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200 Years of Citi
An alternate history
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More
LAT Watchdogs Wall Street on the GM IPO
The banks just can’t help themselves, and if shares soar, political problems await.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The L.A. Times takes a smart tack on the General Motors IPO story, reporting that it shows how Wall Street... More
Audit Notes: Davies on Murdoch, Banks Eye the Poor for Fees, TARP ROI
By Ryan Chittum Apr 26, 2012 at 08:53 PM
Nick Davies writes in The Guardian that, after a second day of questioning under oath, "Rupert Murdoch is in trouble...... More
Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity
WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven’t pulled away from everyone else
By Ryan Chittum Oct 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Republic's Timothy Noah and The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien demolish a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kevin "Dow 36,000"... More
Audit Notes: Stocks Fed, Stadium Economics, Dumb-Question Headlines
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2011 at 06:07 PM
Gretchen Morgenson had an interesting quote in her column yesterday riffing off Bloomberg's investigation into $1.2 trillion of Fed bailouts:... More
Audit Notes: The Federal Reserve’s Trillion-Dollar Bailout Document Dump
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2010 at 08:42 PM
The Federal Reserve today released a trove of information, much of which was sought by Bloomberg's Mark Pittman lawsuit, on... More
Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance
GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Ezra Klein, anticipating a lot of Republicans disingenuously blaming Obama for the national debt, points to a Center on Budget... More
Bloomberg Ferrets Out New Details on the Fed’s Bailouts
By Ryan Chittum May 26, 2011 at 01:43 PM
There were so many bailouts going on in 2008 that Congress apparently forgot about some of them. Bloomberg gets a... More
Bloomberg Leads on the Fed (Again)
The consequences of the central bank’s secrecy
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2011 at 03:12 PM
Bloomberg is still, thank God, hammering away at the gargantuan bank bailouts of 2008-2009. Most of those were hidden from... More
Bloomberg News on the Fed’s Secret Mega-TARP
By Ryan Chittum Aug 22, 2011 at 05:55 PM
Back when our late pal Mark Pittman and Bloomberg sued the Federal Reserve to force it to disclose secret details... More
Fannie’s Regulator Isn’t Playing Obama Team Ball
Suing the banks rather than protecting them
By Ryan Chittum Sep 2, 2011 at 02:22 PM
The New York Times scoop that Fannie and Freddie's regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is suing the big banks... More
Inured to “Trillions”
Take a step back on the Federal Reserve bailout story
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2010 at 07:19 PM
The Federal Reserve is forced by Congress to reveal who it secretly bailed out with trillions of dollars in loans.... More
Market Mess
Troubles pile up for the financial system and the economy
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 08:18 PM
What happened in the markets today? Good luck figuring that out (you can't, really). Let's just say it's some combination... More
SIGTARP Barofsky Skewers Treasury’s TARP Defense
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Today's must-read comes from Neil Barofsky, the TARP's special inspector general, in a New York Times op-ed. He guts the... More
Taibbi on a Fed Bailout the Business Press Buried
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2011 at 02:11 PM
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone zeroes in on an interesting detail from the Federal Reserve's bailouts: The Fed lent big... More
The Cyprus bailout fiasco
Get ready for a week (if we’re lucky) of euro crisis news
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The major news over the weekend was the continuing incompetence of Europe's policymakers, who seem determined to make the euro... More
The Second-Day Fed Bailouts Coverage
From good to okay to non-existent
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2010 at 07:31 PM
And just like that, the Federal Reserve bailout story disappears from the pages of The Wall Street Journal. There's not... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
