street on the GM IPO
The banks just can’t help themselves, and if shares soar, political problems await.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The L.A. Times takes a smart tack on the General Motors IPO story, reporting that it shows how Wall Street... More
A Medicare Miss at the LA Times
Some fact-checking, please
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 18, 2011 at 02:33 PM
Medicare is a bear to write about. It’s tough for beneficiaries to understand, and unclear news stories only serve to... More
Amazon’s California Tax Battle
Fighting to delay the end of its unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2011 at 02:37 PM
While billionaire Jeff Bezos is off crashing spaceships (or wannabe spaceships, anyway) in the West Texas desert, his company's unfair... More
Amazon’s California tax squeeze
A WSJ follow story waters down an LAT scoop from two weeks ago
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Amazon's long run of not paying collecting state and local sales taxes is coming to an end as legislatures finally... More
Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2011 at 07:58 PM
Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More
Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits
The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday.... More
Audit Notes: California’s Enron echoes, Sox toolbox, the Dow’s decade
LAT on allegations that JPMorgan manipulated markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
— Michael Hiltzik had a good column two weeks ago on allegations that JPMorgan Chase manipulated California energy markets: The... More
Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2012 at 08:37 PM
Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced... More
Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More
Audit Notes: Reinflating the bubble, Nader in the WSJ
The LA Times reports on a new rush in Southern California
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a good and disturbing look at how the LA housing market is already showing signs... 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
Commercialization of the academy: diet supplements edition
The LAT’s Hiltzik on professors who hawk Herbalife
By Ryan Chittum Feb 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Herbalife story is a business-press feast. You've got warring billionaires, the words "Ponzi scheme" being thrown around, a televised... More
Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any
Coverage of Ann Romney’s RNC speech said she connected with women, but no female voices in the stories verified the claim
By Jennifer Vanasco Aug 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Immediately after Ann Romney’s speech... More
Factchecking the ‘gifts’ theory of politics
LAT, NYT break news on Mitt Romney’s remarks—and also offer a skeptical look
By Greg Marx Nov 15, 2012 at 03:10 PM
The big electoral politics story of the day (well, ok, of late Wednesday) is the news that Mitt Romney, on... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
