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Asking the wrong question about Dell
A WSJ columnist misses the point on the CEO-led buyout
By David Cay Johnston Mar 14, 2013 at 04:46 PM
Holman Jenkins' column in The Wall Street Journal on the proposed management buyout of Dell shareholders is an excellent example... More
Audit Notes: Gannett profits, Spiegel grilling, private equity
By Ryan Chittum Jun 27, 2012 at 02:37 AM
At least Gannett is optimistic about the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports (emphasis mine): Gannett, publisher of... More
Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity
WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven’t pulled away from everyone else
By Ryan Chittum Oct 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Republic's Timothy Noah and The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien demolish a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kevin "Dow 36,000"... More
Audit notes: No more daily in New Orleans, McClatchy, private equity
The NYT reports the Times-Picayune will print two or three times a week
By Ryan Chittum May 24, 2012 at 12:21 AM
If ever a town needed a newspaper, it's New Orleans. But David Carr reports that Newhouse is preparing big layoffs... More
Audit Notes: NYT and Bain, Dimon’s Comp Committee, 401(k)s
Too much focus on Romney, who left the company years before the alleged collusion
By Ryan Chittum Sep 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM
It's great that The New York Times is going aggressively after court documents in a big private-equity bid-rigging lawsuit, filing... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Black Box, Banker Probe, Laffer Curveball
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Politico makes a good point about how reporters are having something of a hard time assessing Mitt Romney's tenure at... More
Audit Notes: Seattle paywall, private equity taxes, mortgage security fraud
The Seattle Times will charge online readers beginning next month
By Ryan Chittum Feb 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times is the latest paper to join the paywall movement. It looks like it's basically copying The New... More
Audit Notes: Singing on Libor, another bank scandal, Star Tribune
The NYT on how banks are turning each other in
By Ryan Chittum Aug 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times, in a good page-one story, reports that giant banks are selling each other out trying to... 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
It’s the WSJ’s Turn on Romney’s Private Equity Record
By Ryan Chittum Jan 9, 2012 at 02:34 PM
Mitt Romney's tenure at private-equity firm Bain Capital is the gift that will keep on giving for journalists. Reuters reported... More
Must-reads of 2012: politics
What you should have read (in case you didn’t)
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Dec 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. From New York magazine,... More
On Debt, Mitt’s of Two Minds
A career built on it and a campaign that rails against it
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Jesse Eisinger has a smart New York Times column on how Mitt Romney, fittingly perhaps, is running on debt while... More
Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls
Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2012 at 05:30 PM
As far as voices of support go, the news business probably wishes it could do better than a patent troll... More
Reuters on Romney’s Private-Equity Past
How Bain Capital profited as workers got crushed
By Ryan Chittum Jan 6, 2012 at 03:15 PM
Reuters has a great look today at how Mitt Romney's Bain Capital loaded up a steel company with debt, mismanaged... More
Subprime Déjà Vu
The Los Angeles Times investigates the Buy Here Pay Here car market
By Ryan Chittum Nov 1, 2011 at 07:20 PM
In this market, the companies handing out loans make money whether you pay them back or not. Agents trick hard-luck,... More
The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop
Emails between executives look like antitrust smoking guns
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
A tip of The Audit's green eyeshade to The New York Times for fighting to get this look inside the... More
The private-equity problem with Romney and GS Technologies (UPDATED)
Loading up a company with debt to ensure Bain’s own profits
By Ryan Chittum May 25, 2012 at 02:26 PM
It's seriously grating to see an Eton and Oxford-educated ambassador's son who works for the Council on Foreign Relations rant... 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 (18)
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.
