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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
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
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
‘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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
