The Audit
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure
The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
By Ryan Chittum Jul 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Here's the headline of a USA Today op-ed in Thursday's paper: Arthur B. Laffer: Collect more sales taxes Say what?... More
Roddy Boyd exposes a hedge-fund fraud
A scam for the social-media age
By Ryan Chittum Jul 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Roddy Boyd has the business read of the week with his dynamite investigation into Anthony Davian, the social-media loving hedge-fund... More
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC
The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
By Ryan Chittum Jul 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Elizabeth Warren on CNBC is my kind of TV: The plain-spoken brilliance of the Okie-gone-Harvard versus the savvy hectoring 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
On Koch vs. journalists: he said-she said
Washington Post says the Kochs are fighting the media, but not whether they have a leg to stand on
By Dean Starkman Jul 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's good to know, as Paul Farhi reports, that the Koch Brothers "use Web to take on media reports... More
Wall Street asset-strips Tribune’s newspapers
A Ken Doctor scoop shows a planned spinoff endangering the papers’ future
By Ryan Chittum Jul 15, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Tribune Company, which emerged from bankruptcy six months ago, announced last week that it will spin off its declining newspapers... More
Fortune’s Nina Easton plumps for Walmart in DC
Retail employment is a zero-sum game
By Ryan Chittum Jul 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The argument that if a company doesn't get its way, X number of jobs will disappear is an old canard... More
A chat with Lionel Barber
The editor of the Financial Times on what it means to be “digital first” and other topics
By Dean Starkman Jul 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Lionel Barber has been the editor the Financial Times since 2005. On a visit to New York earlier this spring,... More
The OC launches a newspaper war in the LBC
Aaron Kushner’s Orange County Register starts a daily Long Beach edition
By Ryan Chittum Jul 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Aaron Kushner, the newspaper industry's almost impossibly contrarian would-be savior, is launching a newspaper war with the MediaNews-owned Press-Telegram in... More
Reuters feeds the robots two-second scoops
The New York AG probes the selling of early access to market-moving information
By Ryan Chittum Jul 10, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The University of Michigan's market-moving reports on consumer confidence used to only be available via a $4,750 annual subscription paid... More
Geithner cashes in on Wall Street
Deutsche Bank, recipient of $8.5 billion bailout, coughs up $200,000 for a speech
By Ryan Chittum Jul 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Financial Times reports that former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner—Wall Street's (main) man in the Obama White House—is already cashing... More
Audit Notes: Amazon watch, the Capitalist Tool, WSJ and Pinochet
NYT finds the dominant bookseller reining in the discounts in some areas
By Ryan Chittum Jul 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Amazon has long employed predatory pricing to establish market dominance. And in Monopoly 101, cornering a market allows you to... More
Rupert Murdoch knew about his papers’ bribes culture
An explosive secret tape from CEO’s crisis chat with arrested Sun journalists
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2013 at 05:24 PM
At long last we now have indisputable evidence that Rupert Murdoch knew about the culture of criminality at his newspapers:... More
Crank lands positive BizWeek profile
The magazine lets David Stockman off easy
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
David Stockman is the former Reagan budget director and private-equity executive who paid $7.2 million in 2007 to make some... More
ProPublica probes the temp agencies
A lopsided power equation encourages abuses
By Ryan Chittum Jul 2, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Deep in its investigation of the temp industry, ProPublica prints this 1971 ad for "Kelly girls": Here's the text: Never... 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.
