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Revolving Door
An FCC Commissioner’s Brazen Dash Through the Revolving Door
Buried by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 01:33 PM
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News show some terrible news judgment today, burying news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell... More
As the Revolving Door Turns
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2011 at 02:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the head of the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens, will become CEO... More
Audit Notes: Don’t Buy Our Bonds!, Rail FAIL, Orszag to Citigroup
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2010 at 08:19 PM
New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch went off the reservation in a speech today, Bloomberg reports. First, he criticizes state... More
Audit Notes: Fallows on Orszag, The Atlantic in the Black, Google
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Obama cabinet official Peter Orszag took a spin through the revolving door and ended up in a million-dollar sinecure at... More
Audit Notes: high-frequency trading, Ann Arbor news, SEC access
A whistleblower sparks a growing investigation, reports the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Sep 20, 2012 at 02:25 AM
The Wall Street Journal has a good page-one story and scoop on a high-frequency trader turned whistleblower whose complaint has... 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: Occupy Maybelline, Abramoff on the Revolving Door, News Corp. (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2011 at 07:56 PM
The Occupy Wall Street movement is already having its dissent commodified. As BagNews shows, this Maybelline commercial shows its models... More
Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM
Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More
Audit Notes: Weil embarrasses DOJ, Business Insider, revolving door
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil makes an amazing catch on the latest Ernst & Young wrist slap from the Justice Department, this... More
Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS
The agency hamstrings a program designed to bring in tips on tax evasion
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is... More
Charlie Rose’s Weak Q&A With the SEC’s Khuzami
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2012 at 01:13 PM
Audit contributing editor Felix Salmon, writing this morning about Channel 4 reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy's tough questioning of Larry Summers, asked,... More
Excellent Reporting on the Revolving Door By American Banker
Paper’s FOIA request shows a former FHA commish palling around with his future employer
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 01:46 PM
American Banker has a terrific story on the revolving door, digging into the records of former Federal Housing Authority commissioner... More
Revolving door spins for Schapiro and Breuer
Former SEC and DOJ officials cash in
By Ryan Chittum Apr 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
So you make big bucks as partner at a top law firm at the "nexus of Washington and Wall Street."... More
The Crystal Ball For Chris Dodd Revisited
A trip through the revolving door, but not to Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2011 at 06:56 PM
Newly retired Democratic Senator Chris Dodd has now announced what he'll be doing for a post-Senate career: lobbying for Hollywood.... More
The Regulators on the Bus
A Times story shows the resources gap between regulators and Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM
We've wondered often just what it is that makes our financial regulators so toothless in the wake of the widespread... More
The SEC, Tangled Up in Madoff
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2011 at 02:01 PM
How about that Irving Picard? The lawyer trying to recover cash for Bernie Madoff's victims had the nerve to sue... 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.
