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Annals of Government Toothlessness, HAMP edition
ProPublica with a fantastic piece
By Felix Salmon Oct 5, 2011 at 11:11 AM
ProPublica’s Paul Kiel has a fantastic story about the way in which the government has proved utterly toothless with... More
Audit Notes: Bain’s LBOs, Star Tribune, Wolff on JRC
ProPublica reports that the “turnaround artist” narrative is off
By Ryan Chittum Sep 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger looks at Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, calling into question the narrative that it was largely about... More
Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact
ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to... More
Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego
ProPublica documents JPMorgan Chase’s extensive ties to a docile Senate Banking Committee
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM
ProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill... More
Audit Notes: NYT scoop, Freddie’s anti-stimulus, Wired on making stuff
Riches for the family of a top Chinese official
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times David Barboza gets a huge scoop on corruption in China, reporting that the family of the... More
Audit Notes: Politico’s Goldman PR, ProPublica Vindicated, Mark to Myth
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2011 at 06:06 PM
The Huffington Post's Peter S. Goodman points to a bizarre report in Politico this morning: Much was made of a... 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: Pulitzer Edition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2011 at 08:30 PM
The financial crisis is now more than three years old, but up to now there had been no Pulitzer Prize... 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
Financial crisis bodies are still surfacing
Jesse Eisinger on a Morgan Stanley CDO scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
If you think, going on six years after the onset of the financial crisis, that we've learned about all we're... More
How to use social media in investigations
ProPublica explains at Social Media Weekend
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Investigative reporting used to be a secretive business--think Woodward and Bernstein meeting anonymous sources in parking garages. But according to... More
More on Second Liens
By Felix Salmon Mar 22, 2011 at 02:46 PM
I had a long conversation with Jesse Eisinger on the subject of second liens and the proposed mortgage settlement... More
ProPublica and Fortune’s Unhelpful Post on GE’s Taxes
Taking the company’s word for it to rebut The New York Times
By Ryan Chittum Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Fortune's Allan Sloan and ProPublica's Jeff Gerth asserted a couple of days ago that The New York Times got it... More
ProPublica and NYT Are Confusing On Second Liens (UPDATED)
By Felix Salmon Mar 17, 2011 at 05:11 PM
Jesse Eisinger has a conspiracy theory about the way that second liens are treated in the proposed mortgage settlement: The... More
ProPublica and How to Support Investigative Journalism
By Felix Salmon Apr 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Paul Steiger is rightly proud of his latest Pulitzer -- the second for ProPublica in as many years. He's right,... More
ProPublica and NPR on Freddie Mac’s Conflicts
By Ryan Chittum Jan 30, 2012 at 04:34 PM
Why haven't Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae been much more aggressive about refinancing the mortgages they hold? That's a $50... More
ProPublica Catches Ally Financial Making It Up
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2011 at 08:33 PM
ProPublica has a terrific report today nailing Ally Financial (the former GMAC) for faking mortgage documents in order to foreclose... More
ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM
I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... More
ProPublica is fundraising with journo tees
The investigative news outlet is selling shirts through Selfless Tee this week
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 22, 2012 at 05:28 PM
Love journalism enough to wear it? ProPublica is currently running a fundraising campaign on Selfless Tee, a San Francisco-based company... More
ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment
The show’s third season will feature a character based on A.C. Thompson
By Sara Morrison Sep 19, 2012 at 03:38 PM
A.C. Thompson's reporting on transgressions by the New Orleans police force in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to an... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
