The Audit
Tuesday Links: Donations, WSJ Short-Arm, Goldie’s Corporate Welfare
By Ryan Chittum Dec 22, 2009 at 05:20 PM
Steve Outing, like me, likes the idea of asking readers for donations. He just thinks The Miami Herald is going... More
Sorkin Is Good on TARP Payback Fees
By Ryan Chittum Dec 22, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column in the Times today looking at how bankers are making money off their... More
The Journal’s Citigroup Hacker Story
By Ryan Chittum Dec 22, 2009 at 09:52 AM
The Wall Street Journal's fascinating scoop this morning on Russian hackers stealing tens of millions of dollars from Citigroup is... More
Monday Links: Brass Replica, CDFI Funding, Reuters Caves?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2009 at 06:46 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman, with a new book out on a guy who made billions betting against subprime,... More
The Post on Where the Fed Went Wrong
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2009 at 03:53 PM
It's good for Ben Bernanke that his re-confirmation as Federal Reserve chief is all but assured, because the Washington Post... More
LAT’s Kristof Keeps an Eye on the Overdraft Racket
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2009 at 01:07 PM
The press too often loses interest in a story once some change is done to appease the restive, however incomplete... More
Bloomberg Scoop on Twitter’s Search Engine Payday
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2009 at 09:57 AM
We finally know how much Twitter got paid by Google and Microsoft's Bing to index its content: $25 million. Bloomberg... More
Friday Links: Under the TARP. WaPo Results, Shadow Space
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 05:19 PM
The Wall Street Journal does some solid reporting on the machinations behind the TARP exits. This is interesting: Some Citigroup... More
Walk the Line or Walk Away?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 18, 2009 at 03:28 PM
Blogworld's got an interesting back-and-forth going on about the morality of walking away from a mortgage. I've got to admit,... More
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
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”
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Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
