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Predatory Lending
200 Years of Citi
An alternate history
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More
An ugly bit of blame-the-borrowers
Predatory lending is real, contra RealClearMarkets, and it particularly targets minorities
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets and Forbes really didn't like my take last week on that awful Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover. Here's... More
Kristof Finds a Banker With Regrets
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2011 at 10:37 AM
I've praised Bloomberg News a couple of times this week for digging up years-old muck on the financial crisis, so... More
Reuters On the “Payment Protection” Scam
Plus, an American Banker columnist’s predatory-lending past
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2011 at 01:35 PM
Reuters puts the spotlight on the scam that is the multi-billion-dollar credit-card insurance industry, which promises to cover payments if... More
The Overdraft Racket Continues
But reports differ on how many consumers have opted in to the fees
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Back when the Federal Reserve adopted rules forcing banks to make customers opt in to overdraft "protection," it looked like... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
