The Audit
Audit Notes: News Corp./Wall Street Journal edition
Gerard Baker takes the reins of The Wall Street Journal
By Ryan Chittum Dec 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Robert Thomson will become CEO of the news-focused News Corp. (the other new company will be called Fox Group) after... More
The impossibility of tablet-native journalism
Why Murdoch’s The Daily didn’t make it
By Felix Salmon Dec 3, 2012 at 01:45 PM
The Daily has reached the end of its life: as News Corp. splits in two, its losses, which might have... More
Anti-paywall dead-enders
Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese Army to the remote Philippine Island of Lubang with instructions... More
Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall
Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
By Ryan Chittum Nov 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The investigative journalist Roddy Boyd has some excellent reporting on a multilevel marketing company (read: pyramid scheme) called ViSalus: ViSalus... More
Hot air Rises Above on CNBC
An anchor pins a minor dip in stocks on the TV appearance of a minor politician
By Ryan Chittum Nov 30, 2012 at 12:41 AM
Rise Above, if you're among the 99.95 percent of the country who don't watch CNBC on a given day, is... More
Audit Notes: WaPo on Avandia, giving away the store, plutocrats
Report shows how drug research is corrupted by corporate money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey has another outstanding story in his series on the Avandia drug scandal at GlaxoSmithKline and... More
Audit Notes: FT’s Fairhead is out; BofA CEO stonewalls; Rent a Quote
But Pearson says the paper is not for sale.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
FT Group CEO Rona Fairhead got denied the top job at Pearson and so is stepping down as chairman and... More
Amazon sharecroppers
The Seattle Times on the hometown giant’s uneasy relationship with its merchants
By Ryan Chittum Nov 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times has another good story on Amazon, this time reporting on the hometown giant's lopsided relationship with its... More
The Washington Post needs a paywall—now
A strategic error needs to be reversed, stat
By Dean Starkman Nov 26, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The not-so-gentle ejection of Marcus Brauchli from the top editor’s chair at The Washington Post has cast a bright... More
Audit Notes: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten
The magazine’s picks for future Apple and Microsoft CEOs go awry immediately
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Fortune peered into its crystal ball for the October 29 issue and came up with four "best bets" on who's... More
Audit Notes: the free model, Coulson and Brooks, another DOJ stunt
A musician writes a compelling business argument against Pandora
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The free model isn't just a failure for newspapers. It doesn't work in music either, as this terrific Pitchfork piece... More
Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy
Corporate America’s house organ starts an anti-political political campaign
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2012 at 02:57 PM
Any time you see Wall Street CEOs and CNBC campaigning for what they call the common good, it's worth raising... More
Audit Notes: marginal taxes, a redesign for core readers, Murdoch
An NYT’s anecdote’s confusion goes uncorrected
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times flubs some reporting on how investors and well off people are bracing for higher tax rates:... More
Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact
ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to... More
Audit Notes: Papacare, Post problem, trade reporting
Forbes finds Papa John’s Obamacare math doesn’t add up
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2012 at 03:08 AM
Papa John's CEO John Schnatter has been carping for some time that Obamacare will add 10 to 14 cents to... 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.
