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American Banker Shows DOJ Sat On a Bank-Kickback Scandal
HUD says big banks got $6 billion, but the attorney general does nothing
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2011 at 02:52 PM
American Banker has really been doing some superb stuff lately. Jeff Horwitz has a big scoop in today's paper, reporting... More
New York’s Obama WH Profile Juicy and Lite
Heilemann on the Obama redux
By Joel Meares Jan 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM
John Heilemann has the cover of New York this week—out today with a picture of the president on the front,... More
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
NYT Is Superb On General Electric’s Tax Avoidance
Plus, David Kocieniewski continues his Charlie Rangel exposés
By Ryan Chittum Mar 25, 2011 at 02:14 PM
(UPDATE: See my follow-up post on GE's poor PR response to the Times's story) The New York Times unloads a... More
The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED)
Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's hard to read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece on campaign fundraising without thinking about how embarrassing and corrupting it... More
A Note on the State of the Union
Let’s go beyond the theater
By Joel Meares Jan 25, 2011 at 06:22 PM
If you hadn’t already dismissed the State of the Union address as a kind of political Oscars—a room full of... More
Adrift in a sea of (no) coverage
For two years, little in the news about battle over National Ocean Policy
By Curtis Brainard Jun 15, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Last October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar called on the press to pay more attention to the Obama administration’s... More
Ask Obama This: What about housing?
What went wrong with the administration’s mortgage policies
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?
We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Audit Notes: Criminal Query, Ritholtz on McKinsey; Obama’s Jobs Panel
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2011 at 07:47 PM
— The Financial Times reports that the SEC is investigating whether Las Vegas Sands bribed foreign officials. The headline: Sands... More
Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM
Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More
Audit Notes: Hypocrisy on Warren, Just… Why?, Congress’ Net Worth Soars
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Former Timesman Peter S. Goodman is out of the gates fast over at The Huffington Post. He points out the... More
Audit Notes: ProPub vs. BofA, Wall Street in the White House, Short-Armed
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2010 at 08:02 PM
I love to see the press just flat-out say somebody's full of it. ProPublica's Karen Weise does that today, calling... More
Audit Notes: The 14th Century, Gilded China, The Second Stimulus
By Ryan Chittum Sep 9, 2011 at 08:45 PM
Treasury bonds yields hit another low today, dropping to 1.917 percent for ten-year bonds. You might even say markets are... More
Audit Notes: TP Bubble, No More “Fat Cats,” Big Long Now
By Ryan Chittum Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 AM
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at one growing American industry the Internet and the Chinese can't wipe out:... More
Brain mapping
NYT raises questions about federal project, science press provides answers
By Curtis Brainard Feb 28, 2013 at 03:00 PM
On February 17, The New York Times touched off an anxious debate in the neuroscience community with a front-page article... More
Carney’s conspiracy theory
White House Press Secretary sees GOP operatives in good journalism
By Curtis Brainard Dec 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney blamed GOP operatives for revealing that Susan Rice, President Obama’s presumed favorite... More
Climate roller coaster back on track
With Obama talking global warming, media see ups and downs
By Curtis Brainard Nov 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
At his first post-election press conference on Wednesday, President Obama talked about his current position on climate change in greater... More
Coming clean on food safety
The Obama administration’s lack of transparency makes a difficult beat that much harder
By Helena Bottemiller Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Editors’ Note: Bottemiller’s bio should have mentioned that her employer, Food Safety News, is published by the law firm Marler... More
Confused NYT Coverage of Obama Health Care Law’s Prospects
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2011 at 04:59 PM
The New York Times can't make up its mind on what a Supreme Court ruling against Obama health care plan's... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
