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WSJ on the Return of the Online Pet Food Store
By Ryan Chittum Mar 5, 2012 at 05:41 PM
I like this smart Wall Street Journal piece on the new economics of the Web as told through the effort... More
An ugly bit of blame-the-borrowers
Predatory lending is real, contra RealClearMarkets, and it particularly targets minorities
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets and Forbes really didn't like my take last week on that awful Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover. Here's... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Explains Ireland, Eisinger, Tragedy of the Technocrats
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 04:13 PM
Every once in a while, we get one of those page-one stories in The Wall Street Journal that remind you... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg eyes CMBS, newspaper optimism, Weil on bank books
Signs of froth return to commercial real estate lending
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News is good to keep an eye on the securitization market for early signs of froth. It reports that... More
Audit Notes: Derailed; Tax Know-Nothings, Press Bubble, Etc.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2010 at 04:40 PM
John Collins Rudolf writes at The New York Times's Green blog about the effect Tuesday's GOP landslide will have on... More
Audit Notes: Echoes of the 1930s, gilded bubble, access journalism
As Greece crumbles, extremism and violence rises
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 01:55 AM
On the echoes of the 1930s tip, the University of Athens's Aristides Hatzis writes in the Financial Times: Despite the... 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: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten
The magazine’s picks for future Apple and Microsoft CEOs go awry immediately
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Fortune peered into its crystal ball for the October 29 issue and came up with four "best bets" on who's... More
Audit Notes: Reinflating the bubble, Nader in the WSJ
The LA Times reports on a new rush in Southern California
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a good and disturbing look at how the LA housing market is already showing signs... More
Audit Notes: Risky Business, Two Economies, Google and Monopoly
By Ryan Chittum Dec 13, 2010 at 08:17 PM
The New York Times is good to keep an eye on signs of a return of risky lending. Today it... More
Better to Be Skeptical Than Sanguine About Soaring Tech Valuations (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Mar 24, 2011 at 05:42 PM
Henry Blodget's Business Insider runs a column today from a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist arguing that there's no new... More
IPOs for the masses
A global business leader wants IPOs for his countrymen, in Quartz
By Ryan Chittum Mar 26, 2013 at 06:50 AM
When Quartz launched, it said that its "mission is to serve today's new class of global business leaders" who "have... More
The China Bubble
WSJ, Reuters, and Bloomberg reports show why a reckoning is likely
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM
We've all heard about the crisis in Europe, how it's weighing on the economy, and how a collapse there could... More
The Facebook frenzy
Retail investors prepare to jump on a richly valued IPO
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one Facebook IPO story does a good job of capturing some uncomfortable parallels to the dot.com... More
The Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, Huffington Post Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Still think there's not a Web 2.0 bubble going on? The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that Twitter is now... More
WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’
A mess of a story on Facebook
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a "give-it-away-free approach" that has hurt share... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
