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WSJ Fronts Amazon’s Tax Avoidance Strategy
Color-coded maps tell employees which states are safe, bad, and neutral
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2011 at 06:38 PM
It's nice to see The Wall Street Journal take a page-one look at Amazon's aggressive tax avoidance, something I've written... More
A picture is worth a thousand memes
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker responds to Farhad Manjoo
By Matt Wuerker Apr 23, 2012 at 03:17 PM
Farhad Manjoo thinks political cartoons are stale, stupid, and unfunny—or so he argued in Slate last week, saying that, instead... More
Apples and oranges on Google and publishers
Print performance is bad enough without putting a thumb on the scale
By Ryan Chittum Nov 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Slate tells us that "Google ad revenue tops entire US print media industry" in the first six months of the... More
Audit Notes: “People Love It,” The New Nocera, NYT Parody Flop
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2011 at 09:05 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column on a panel of top financiers discussing financial reform and too big to... More
Audit Notes: Awful on Bangladesh, the Kochtopus, US day care
Slate’s Matthew Yglesias gets it very wrong on workers and safety standards
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
They were still pulling the hundreds of dead bodies out of the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh when Slate's Matthew... More
Audit Notes: CEO Porn; Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan; Sbarro, Cooked
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2011 at 09:08 PM
Gary Weiss says the tarnishing of Warren Buffett is a useful moment for the press to stand back and quit... More
Audit Notes: Google v. Groupon, BofA Deal, The 99ers
By Ryan Chittum Jan 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Shira Ovide writes that Google, spurned by Groupon despite its stunning $6 billion offer for the... More
Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value
The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death and... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal, Chipotle Not Apple
By Ryan Chittum Feb 13, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Murdoch's hacking scandal deepened this weekend with the arrests of several senior journalists at another News Corporation paper—The Sun— in... More
Audit Notes: Skynet News, Gawker’s High-Low Strategy, Oil Speculators
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2012 at 03:13 AM
Evgeny Morozov has a must-read piece at Slate on the rise of journalism bots, which Forbes now employs to write... More
Beholding thinspiration
Slate’s decision to publish an image of a recovering anorexic is problematic
By Kira Goldenberg May 13, 2013 at 07:08 PM
In the latest post on its Behold photo blog, Slate waded into ongoing debates around "thinspo"--pro-anorexia imagery posted to foster... More
Covering the Republicans’ Crisis Commission Document
Bethany McLean shows why he said-she said reporting doesn’t cut it
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2010 at 03:14 PM
The four Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released their own report Wednesday on the causes of the financial... More
Don’t pick up!
RFK, Jr. talks journalists’ ears off with his vaccine conspiracy theory
By Curtis Brainard Jun 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Check your caller ID. If you're a reporter who has criticized Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for spouting nonsense about vaccines... More
Insider Trading in Congress
A new book puts faces on data suggesting members enrich themselves with nonpublic information
By Ryan Chittum Nov 14, 2011 at 07:35 PM
If I could short Congress, I would right now. Last night's 60 Minutes report, based on the work of conservative... More
Jim Romenesko Leaves Poynter
And the blogosphere cries foul
By Justin Peters Nov 11, 2011 at 02:11 AM
The most frustrating thing about the Jim Romenesko affair is the way that so many people who should know better... More
Leave appearance out of it
Because she isn’t currently a candidate, Obama’s remarks didn’t necessarily hurt Kamala Harris. But if she had been running, a new study says that they would have hurt her
By Jennifer Vanasco Apr 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
I wasn't planning to write about the dust-up after Obama called California's Kamala Harris the country's "best-looking attorney general." After... More
Must-reads of the week
A drone! A drone! My kingdom for a drone!
By The Editors Feb 8, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine
What The Daily can learn from an earlier “digital renaissance”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 4, 2011 at 02:20 PM
CJR has been accused of crankiness for our early critique of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, The Daily. The Poynter... More
Slate Takes on Amazon’s Unfair Advantage
The retailer manipulates nexus law to give customers tax breaks competitors can’t offer
By Ryan Chittum Dec 8, 2010 at 02:01 AM
Slate's Farhad Manjoo wrote last month about how online retailers like Amazon get a huge unfair advantage over their bricks... More
The latest on Slatest
Slate’s news aggregation blog’s revamp goes for quality over quantity
By Sara Morrison Aug 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
There’s a new Slatest in town: the third version of Slatest, Slate's aggregated news blog, launched Monday. Though some Slatest... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
