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Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Michael Lewis, who says he sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Street movement, interviews himself on what he would do if... More
Audit Notes: dethroning DeMarco, the cult of disruption, China trade
The FT reports Obama plans a big housing policy change if re-elected
By Ryan Chittum Oct 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Financial Times's Shahien Nasiripour reports that the Obama administration is quietly telling activists that it will replace Fannie Mae/Freddie... More
Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 05:03 PM
I'm happy to say I was wrong (and Felix was right) in guessing that retail investors would jump into Facebook... More
Audit Notes: Finally, Fraud Charges; Gee Whiz Wired; Freddie
By Ryan Chittum Feb 1, 2012 at 01:30 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports, and as far as I can tell, scoops that the Justice Department is preparing to... More
Audit Notes: Rocket Internet, Gas Taxes, The Price of Health Care
By Ryan Chittum Mar 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM
Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a good story on a German company that makes its living ripping off American websites and taking... More
Bloomberg’s Big Miss in Silicon Valley Hiring Story
An analysis forgets mergers and acquisitions
By Ryan Chittum Jan 31, 2012 at 07:14 PM
Bloomberg News reports on the hiring spree in Silicon Valley, possible evidence of "Web Bubble 2.0." But it makes some... More
Drones and transparency
White House criticized for secrecy, PBS’s NOVA for conflict
By Curtis Brainard Feb 20, 2013 at 03:45 PM
It's no secret that journalists, especially those on the science beat, don't think that President Obama has lived up his... More
How technology redefines norms
Reasonable resistance to the upending of cultural mores is not “technopanic”
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass. The Victorian attitudes... More
Joe Nocera’s big (old) Goldman scoop
NYT’s revealing reporting gets almost no play elsewhere
By Ryan Chittum Mar 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Whoever thought the plight of executives and investors at eToys--one of the signal flops of the high tech bubble era--would... 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
Q&A: NewYorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson
On the site’s new science and technology section and blog
By Curtis Brainard Apr 4, 2013 at 04:45 PM
On Tuesday, The New Yorker launched a science and technology page on its website, along with a companion blog called... More
The press sours a bit on Apple
The company’s control of its narrative is loosened by leaks
By Ryan Chittum Sep 13, 2012 at 06:26 PM
One of my favorite sports as a critic is watching how the press liveblogs the periodic gadget announcements that Apple... More
The WSJ on the fall of Nokia
The company that foresaw an iPhone-like device in 2000 is left in the dust
By Ryan Chittum Jul 20, 2012 at 07:26 PM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story on the fall of Finnish cellphone giant Nokia—the kind of deeply... 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 New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
