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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
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
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
‘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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
