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WSJ on the Return of the Online Pet Food Store
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2012 at 05:41 PM
I like this smart Wall Street Journal piece on the new economics of the Web as told through the effort... More
Amazon sharecroppers
The Seattle Times on the hometown giant’s uneasy relationship with its merchants
By Ryan Chittum Nov 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times has another good story on Amazon, this time reporting on the hometown giant's lopsided relationship with its... More
Amazon’s California Tax Battle
Fighting to delay the end of its unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2011 at 02:37 PM
While billionaire Jeff Bezos is off crashing spaceships (or wannabe spaceships, anyway) in the West Texas desert, his company's unfair... More
David Cay Johnston’s excellent corporate-welfare column
What a proposed mall project illustrates about subsidizing developers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 5, 2012 at 03:08 PM
Reuters's David Cay Johnston has a great column on corporate welfare that mixes reporting and analysis to show why subsidies... More
McDonald’s through management’s eyes, in the WSJ
Rude employees who, oh by the way, make poverty wages
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that internal McDonald's documents say that the fast food chain's customer service is "broken"—that it... 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?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.



