“Uncertainty” Trotted Out in the Journal

Business code for “we may not get our way”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 14, 2010 at 11:12 AM

If there's one thing our titans of industry can't stand, it's uncertainty. We've seen that excuse trotted out over and... More

“Don’t Call it a Paywall”

A panel discussion with NYT’s Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Janet Robinson

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM

On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson... More

SmartMoney Makes a Hash of the Downgrade

Says borrowers face higher rates, despite sinking Treasury yields

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2011 at 06:17 PM

Speaking of the Journal overhyping the S&P downgrade of U.S. Treasurys, its sister magazine SmartMoney has a doozy of a... More

The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal

The paper claims the scalp of a Journal publisher and points to deeper problems

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:19 PM

Read this Wall Street Journal story from this morning on the resignation of its European edition's publisher. What the Journal... More

The Journal Hypes the Downgrade

A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2011 at 02:44 PM

That Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. from AAA to AA+ is a big story no doubt. But The Wall... More

The Wall Street Journal and the Waffle House

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2011 at 08:17 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a terrific ahed today on the Waffle House and how the company goes all out... More

The Wall Street Journal Plays Stenographer to Chris Christie

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2011 at 01:43 PM

Is this a news story in The Wall Street Journal or a press release from the Office of the Governor... More

The Wall Street Journal Pooh-Poohs Bank Transfer Day

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2011 at 07:22 PM

This Wall Street Journal story on Bank Transfer Day, the push to get people to move their money out of... More

The Wall Street Journal: Murdochification Watch

The paper runs a thinly sourced, and quickly denied, scoop on non-News Corp. bribes

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2011 at 10:06 PM

Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, unsurprisingly, hasn't done a whole lot of digging on the News Corp. hacking scandal. Or... More

Wall Street Journal Europe Sourcing Was Unusual

And the CEO of the firm involved is a former Journal executive

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:35 PM

We now know, thanks to reporting in the both The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal itself, that Andrew Langloff,... More

WSJ Backs Up The Guardian on European Scandal

Its reporting disputes its parent company’s denials

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Last night, Dow Jones slammed The Guardian's report on wrongdoing at The Wall Street Journal Europe, calling it "replete with... More

WSJ Column Raises Ethics Issues

By Felix Salmon   Apr 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM

Last week, Ira Stoll took issue with Dennis Berman's column on SharesPost and SecondMarket, on the grounds that Berman lied... More

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

WSJ Gives Minimum Info on Front Group

An astroturf group gets a hit on the minimum wage

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM

Here's how The Wall Street Journal framed its report yesterday on several states raising the minimum wage next year: Small... More

WSJ Goes Page One With Another Gold “Record”

But in real terms the price is more than a third below its peak three decades ago

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 03:09 AM

It's time for another round of hyped and misleading "gold hits a record" stories. Gold closed at $1,500 for the... More

WSJ Keeps an Eye on Bank Fees

Annual fees for debit cards could be next

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2011 at 01:48 PM

The Wall Street Journal does a good job today on how banks are plotting new fees to get around the... More

WSJ Notes That Commodities Go Down, Too

By Ryan Chittum   May 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM

The business press is much more sensitive to signs of price increases than it is to signs of price decreases.... More

WSJ on Harry Markopolos’ Whistleblowing Shell Companies

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting scoop this morning on a lawsuit accusing banks of gouging pensioners and... More