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Ace in the Hole (1951)
What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM
I’ve got Murdoch on the brain, but I couldn’t help thinking about the News of the World scandal while watching... More
News of the World and U.S. Media Culture
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2011 at 08:17 PM
I was asked an interesting question earlier today by a BBC producer who wanted to know about the American angle... More
Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness
Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline
By Jennifer Miller May 17, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Tabloid City | by Pete Hamill | Little, Brown and Company | 288 pages, $26.99 In the opening pages of... More
Audit Notes: WSJ’s Facebook Non-News, Bogus Bloomberg, Tabloid Id
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 PM
Fortune's Dan Primack calls out The Wall Street Journal for hyping non-news on page one that Facebook is going to... More
Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Denuded County, Recession Watch, Reporting Rumors
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2011 at 04:14 PM
Bloomberg News revisits JPMorgan Chase's screwing of Jefferson County, Alabama, as the county debates whether to file for bankruptcy because... More
Audit Notes: Radicalized, Nonprofit Newt, Murdoch’s Wedding Singer
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2011 at 07:56 PM
Kevin Drum riffs off Bloomberg Markets story on banks' bailout profits to write about how the response to the crash... More
Audit Notes: Tabloid Chutzpah, Paywall Performance, The Fed and Dividends
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2012 at 08:44 PM
Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids, which were rogue even by the viciously sensationalist standards of that... More
Tracing the Hacking Scandal’s Medieval Roots
The (mis-) education of the British Empire’s Boy Reporters
By Arthur Jones Jul 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Mr. Hinton joined Mr. Murdoch’s first paper, The News, in Adelaide, at age 15.... The New York Times, July 16,... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
