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Annals of Government Toothlessness, HAMP edition
ProPublica with a fantastic piece
By Felix Salmon Oct 5, 2011 at 11:11 AM
ProPublica’s Paul Kiel has a fantastic story about the way in which the government has proved utterly toothless with... More
Audit Notes: Bain’s LBOs, Star Tribune, Wolff on JRC
ProPublica reports that the “turnaround artist” narrative is off
By Ryan Chittum Sep 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger looks at Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, calling into question the narrative that it was largely about... More
Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact
ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to... More
Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego
ProPublica documents JPMorgan Chase’s extensive ties to a docile Senate Banking Committee
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM
ProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill... More
Audit Notes: NYT scoop, Freddie’s anti-stimulus, Wired on making stuff
Riches for the family of a top Chinese official
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times David Barboza gets a huge scoop on corruption in China, reporting that the family of the... More
Audit Notes: Politico’s Goldman PR, ProPublica Vindicated, Mark to Myth
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2011 at 06:06 PM
The Huffington Post's Peter S. Goodman points to a bizarre report in Politico this morning: Much was made of a... More
Audit Notes: ProPub vs. BofA, Wall Street in the White House, Short-Armed
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2010 at 08:02 PM
I love to see the press just flat-out say somebody's full of it. ProPublica's Karen Weise does that today, calling... More
Audit Notes: Pulitzer Edition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2011 at 08:30 PM
The financial crisis is now more than three years old, but up to now there had been no Pulitzer Prize... More
Audit Notes: The IRS story in context, Silicon Valley oligarchs
Necessary context from ProPublica and the NYT on the overblown scandal
By Ryan Chittum May 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The bulk of the IRS scandal press coverage has been seriously devoid of the kind of context that tells readers... More
Best of 2010: Dean Starkman
CJR’s Kingsford Capital Fellow picks his top stories of the year
By Dean Starkman Dec 28, 2010 at 09:23 AM
The Hamster Wheel. Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere. The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s... More
Financial crisis bodies are still surfacing
Jesse Eisinger on a Morgan Stanley CDO scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
If you think, going on six years after the onset of the financial crisis, that we've learned about all we're... More
How to use social media in investigations
ProPublica explains at Social Media Weekend
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Investigative reporting used to be a secretive business--think Woodward and Bernstein meeting anonymous sources in parking garages. But according to... More
How West was spun
Mistakes were made, and one narrative too readily embraced, in coverage of the blast. Meanwhile, The Dallas Morning News excelled
By Richard Parker May 24, 2013 at 11:00 AM
AUSTIN, TX -- At 7:30 pm Eastern time on May 16, Erin Burnett turned toward the camera in CNN's New... More
More on Second Liens
By Felix Salmon Mar 22, 2011 at 02:46 PM
I had a long conversation with Jesse Eisinger on the subject of second liens and the proposed mortgage settlement... More
ProPublica and Fortune’s Unhelpful Post on GE’s Taxes
Taking the company’s word for it to rebut The New York Times
By Ryan Chittum Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Fortune's Allan Sloan and ProPublica's Jeff Gerth asserted a couple of days ago that The New York Times got it... More
ProPublica and NYT Are Confusing On Second Liens (UPDATED)
By Felix Salmon Mar 17, 2011 at 05:11 PM
Jesse Eisinger has a conspiracy theory about the way that second liens are treated in the proposed mortgage settlement: The... More
ProPublica and How to Support Investigative Journalism
By Felix Salmon Apr 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Paul Steiger is rightly proud of his latest Pulitzer -- the second for ProPublica in as many years. He's right,... More
ProPublica and NPR on Freddie Mac’s Conflicts
By Ryan Chittum Jan 30, 2012 at 04:34 PM
Why haven't Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae been much more aggressive about refinancing the mortgages they hold? That's a $50... More
ProPublica Catches Ally Financial Making It Up
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2011 at 08:33 PM
ProPublica has a terrific report today nailing Ally Financial (the former GMAC) for faking mortgage documents in order to foreclose... More
ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM
I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
