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Another A1 Times-Picayune press release
This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure
The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
By Ryan Chittum Jul 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Here's the headline of a USA Today op-ed in Thursday's paper: Arthur B. Laffer: Collect more sales taxes Say what?... More
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: WSJ and labor, Tumblr-speak, not the London whale
Getting it right on a nursing-home worker shortage
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2013 at 08:30 AM
I got on the Journal last week for completely missing labor's point of view in a story on cranky McDonald's... More
Benjamin Wey and the Power of PR
By Felix Salmon Nov 23, 2010 at 12:33 AM
In September, one Benjamin Wey, calling himself "Chinese American Financial Expert Foremost Expert On Chinese Business in U.S.," put out... More
Bloomberg’s Thin “Made in the USA” Story
Marketers run amok on a luxury manufacturing renaissance
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM
This Bloomberg News story on luxury brands waving the red, white, and blue leaves much to be desired. First, it's... More
Calling Out a Source that Lied
The Memphis Commercial Appeal holds Schnucks accountable
By Craig Silverman Sep 9, 2011 at 01:19 PM
As far as official denials go, it was clear and emphatic. Lori Willis, communications director of the Schnucks grocery chain,... More
Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules
An NYT story shows the WSJ parroting bogus Wall Street spin
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein makes a great catch this morning, noting that The Wall Street Journal and New York Times... More
GE Flubs a Pushback Against The New York Times
The company can’t—or won’t—get its story straight on taxes
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2011 at 11:24 AM
General Electric went into full public-relations pushback mode after The New York Times's damaging story Friday on how it avoids... More
Goldman’s WSJ Score
By Ryan Chittum Jun 6, 2011 at 02:49 PM
Goldman Sachs displays some savvy PR in getting The Wall Street Journal to go big with a story about it... More
Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2012 at 02:06 PM
It's tempting to get all savvy and snarky about Greg Smith's op-ed in The New York Times this morning on... More
Leakapalooza on the Hill
Public relations bends this morning’s banking committee previews
By Dean Starkman Nov 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Bank of America previewed and helped to soften its executives' planned apology before Congress today by letting the Times... More
Microsoft’s live-action press release
Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet
By Ryan Chittum Jun 19, 2012 at 08:00 AM
Yesterday, Microsoft got a bunch of tech journalists to go to Hollywood for what it promised would be a major... More
Spinning the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision
The press rides a PR tsunami on Obamacare
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 5, 2012 at 02:42 PM
In the days before and after the Supreme Court’s decision, spin doctors were hard at work peddling their experts, positions,... More
Sympathy for the Walmart flack
How the PR-afflicted colossus pushes its “jobs” narrative on a credulous press
By Ryan Chittum Jul 24, 2013 at 06:56 AM
On some level you have to feel a little bad for the Walmart flack. You try polishing the image of... More
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop
A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times posts a flacktacular Business Day piece on a new hedge fund named Falcon Edge. This new... More
The Times’s Fluffy Coverage of the State of the Union
A poor show that amplifies Obama’s public-relations spiel
By Ryan Chittum Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Did The New York Times really need to lead its page one with a two-column, three-line headline about a pedestrian... More
The WSJ bakes a bogus trend
And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now... 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.
