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A Big Corporate Welfare Story Gets Short Shrift
Reuters’s Johnston and Times Union spotlight news almost everyone else ignores
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Here's a story that's calling out for more attention and isn't getting it. Reuters's David Cay Johnston wrote last week... More
A Good Social Security Story—At Last
Reuters shows it can be done
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More
A Weak Case for the Middle Class Embracing Globalization
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2011 at 02:47 PM
Reuters’s David Rohde writes about Bowling Green, Kentucky, and how it’s doing well by embracing globalization. But it’s a pretty... More
A welcome spotlight on trade deals
Reuters’s Johnston goes to Korea to look at the prospects of a new agreement
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In March, the Obama administration implemented a trade agreement with South Korea that it promised, implausibly, would create tens of... More
Amazon takes a tax hit, finally
Reuters reports early signs that collecting sales taxes affected the company’s sales
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters reports that Amazon's fourth quarter results may take a hit from new laws that force it to collect sales... More
AP turns to Twitter and restaurant receipts
Unconventional revenue strategies in the wake of new year’s member losses
By Sara Morrison Jan 11, 2013 at 07:54 PM
The AP rolled out two unconventional money-generating strategies this week: It sold advertising in its Twitter feed and cut a... More
Appending Larry
Google’s “premature release” spins off another viral meme — and an ethical question
By Sara Morrison Oct 26, 2012 at 02:50 PM
A recent Reuters article on Google's prematurely released earnings report noted that a Twitter parody account was created to mock... More
Audit Notes: 1966 Wages, Fracking’s Chickens and Eggs, Whistleblowers
By Ryan Chittum Mar 16, 2012 at 02:35 AM
David Cay Johnston looks at the latest income-distribution data from Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, and notes that in this... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Scoop, SAC’s Golf Guy, Two Old Guys Flailing
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop out this evening, reporting that the federal government is winding up a... More
Audit Notes: Baffled Wall Street Historians, Too Much Demand, Deficits to Shrink
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2011 at 09:28 PM
Here's your Quote of the Day, from The New York Times's story on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report. Wall... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg Empire Edition
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2011 at 06:46 PM
Reuters's Jack Shafer writes that Bloomberg BusinessWeek has become the best magazine in the country, his "primary source of long-form,... More
Audit notes: Chesapeake woes, the Untaxable, Reuters on HSBC
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2012 at 07:34 PM
The hits keep coming at Chesapeake Energy. Today, it's The Wall Street Journal's turn. It reports on page one that... More
Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their... More
Audit Notes: FCIC Report, Reuters Talking Points, WSJ Sues
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2011 at 08:07 PM
The New York Times gets hold of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report first and it seems somewhat promising. Here's... More
Audit Notes: Inequality in NYC, Reuters on Dumb Money, Ireland
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2010 at 06:05 PM
Yves Smith, in a "Banana Republic Watch," points to a report (PDF) from the Fiscal Policy Institute that finds inequality... More
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace
Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM
CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More
Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More
Audit Notes: Lehman’s Green Monster, Sands Storm, Amazon Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 07:55 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper Richard and Bob Ivry circle back to the Fenway deal Lehman Brothers made with Hudson Castle that... More
Audit Notes: Minimum Wage and the Recession, Facebook’s Numbers, Most Powerless
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2012 at 06:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal runs an editorial today criticizing Mitt Romney for his support for increasing the minimum wage and... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Lobbyists, Reuters on Chesapeake, Shadow Space (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2012 at 01:40 AM
Top News Corporation officials talked about enlisting the top Wall Street Journal Europe editor to lobby politicians for Murdoch's multibillionaire... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
