The Audit
Frontline hits hard on the lack of crisis prosecutions
And a top DOJ official resigns the next day
By Ryan Chittum Jan 31, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We'd be remiss to not flag Frontline's outstanding investigation into the shameful failure of the Obama administration to pursue, much... More
Reuters gets a scalp
Its fantastic reporting takes down Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon
By Ryan Chittum Jan 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters had already gotten results for its outstanding investigation into Chesapeake Energy and the conflicts of its swashbuckling CEO Aubrey... More
Audit Notes: New Orleans newspaper intrigue, NYT numbers, CNET
The Manships are in talks about selling The Advocate
By Ryan Chittum Jan 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Baton Rouge's Manship family threw a wrench in the Newhouses' plans for the Times-Picayune when they launched a daily New... More
Q&A with the FT’s Martin Dickson
A new US managing editor takes over at the salmon-colored financial daily
By Dean Starkman Jan 28, 2013 at 07:00 AM
Martin Dickson came on as US managing editor of the Financial Times in September, succeeding Gillian Tett, who is on... More
Financial crisis bodies are still surfacing
Jesse Eisinger on a Morgan Stanley CDO scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
If you think, going on six years after the onset of the financial crisis, that we've learned about all we're... More
The press underplays the Geithner leak
A Fed president claims the now-Treasury Secretary gave inside information to Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Jan 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Of all the things we expected to see in the 2007 Federal Reserve meeting transcripts released last week, Tim Geithner... More
Longform meltdown (cont.)
Reaction to a post on the decline of longform stories at major papers
By Dean Starkman Jan 22, 2013 at 07:00 AM
My post presenting data showing that major newspapers drastically cut back their longform story output in the last decade generated... More
Audit Notes: mixed signals, Sam Zell’s phony equity, power shift
The Seattle Times flubs an inflation report
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Deflation has set in in the Seattle area, according to a misleading Seattle Times story: This is awfully confusing. The... More
Amazon takes a tax hit, finally
Reuters reports early signs that collecting sales taxes affected the company’s sales
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters reports that Amazon's fourth quarter results may take a hit from new laws that force it to collect sales... More
Major papers’ longform meltdown
Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jan 17, 2013 at 03:11 PM
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider... More
Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York
In Oneida, the paper moves to three days a week, following the Post-Standard
By Ryan Chittum Jan 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The three-day-a-week newspaper model pioneered by Advance Publications in Michigan is now spreading to Digital First Media. The company will... More
Reuters’s OKC gusher
Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
By Ryan Chittum Jan 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters's reporting on Oklahoma natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy was some of the best corporate journalism of last year. Its... More
Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime
Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
By Ryan Chittum Jan 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The contrast between how aggressively authorities have gone after inside-trading hedge fund impresarios and how softly they've tiptoed around Wall... More
Native ads’ existential problem
L’affaire Atlantic/Scientology points up the format’s built-in problems for news
By Dean Starkman Jan 15, 2013 at 11:00 PM
The Atlantic’s big mistake in the Scientololgy “debacle” has been variously described as: 1. Running an ad in the... More
CBS’s CNET Fiasco
An egregious breach of editorial dependence damages its credibility
By Ryan Chittum Jan 15, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Last week, CNET picked Dish Network's Hopper with Sling, a DVR that can skip ads even more efficiently than other... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
