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Niall Ferguson
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle
A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown’s mag
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by... 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: Bloomberg snoops, Alan Abelson, Niall in denial
And the New York Post scoops
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The New York Post reports that Goldman Sachs complained to Bloomberg that its reporters were spying on it via the... More
Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson
A document dump raises questions about tax strategies
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 01:55 AM
Gawker's John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them... More
Audit Notes: GOP gold bugs, too big to fail, Niall Ferguson
The myth of hard money
By Ryan Chittum Aug 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Republicans have put the gold standard (or at least a commission to study the idea) back in their party's... More
Audit Notes: Inflation Inflation, FT on Frannie, Deep Downturns
By Ryan Chittum Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM
Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong catch Niall Ferguson in a whopper on inflation. Ferguson: And the reason the CPI is... 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.
