The Audit
NYT Goes A1 on TBTF
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2009 at 04:19 PM
Too big to fail makes the front page of The New York Times this morning, which reports that Congress, specifically... More
Only One to Charge Online, Only One to Gain Paying Customers
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Congratulations to The Wall Street Journal, which now reclaims the title, held by USA Today for years, of the nation's... More
WSJ: New Banking Sheriff in Town, Again
By Dean Starkman Oct 26, 2009 at 09:50 AM
The Journal this morning offers a classic beat-sweetener, a profile of a tough new banking regulator appointed to clean up... More
About Those Chamber of Commerce “Members”
By Ryan Chittum Oct 26, 2009 at 08:52 AM
Our Greg Marx does a good job looking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce member-count dispute, which has laid bare... More
Friday Links: Foreboding, Cell-less, anti-Moores
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2009 at 06:11 PM
The FT's Gillian Tett feels a "sense of foreboding" about the current "rally fueled by cheap money," otherwise known as... More
Much Ado About Not Much on Pay
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2009 at 05:43 PM
Wall Street pay has been all over the news the last couple of days, leading the Journal and the Times... More
Cornerbacks and WSJ Editorial Writers
By Dean Starkman Oct 23, 2009 at 04:00 PM
Moreover, some of the Senators seem worried that repealing Glass-Steagall might open up markets to terrible and maybe unforeseen risks.... More
Making Honest Choices at Fortune
By Dean Starkman Oct 23, 2009 at 10:10 AM
The granddaddy of business magazines says it's cutting the number of issues per year to 18 from 25, in anticipation... More
The High Bubble Era in Retrospect
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2009 at 09:36 AM
"A growing family with a lot of debt. A young couple with no down payment. A business owner whose income... More
Thursday Links: BW’s History, Lipman?, Job Scramble
By Ryan Chittum Oct 22, 2009 at 07:09 PM
Mediaite has a swell feature on BusinessWeek covers through the decades, from the days when it was called The Business... More
Goodwill Hunting at BusinessWeek
By Ryan Chittum Oct 22, 2009 at 04:19 PM
BusinessWeek has an interesting piece on the accounting funny business companies employ to smooth out their earnings or to patch... More
Circulation Surpasses Ad Revenue at NYT
By Ryan Chittum Oct 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Back in July, The Audit noted that a big shift had happened in the news business. Circulation revenue was growing... More
Wednesday Links: “Read and Weep,” Break Up, WSJ Excuses
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Uh oh, Bank of America. Some pretty damning emails leaked out of Congress yesterday about what BofA executives knew about... More
WaPo on Hard Times in Bank City USA
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2009 at 07:20 PM
The Washington Post has a very good story on the fall of Charlotte's once-mighty banking industry and the impact on... More
Twitter, Facebook Get Paid. What About the Press?
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2009 at 01:52 PM
So Microsoft's Bing search engine is going to pay Twitter and Facebook to have their users' posts show up in... 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
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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.
