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WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More
WSJ Spotlights Wage Declines of the Laid Off
By Ryan Chittum Jan 11, 2011 at 08:41 PM
The Wall Street Journal is excellent today with this front-page examination of what the recession is doing to wages of... More
A McDonald’s own-goal on wages
Accidentally exposing the fallacy of its own personal-finance advice to workers
By Ryan Chittum Jul 16, 2013 at 11:15 AM
In her book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, Helaine Olen writes about how the... More
Audit Notes: Tax Break, No Wage Pressure, Clowning Schneiderman
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Reuters's David Cay Johnston has a good column today on why tax rates are lower than we generally think: We... More
Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model
Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Gambit's Kevin Allman reports that the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge bureau chief is out after six months. My long... More
Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM
Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More
Bad Math From the WSJ Opinion Pages
By Ryan Chittum Feb 6, 2012 at 07:41 PM
Brad DeLong catches The Wall Street Journal editorial page in some hilariously bad math. Here's Stephen Moore: Federal workers on... More
Blodget Asks a Taboo Question on Wages and Profits
By Ryan Chittum Feb 16, 2012 at 04:08 PM
I like this Henry Blodget thought experiment on how much more major companies could afford to compensate their ill-paid employees.... More
John Stossel’s poor logic on minimum wages and jobs
Fox host fails to explain away Australia’s high wages and low unemployment
By Ryan Chittum Jul 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Fox Business's John Stossel is a long-time opponent of the minimum wage. I don't mean he opposes raising the minimum... More
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation
When prices matter and when they don’t
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This SmartMoney post on "Why You're Not Getting a Raise" doesn't make sense. The lede: Didn’t get a raise this... More
The “Can’t Find Workers” Meme
The Post’s business-friendly frame
By Ryan Chittum Feb 21, 2012 at 07:59 PM
In a time when millions of American workers can't find work, it's only natural to be intrigued by counterintuitive stories... More
The systemic plight of labor
A revealing Thomas Friedman column on 401(k)s
By Felix Salmon May 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM
It's May Day, and Henry Blodget is celebrating -- if that's the right word -- with three charts, of... 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.
