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too big to fail
1955: When Chase Was Too Small to Bail
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2011 at 10:55 AM
American Banker has a fun flashback that helps show how out of whack our financial system has gotten in the... More
NYT, Jamie Dimon, and Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Dec 6, 2010 at 07:22 PM
Felix Salmon already dissected Roger Lowenstein's, as he called it, "credulous" New York Times Mag profile of press favorite Jamie... More
A Credulous NYT Piece on Dimon
By Felix Salmon Dec 6, 2010 at 08:31 AM
I'm not a huge fan of Roger Lowenstein's NYT Magazine piece on Jamie Dimon, which comes complete with a positively... More
Audit Notes: “People Love It,” The New Nocera, NYT Parody Flop
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2011 at 09:05 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column on a panel of top financiers discussing financial reform and too big to... More
Audit Notes: bad banks edition
Too big to behave or to fail
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Gretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions... More
Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Michael Lewis, who says he sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Street movement, interviews himself on what he would do if... More
Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2012 at 07:49 PM
David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department... More
Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM
Ken Doctor has a good post for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab on why news organizations need to be ramping up... More
Audit Notes: Crisis Panel Has Teeth?, Mortgage Fraud, Corporate Size
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2011 at 08:44 PM
Shahien Nasiripour of The Huffington Post scoops that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may just have some impact after all:... More
Audit Notes: Financial Fraud and the Economy, TBTF Debts, Health Care
By Ryan Chittum Apr 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM
Mike Konczal has some good thoughts on the Levin-Coburn Report, financial fraud, and ProPublica's Pulitzer win for their Wall Street... More
Audit Notes: Goldman dissembles, Corporate taxes, Silicon Valley
Bloomberg View shreds the bank’s too-big-to-fail apology
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Goldman Sachs issued a report recently claiming to debunk the fact that too-big-to-fail banks like itself get implicit taxpayer subsidies... More
Audit Notes: GOP gold bugs, too big to fail, Niall Ferguson
The myth of hard money
By Ryan Chittum Aug 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Republicans have put the gold standard (or at least a commission to study the idea) back in their party's... More
Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value
The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death and... More
Audit Notes: Libor Rain Man, fraud without fraudsters, George Will on TBTF
The Journal spotlights an RBS banker at the center of the scandal
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal's David Enrich has some great reporting on Tom Hayes, the RBS banker at the center of... More
Audit notes: Questions for JPMorgan, hindsight journalism, Ticketmaster
Jesse Eisinger asks what and when Dimon & Co. knew about the bank’s big loss
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2012 at 06:11 PM
ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger, in his NYT DealBook column, writes about what the press and the authorities should be asking about... More
Audit Notes: The Too Big to Fail Get Bigger, News Corp. Scandal, FT on Fire
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2011 at 09:56 PM
The Huffington Post reports that the Obama administration, far from splitting up the too-big-to-fail banks, will allow them to get... More
Audit Notes: The U-6ers, Jamie’s corporate welfare, The Guardian’s future
The NYT looks at those with not enough work
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I like this Michael Cooper piece in The New York Times on the folks who don't show up in the... More
Audit Notes: Too Big to Fail Edition
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig has a must-read op-ed in The New York Times on why too big to... More
Audit Notes: too big to prosecute, the techno-utopian backlash
Attorney General Holder admits Wall Street gigantism deters Justice charges
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2013 at 07:40 AM
Lanny Breuer all but admitted it, but his former boss Eric Holder went all the way yesterday, telling Congress the... More
Audit Notes: Twitter’s censors, NYT apology, Craigslist’s aggregators
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Twitter gave itself a serious black eye today, censoring a journalist for reporting the easy-to-figure-out corporate email address of NBC... 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.
