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Audit Notes: Dimon the Persecuted, Mitt’s Taxes, Minimum Wage
By Ryan Chittum Jan 25, 2012 at 02:32 AM
Yesterday we heard press favorite Jamie Dimon sputtering about how swipe-fee regulations, which capped how much big banks could gouge... More
Audit Notes: Magnetar, Comfort the Comfortable, Minimum Wage
By Ryan Chittum Nov 1, 2010 at 06:50 PM
ProPublica reports that the SEC is investigating a specific JPMorgan deal with the Magnetar hedge fund and whether the bank... More
Audit Notes: Minimum Wage and the Recession, Facebook’s Numbers, Most Powerless
By Ryan Chittum Feb 3, 2012 at 06:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal runs an editorial today criticizing Mitt Romney for his support for increasing the minimum wage and... More
Audit Notes: Reinflating the bubble, Nader in the WSJ
The LA Times reports on a new rush in Southern California
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a good and disturbing look at how the LA housing market is already showing signs... More
Audit Notes: The FT does labor reporting, minimum wage, OC Register
An excellent look inside an Amazon warehouse in the UK
By Ryan Chittum Feb 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Financial Times has an excellent story on the dystopian work culture at Amazon warehouses: Inside, hundreds of people in... More
Bloomberg on the impacts of inequality
One longtime McDonald’s worker’s story says a lot about the economy
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg has an excellent story on low-wage work and inequality, comparing a longtime McDonald's worker to the company's CEO, who... More
Letters Man
Why the letters-to-the-editor section shouldn’t become a forum for flacks
By John Stoehr Dec 23, 2011 at 02:07 PM
In May 2011, the alt-weekly New Haven Advocate, which I edit, ran a story about the rising cost of rent... More
McDonald’s through management’s eyes, in the WSJ
Rude employees who, oh by the way, make poverty wages
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that internal McDonald's documents say that the fast food chain's customer service is "broken"—that it... More
The AP Puts Faces on the Poverty Numbers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 19, 2011 at 02:59 PM
The Associated Press fans out across the country to put faces on the poverty numbers released last week. Needless to... More
The Minimum Wage in Context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 13, 2012 at 02:18 AM
The New York Times reports that even in a weak economy, there's a fairly serious push for increasing the historically... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
