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A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Jun 3, 2011 at 01:06 PM
The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its... More
A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press
Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago
By Ryan Chittum Apr 5, 2011 at 02:11 PM
The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just... More
A welcome spotlight on trade deals
Reuters’s Johnston goes to Korea to look at the prospects of a new agreement
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In March, the Obama administration implemented a trade agreement with South Korea that it promised, implausibly, would create tens of... More
Audit Notes: Economic Policy Edition
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2011 at 07:17 PM
Ezra Klein, in his long story (which you should read) on why and how Obama's economic policy failed (I should... More
Audit Notes: Free Trade “Hit,” Taxing Wall Street, Bruce Karatz v. Tron Carter
By Ryan Chittum Nov 12, 2010 at 03:29 PM
One thing the financial press doesn't much pretend to be neutral about is "free trade." They love that stuff. See... More
Audit Notes: Papacare, Post problem, trade reporting
Forbes finds Papa John’s Obamacare math doesn’t add up
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2012 at 03:08 AM
Papa John's CEO John Schnatter has been carping for some time that Obamacare will add 10 to 14 cents to... More
Audit Notes: The Costs of Trade, WSJ Op-Ed Page, Frontier Days
By Ryan Chittum Sep 27, 2011 at 07:53 PM
The Wall Street Journal covers an MIT study that found the downsides of trade with China have been worse than... More
Audit Notes: Two Economies, Red-Handed Raj, Life at SXSW
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2011 at 08:30 PM
Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post comments on a new study out from an NYU prof that shows how globalization... More
Audit Notes: Wall Street sheriffs, preprints, Globalization and workers
Supposedly in a “race to investigate, indict, subpoena and fine”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal would have you believe Wall Street is running scared from all the financial cops in New... More
Ezra Klein’s Flawed Assumptions on Trade With China
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2011 at 07:11 PM
Ezra Klein accepts some unfortunate assumptions in his Washington Post column on trade yesterday morning. Let's start with this one:... More
Flack-Driven Local Coverage of a Factory Closure Fails
Fort Smith’s Southwest Times Record blows it on a huge loss to the community
By Ryan Chittum Oct 28, 2011 at 06:33 PM
Whirpool is laying off more than a thousand employees in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and shipping the work to Mexico and... More
Pearlstein: On China Trade, an Eye for an Eye
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Of all the commentary this week on China, none got to the heart of the problem anywhere near as well... More
Remapping the Debate on China’s Industrial Policy
Our rival has one. Where’s ours?
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2011 at 04:27 PM
Remapping Debate has an interesting piece on how the U.S. finds itself at the mercy of the Chinese for a... More
That Giant Sucking Sound
WSJ: Big companies shed millions of jobs in 2000s while adding millions abroad
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM
The Wall Street Journal has your chart of the day. It shows that U.S.-based multinational corporations added 2.4 million workers... More
The Post goes south on NAFTA
The paper ignores or glosses over Mexico trade’s effects on the US
By Ryan Chittum Sep 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post rah-rah story on trade with Mexico last week left out key context for its American readers. The... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
