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hamster wheel
Advance to nowhere
Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Advance Publications's announcement today on the future of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was less dramatic than the one a year... More
Audit Notes: Digital First takedown, here comes the WSJ, debt and taxes
The Awl roughs up Journal Register’s flagship paper
By Ryan Chittum Sep 24, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Brett Sokol, writes one of the most brutal piece of media criticism I've read in a long time. He examines... More
Audit Notes: Hamster Wheel Manifesto, Shorts and the Bubble, Economy Picks Up
By Ryan Chittum Feb 1, 2011 at 07:58 PM
Business Insider got hold of an AOL document laying out the company's "master plan" for its content farm. I think... More
Audit Notes: Off the Hamster Wheel, The Dumb Money, iPad Newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2012 at 01:53 AM
I like this Nieman Journalism Lab piece on how Salon hopped off the hamster wheel and saw site traffic increase... More
Audit Notes: Social Security and Ponzi, Regulation, Hamster Wheel
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2011 at 08:58 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler has a nice rebuttal to Rick Perry's false claim in last night's Republican debate... More
Audit Notes: The Dimon Dare; Bloomberg’s Bank FOIA, Hamsters Attack!
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2011 at 07:13 PM
The Financial Times reports tonight that press favorite Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, that regulation is going to kill... More
Audit Notes: WaPo hamster wheel, weather.com, bureaucracy’s upside
“At least a dozen pieces of content per day”
By Ryan Chittum Mar 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Poynter's Andrew Beaujon reports this internal want ad for the Washington Post's once-vaunted Style section: This blogger should be able... More
Audit Notes: WaPo on the Bain thing, deadbeat Forbes, hamster wheel
The Post’s revealing slip-up on the definition of swift-boating
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 08:06 PM
The Washington Post apparently doesn't understand just how toxic Wall Street and its even more rapacious cousin, private equity—not popular... More
Audit notes: WSJ dings austerity, Weisenthal, The Global Mail
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 07:58 PM
If you're looking to get up to speed on what happened with the euro and Greece, you could do a... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Libor scoop, Business Insider, reader revenue
Deutsche Bank made big money betting on the rigged rate
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal posts an interesting page-one report on Deutsche Bank and the big profits it made betting on... More
Audit Radio: Cleveland edition
Dean Starkman joins a panel of Ohio journalists on the future of newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Audit Chief Dean Starkman talked about the future of newspapers on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCRN this morning. "Sound of Ideas"... More
Best of 2012: Dean Starkman
The Audit chief’s best of the year
By Dean Starkman Dec 31, 2012 at 01:17 PM
A Narrowed Gaze — How the business press forgot the rest of us. What McClure Said: “The Story is the... More
Big Wheel Keep on Turnin’
Hamster for the holidays from the NYT, WSJ, and Politico
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2010 at 03:09 PM
Audit boss Dean Starkman wrote a CJR cover story a couple of months ago called "The Hamster Wheel," decrying journalistic... More
Business Insider and Financial Press Sensationalism
Henry Blodget & Co. stroke the id of the Internet
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM
What business press readers always lacked but never really needed was a tabloid sensationalist to hype up mundane markets and... More
EXCLUSIVE: WSJ memo doubles down on scoops
An internal memo over the transom
By Dean Starkman Jan 10, 2013 at 07:20 PM
Fresh over the transom, a new memo from The Wall Street Journal’s hierarchy on the importance of scoops to reporters’... More
FCC Report: “The Information Needs of Communities”
By Joel Meares Jun 9, 2011 at 11:57 AM
The FCC's eighteen-months-in-the-making Future of Media report—now called "The Information Needs of Communities"—is now out and available below for your... More
Hearst buckles under advertiser pressure
The Times Union caves after reader-response post dinged real estate agents
By Ryan Chittum Dec 19, 2012 at 03:00 PM
It's been a long time since we've seen anything as craven as the Albany Times-Union's capitulation to real estate agents... More
Huffington Post and “Over-Aggregation”
Where do we draw the line between aggregation and plagiarism?
By The Editors Jul 12, 2011 at 05:14 PM
AdAge media columnist Simon Dumenco recently posed a good question to the online news community: “What constitutes unfair -- unethical... More
Must-reads of the week
A-difficult-week edition
By The Editors Dec 21, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Paywalls did not cause the fall of WSJ longform
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal misses the Murdoch
By Ryan Chittum Apr 17, 2013 at 06:30 PM
Alexis Madrigal asks whether The Wall Street Journal's paywall is responsible for its turning away from longform journalism. That one's... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
