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conflicts of interest
AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger
Politico and the Washington Post follow the money
By Ryan Chittum Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM
It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More
Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM
This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More
Audit Notes: Columbia navel-gazing edition
A tech site takes down Michael Wolff’s thoughts on Twitter
By Ryan Chittum Mar 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's always fun to see a Michael Wolff trolling get demolished. This one's at the hands of PandoDaily's Hamish McKenzie.... More
Carney’s conspiracy theory
White House Press Secretary sees GOP operatives in good journalism
By Curtis Brainard Dec 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney blamed GOP operatives for revealing that Susan Rice, President Obama’s presumed favorite... More
CBS goofs up the green beat
Network fails to disclose M. Sanjayan’s affiliation and ties to source
By Curtis Brainard Aug 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Only two months after hiring him, CBS News has already botched a report from its new science and environment contributor,... More
Digging for dark money
Guardian, CPI expose secretive climate-denial funding network
By Curtis Brainard Feb 19, 2013 at 03:20 PM
Just over a year ago, Peter Gleick, a scientist and climate-change activist, obtained a cache of internal documents from The... More
ESPN Obscures Its Own Role in the Conference Realignment Mess
The network’s $300 million deal with Texas, at the heart of the news, goes almost unmentioned
By Ryan Chittum Sep 22, 2011 at 06:34 PM
If you cover college sports for ESPN, you've got a real problem right now. The biggest story these days is... More
Junkets masquerading as prizes
To avoid conflicts of interest, read the fine print
By Curtis Brainard Oct 25, 2012 at 05:15 PM
With dwindling support for travel in most newsrooms, journalists may be tempted to apply for one of the many prizes... More
Networks lose two veteran science reporters
ABC News and NBC News say they will replace Potter and Bazell
By Peter Sterne Apr 8, 2013 at 01:30 PM
Last month witnessed the retirement of two longtime science correspondents for network news, Ned Potter of ABC and Robert Bazell... More
Reuters gets a scalp
Its fantastic reporting takes down Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon
By Ryan Chittum Jan 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters had already gotten results for its outstanding investigation into Chesapeake Energy and the conflicts of its swashbuckling CEO Aubrey... More
The SEC’s Madoff Mess Gets Worse
The commission’s former top lawyer faces a possible criminal conflict of interest investigation
By Ryan Chittum Sep 20, 2011 at 07:33 PM
Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson report that the SEC's inspector general is referring the David M. Becker case to the... More
When a news executive sits on a bank’s board
The FT Group’s Fairhead is a director of troubled HSBC
By Ryan Chittum Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It’s unusual—rare, even—for the CEO of a major financial news and information concern to serve on the board of directors... More
Windmills, tourism, and transparency
Maine blogger’s ongoing conflict-of-interest problems spark concern
By Curtis Brainard Mar 13, 2013 at 04:00 PM
The former executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, who's now a fulltime media personality covering travel and outdoors... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
