Tags
McDonald's
A Big Mac miss by The Huffington Post
Poor reporting on a “study” by a Kansas undergrad
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Huffington Post reports that McDonald's could double its workers wages by raising the price of a Big Mac by... More
A McDonald’s own-goal on wages
Accidentally exposing the fallacy of its own personal-finance advice to workers
By Ryan Chittum Jul 16, 2013 at 11:15 AM
In her book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, Helaine Olen writes about how the... More
Big Mac numbers too good to check—or to correct
Fixes and non-fixes following a Huffington Post story
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Huffington Post has all but retracted the story on Big Macs and wages that I criticized here (as did... More
Bloomberg on the impacts of inequality
One longtime McDonald’s worker’s story says a lot about the economy
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg has an excellent story on low-wage work and inequality, comparing a longtime McDonald's worker to the company's CEO, who... More
McDonald’s through management’s eyes, in the WSJ
Rude employees who, oh by the way, make poverty wages
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that internal McDonald's documents say that the fast food chain's customer service is "broken"—that it... 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”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
