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minimum wage
A Big Mac miss by The Huffington Post
Poor reporting on a “study” by a Kansas undergrad
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Huffington Post reports that McDonald's could double its workers wages by raising the price of a Big Mac by... More
A McDonald’s own-goal on wages
Accidentally exposing the fallacy of its own personal-finance advice to workers
By Ryan Chittum Jul 16, 2013 at 11:15 AM
In her book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, Helaine Olen writes about how the... More
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
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.
