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Another A1 Times-Picayune press release
This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More
Audit Notes: Google’s stonewalling, Moody’s spin clinic, USDA mortgages
An NYT story on how the company tried to stymie investigators of its Street View program
By Ryan Chittum May 30, 2012 at 09:48 PM
This New York Times story is a few days old, but worth flagging. The paper reports on Google's roguish reaction... More
Audit Notes: WSJ and labor, Tumblr-speak, not the London whale
Getting it right on a nursing-home worker shortage
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2013 at 08:30 AM
I got on the Journal last week for completely missing labor's point of view in a story on cranky McDonald's... More
Benjamin Wey and the Power of PR
By Felix Salmon Nov 23, 2010 at 12:33 AM
In September, one Benjamin Wey, calling himself "Chinese American Financial Expert Foremost Expert On Chinese Business in U.S.," put out... More
Bloomberg’s Thin “Made in the USA” Story
Marketers run amok on a luxury manufacturing renaissance
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM
This Bloomberg News story on luxury brands waving the red, white, and blue leaves much to be desired. First, it's... More
Calling Out a Source that Lied
The Memphis Commercial Appeal holds Schnucks accountable
By Craig Silverman Sep 9, 2011 at 01:19 PM
As far as official denials go, it was clear and emphatic. Lori Willis, communications director of the Schnucks grocery chain,... More
Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules
An NYT story shows the WSJ parroting bogus Wall Street spin
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein makes a great catch this morning, noting that The Wall Street Journal and New York Times... More
GE Flubs a Pushback Against The New York Times
The company can’t—or won’t—get its story straight on taxes
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2011 at 11:24 AM
General Electric went into full public-relations pushback mode after The New York Times's damaging story Friday on how it avoids... More
Goldman’s WSJ Score
By Ryan Chittum Jun 6, 2011 at 02:49 PM
Goldman Sachs displays some savvy PR in getting The Wall Street Journal to go big with a story about it... More
Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2012 at 02:06 PM
It's tempting to get all savvy and snarky about Greg Smith's op-ed in The New York Times this morning on... More
Leakapalooza on the Hill
Public relations bends this morning’s banking committee previews
By Dean Starkman Nov 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Bank of America previewed and helped to soften its executives' planned apology before Congress today by letting the Times... More
Microsoft’s live-action press release
Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet
By Ryan Chittum Jun 19, 2012 at 08:00 AM
Yesterday, Microsoft got a bunch of tech journalists to go to Hollywood for what it promised would be a major... More
Spinning the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision
The press rides a PR tsunami on Obamacare
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 5, 2012 at 02:42 PM
In the days before and after the Supreme Court’s decision, spin doctors were hard at work peddling their experts, positions,... More
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop
A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times posts a flacktacular Business Day piece on a new hedge fund named Falcon Edge. This new... More
The Times’s Fluffy Coverage of the State of the Union
A poor show that amplifies Obama’s public-relations spiel
By Ryan Chittum Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Did The New York Times really need to lead its page one with a two-column, three-line headline about a pedestrian... More
The WSJ bakes a bogus trend
And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now... 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 completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
