The Audit
Going Beyond Glass-Steagall II
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 10:17 AM
John McCain is getting all mavericky again. He's now on board for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the breakup of... More
Thursday Links: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Fan/Fred, Tablets
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 07:51 PM
I've suggested this for a good while now, only half in jest, and now The Miami Herald is doing it:... More
More on Why We Won’t Tax Banker Bonuses
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Nobody loves a critic, they say, and from my experience at The Audit it's mostly true. So I love it... More
Deficit Reduction and Windfall Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Dec 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM
There a number of reasons for instituting a windfall tax on bankers, and they've been most ably spelled out by... More
Wednesday Links: SEC and CDOs, Meyerson, Wasted Crisis
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 06:49 PM
Here's more ammo for the just-blow-up-the-SEC-and-start-again crowd: NPR's Planet Money and ProPublica report on a questionnaire sent to CDO market... More
WaPo on (Another) U.S. Giveaway to Citi
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 03:44 PM
(UPDATE: I originally said in the headline and lede that the Post had a scoop here. That's not right. The... More
Bloomberg Tough on Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Bloomberg takes a good look at the fading chance to anything meaningful to reform the financial system, noting that "Two... More
NYT’s Creativity On the Unemployment Story
By Dean Starkman Dec 15, 2009 at 05:56 PM
The Times deserves a little something extra in its pay envelope for this morning's unemployment package: a story based on... More
WSJ Excels on Retirement Risk for Execs, Employees
By Ryan Chittum Dec 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM
I love this Wall Street Journal story this morning on how CEOs, despite their rich paydays, often get automatic gains... More
Monday Links: Banks Winning, Volcker’s ATM, TARP Paybacks
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 06:23 PM
This is a really solid Bloomberg story on lobbying and how the bank lobby has really won, even if new... More
Everybody’s Got an Angle
WSJ’s Thomson on NYT’s Carr
By Dean Starkman Dec 14, 2009 at 05:42 PM
It’s probably an understatement to say that we at The Audit weren’t nuts about the prospect of News Corp. buying... More
Mark Pittman, In His Own Words, On Camera
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 03:12 PM
You've read quite a bit by the late Mark Pittman of Bloomberg. You've read quite a bit about him here... More
Carr on the Journal’s News Pages Moving Right
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2009 at 10:22 AM
David Carr has a good column about the rightward tilt of Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal, which before he took... More
Friday Links: Goldman and AIG, Bernie’s Life, Why a Windfall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a major story tonight, presumably slated for page one of tomorrow's paper, showing that Goldman... More
Early Results from the Newsday Paywall
By Ryan Chittum Dec 11, 2009 at 06:02 PM
It's no surprise that Newsday's Web traffic declined after it put up a paywall. What is surprising is how it... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
