3 things big media can do to save independent journalism

This is adapted from Rebecca MacKinnon’s 2012 Hearst New Media Lecture, given at Columbia’s J-school on April 19

By The Editors   May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM

By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media... More

Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps

New York cover story dispenses with named sources

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2012 at 02:12 AM

Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague... More

Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright

Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy:... More

Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM

Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American... More

Audit notes: Facebook disclosure, Facebook value, soft corruption

By Ryan Chittum   May 22, 2012 at 05:58 PM

Business Insider's Henry Blodget, who knows a thing or two about analyst/IPO scandals, writes that Facebook and/or its bankers could... 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: Facebook IPO edition

Why the flop matters

By Ryan Chittum   May 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Joe Nocera glosses over the problem with Facebook's IPO in arguing that we shouldn't care whether its shares plunged after... More

Audit Notes: Instaflim-flam, off the Hamster Wheel, Hulu

The New York Times raises questions about a CEO’s sworn testimony

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The New York Times's Nick Bilton reports that Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom appears to have misled regulators asking about Facebook's... More

Audit Notes: NYT yacht coverage, Diluted tech stocks, CNBC

How stock options obscure what companies like Facebook are really worth

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The New York Times takes a tough look at a pressing issue in our struggling economy: "How to Keep Yachting... More

Audit Notes: that 1930s feeling, Facebook small fry, Carter’s Grove

Martin Wolf’s hair is on fire

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 5, 2012 at 08:21 PM

Martin Wolf's hair is on fire in the Financial Times: Suppose that in June 2007 you had been told that... More

Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet

This is the text of this year’s Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School

By Rebecca MacKinnon   May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM

How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this... More

Facebook as a reporting tool

The new graph search gives journalists a way to construct a trend story without picking up the phone. Is this a good thing?

By Ann Friedman   Jan 24, 2013 at 10:57 AM

You have a Facebook account. I know this because everyone has a Facebook account. And you are a journalist. I... More

Facebook fiasco

The well connected made out while retail investors got hosed

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2012 at 01:04 PM

We're starting to get a better picture of what happened with Facebook on Friday and in the run-up to its... More