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euro crisis
NYT on the Irish Mess
A private-sector crisis turned into the people’s problem by politicians.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2010 at 11:16 AM
This New York Times lede from Friday is terrific, conveying as it does the Bizarro world of the Irish bailout:... More
Adventures in Markets Reporting
By Felix Salmon Jan 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM
European stocks went up today, and European bonds went down. That happens, sometimes. But there was lots of news floating... 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: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their... More
Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2012 at 02:21 AM
Bloomberg's Mark Whitehouse is good to report that as the Eurocrisis flares again, with Spain in the spotlight now, investors... More
Audit Notes: Nobody’s Guilty In SEC Deals, Swipe Fees, Euromess
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The New York Times makes a good catch on the disparities in a Justice Department settlement with Wachovia and an... More
Audit Notes: Panic in the Markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 4, 2011 at 08:03 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 512 points today, some 4.3 percent, as panic takes hold in global markets. The... More
Audit Notes: Slick Politics, Greece’s Red Flag, What Caused Oil’s Tumble?
By Ryan Chittum May 12, 2011 at 08:35 PM
I noted a Huffington Post story the other day reporting that removing drilling bans wouldn't really affect the price of... More
Audit Notes: Spain’s Dilemma, Brits’ outrage on Libor, Audit Radio
Martin Wolf on how the country’s woes show the roots of the euro crisis
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 01:32 AM
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has an excellent blog post pointing out how wrong Germany and Co. are about... More
Audit Notes: The Euro Crisis’s 1930s Parallels, Taibbi on Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2011 at 01:24 AM
The eurozone crisis is now at its worst point with Italy's interest rates at unsustainable rates and quite possibly past... More
Audit Notes: Very profitable staff cuts; Dimon’s crisis bet; Obama and trade
Time Inc. squeezes Sports Illustrated for more money
By Ryan Chittum Jun 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Edmund Lee gets a great quote from the editor of Time Incorporated's Sports Group, Terry McDonell, on why Sports... More
Audit Notes: wincing with WSJ, Golden Dawn, energy-market manipulation
Treasury candidates and Journal art
By Ryan Chittum Oct 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama is trying to fire up the base with trial balloons on who... More
Bloomberg unearths an Italian bank scandal
Its story reverberates across Europe
By Ryan Chittum Feb 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Back in mid-January, Bloomberg's Elisa Martinuzzi and Nicholas Dunbar reported that Deutsche Bank helped Italy's third-largest bank, Monte Paschi, cover... More
Stories I’d like to see
Votes and dollar signs, cancer cure-rate claims, present at the euro’s creation
By Steven Brill Jun 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... 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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
