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privacy
Audit Notes: Google’s stonewalling, Moody’s spin clinic, USDA mortgages
An NYT story on how the company tried to stymie investigators of its Street View program
By Ryan Chittum May 30, 2012 at 09:48 PM
This New York Times story is a few days old, but worth flagging. The paper reports on Google's roguish reaction... More
Audit Notes: Paywalls Paying Off, Digital Privacy, Murdoch
By Ryan Chittum Feb 29, 2012 at 07:54 PM
As Warren Buffett knows, when you give away your product online, it undermines the one you charge good money for... More
Audit Notes: Wells Bells, Nontaxpayers, Facebook Apps and Privacy
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2012 at 01:28 AM
The Huffington Post reports that Elizabeth Magner, a federal judge in Louisiana, hit Wells Fargo with $3.1 million in punitive... More
HeLa-cious coverage
Media overlook ethical angles of Henrietta Lacks story
By Curtis Brainard Mar 28, 2013 at 11:00 AM
A New York Times bestseller about the most widely used human cell line in biological research has inspired wide-ranging debates... More
How hard should it be for the government to read your email?
Harder than it is right now
By Sarah Laskow Mar 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In 1986, it would have been strange to keep an email for longer than six months. First of all, not... More
How technology redefines norms
Reasonable resistance to the upending of cultural mores is not “technopanic”
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass. The Victorian attitudes... More
Poor coverage of Google’s Street View scandal settlement
Incomplete accounts make the story more favorable to Mountain View
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Google paid $7 million to 38 states earlier this week to settle its Street View privacy scandal. This was a... More
Stories I’d Like to See
A trove of stories from the Facebook IPO
By Steven Brill Feb 8, 2012 at 11:31 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
The WSJ Exposes Google’s Tracking Hack
By Ryan Chittum Feb 17, 2012 at 01:40 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop this morning on how Google and other companies overrode Apple privacy settings... More
The Bloomberg terminal scandal
Not nearly in the Murdoch hacking league, but it requires a cultural shift
By Ryan Chittum May 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Bloomberg terminal-snooping story is a serious ethics problem, but I've read some awfully hysterical takes on it in 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
