The Audit
Questionable News Judgment of the Day
By Ryan Chittum Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Why does The Wall Street Journal put a fourth-day news story about a golfer's minor car accident on page-two today?... More
Mark Pittman, Bloomberg’s Bulldog, Dies at 52
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM
We were stunned to learn a couple of days ago of top Bloomberg investigative reporter Mark Pittman's death. As I... More
Wednesday Links: Interchange, Make Believe, Overstock Junket
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 07:11 PM
The New York Times continues its series on plastic, looking at how capping interchange fees on credit cards has played... More
The Press Underplays the Bad-Banks News
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 03:35 PM
The major business press underplays news from the FDIC that its troubled-banks list soared to more than 550 in the... More
The Big Money: Shoppers Beware
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 01:36 PM
Heidi N. Moore makes some fine points in a piece over at The Big Money that riffs off Best Buy... More
WSJ Goes Easy on Private Equity in Oz
By Ryan Chittum Nov 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Why does The Wall Street Journal think tax enforcement is "hostility"? That's what a news report on the front of... More
Tuesday Links: Sorkin, De-Indexing, the Google Problem
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2009 at 08:57 PM
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism shreds Andrew Ross Sorkin's column on Congress finally stiffening its spine today. The headline betrays... More
FT’s Wolf: Windfall Tax Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2009 at 04:37 PM
It's been somewhat baffling how little taxation has been discussed in the press as a possible answer to the problems... More
BAILOUT, STIMULUS — Your Essential Guide
In a specially commissioned study, The Audit offers a first-stop, comprehensive guide to the big federal spending programs. Read it. Love it. Use it daily.
By Jaimie Dougherty Nov 24, 2009 at 03:40 PM
We’re past the one-year marks of the financial crisis and the $700 billion bailout; next up, in February: the stimulus... More
A Too-Narrow Lens
By Dean Starkman Nov 24, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Zach Carter hits on something interesting about shareholder democracy in The Nation this week (disclosure-longer-than-this-post: I wrote a piece for... More
Murdoch, Microsoft, and Google
Getting paid for indexing news wouldn’t amount to much
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2009 at 05:01 AM
So Rupert Murdoch is indeed trying to squeeze the search engines for some cash, something we figured a couple of... More
BusinessWeek on Wall Street’s Nerve
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2009 at 04:29 PM
BusinessWeek's cover story this week on how Wall Street's shenanigans are threatening already-reeling local governments is a must-read. The lede... More
NYT’s Carr Finds Something New to Say about Oprah
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2009 at 09:46 AM
The New York Times's David Carr has a very smart column this morning analyzing Oprah Winfrey's massive, sustained business success.... More
Friday Links: Smart Money, Rodney King, Dilution
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2009 at 05:46 PM
Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was... More
Bloomberg Finds the Fed on Bubble Watch
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2009 at 05:31 PM
Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve... 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.
