The Audit
Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch
The NYT looks at the insider/outsider roles of Anita Dunn
By Ryan Chittum Oct 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times had an excellent story this weekend on Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who's got one foot... More
A CEO’s high-flying standards
Bloomberg reports on Abercrombie & Fitch’s Michael Jeffries
By Ryan Chittum Oct 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
We've seen $87,000 rugs and $6,000 shower curtains. But this fascinating Bloomberg story on Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO Michael Jeffries... More
Are newspaper audiences really shrinking?
A dialogue with Alan Mutter
By Dean Starkman Oct 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Alan Mutter’s post the other day—"The incredible shrinking newspaper audience"—got me thinking: is the newspaper audience really shrinking? So... More
Tuesdays with Andrew
Changing up a Dealbook ritual
By Dean Starkman Oct 16, 2012 at 04:54 PM
An Andrew Ross Sorkin column is beginning to take on a ritualistic feel. Sorkin is The New York Times... More
Audit Notes: a missing foreclosure figure, Denton, Brookes
How many “boomerang” buyers are there again? Gawker’s secret sauce, etc
By Dean Starkman Oct 15, 2012 at 07:05 AM
This Wall Street Journal story says buyers who went through foreclosure are already back in the market, buying houses again.They’re... More
Audit Notes: Google antitrust, the NYT on entrenched elites
By Ryan Chittum Oct 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters scoops that the Federal Trade Commission is leaning toward filing antitrust charges against Google for abusing its search monopoly... More
The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop
Emails between executives look like antitrust smoking guns
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
A tip of The Audit's green eyeshade to The New York Times for fighting to get this look inside the... More
A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC
The network’s tweet creates a misleading media narrative on the veep debate
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2012 at 03:57 AM
Whoever was running the CNBC Twitter feed last night didn't know the difference between a scientific poll and a Web... More
Audit Notes: fraud without fraudsters edition
Wells Fargo and JPMorgan shareholders, not executives, held accountable
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM
The Wall Street Journal fronts news that the feds are suing Wells Fargo for a decade of mortgage fraud that... More
Ask Obama This: What about housing?
What went wrong with the administration’s mortgage policies
By Ryan Chittum Oct 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Conspiracy Jack
Welch, fleeing Fortune and Reuters, takes his nonsense to the WSJ editorial page
By Felix Salmon Oct 10, 2012 at 05:15 PM
Why has Jack Welch doubled down on the false, inflammatory, and slanderous tweet that he sent out five minutes after... More
Audit Notes: The FT’s prospects, another victimized billionaire, Bain & Co.
By Ryan Chittum Oct 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Michael Wolff writes in The Guardian about the Financial Times's prospects now that Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino, a booster of... More
Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’
Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 01:51 PM
I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after... More
Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits
The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday.... More
Facing up to the high cost of free news
Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model?
By Dean Starkman Oct 8, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Pretty soon, proponents of free digital news will have to own up to the implications of their model. The... 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.
