The Audit
Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task
The Post’s ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Nov 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry... More
Apples and oranges on Google and publishers
Print performance is bad enough without putting a thumb on the scale
By Ryan Chittum Nov 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Slate tells us that "Google ad revenue tops entire US print media industry" in the first six months of the... More
Audit Notes: WaPo on the Bain thing, deadbeat Forbes, hamster wheel
The Post’s revealing slip-up on the definition of swift-boating
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 08:06 PM
The Washington Post apparently doesn't understand just how toxic Wall Street and its even more rapacious cousin, private equity—not popular... More
Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus
JPMorgan CEO takes to CNBC for consolation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly... More
Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive
First-term bull market goes unmentioned after a November 7 stock dip
By Ryan Chittum Nov 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The stock market dive the day after President Obama was re-elected, dropping 320 points, or 2.4 percent. The Drudge Report,... More
Audit Notes: low-info billionaires, Trump the taker, Elizabeth Warren
Money apparently can’t buy a firm grip on reality
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
One of the things this election proved conclusively is that even billionaires can be low-information voters. Here's Bloomberg BusinessWeek on... More
WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign
A too-savvy take and flawed assumptions undermine some interesting reporting
By Ryan Chittum Nov 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal fronts an interesting but seriously flawed story this morning headlined "How Race Slipped Away From Romney."... More
Paywalls are a means, not an end
A Toronto Star columnist’s belligerence gets me thinking
By Dean Starkman Nov 7, 2012 at 11:02 AM
I like paywalls. I really do. I think it makes sense for newspapers that saw the bottom drop out... More
Audit Notes: FT denies Bloomberg report, Drudge stats, financialization
Misleading with bogus statistics
By Ryan Chittum Nov 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News reports that Pearson is considering putting the Financial Times up for sale, as Michael Wolff predicted a month... More
Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists
French publishing’s online revenues make the Americans look good
By Ryan Chittum Nov 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This New York Times story is nice on the coming attempt in Europe to get Google to pay content providers... More
Lessons from Sullivan-Silver fracas
When digital and institutional cultures collide
By Dean Starkman Nov 5, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Before the Margaret Sullivan/Nate Silver episode fades into history, there are a couple of meta lessons to be drawn from... More
Audit Notes: Stray on Silver, the new-old Black, ‘rocketing’ from a low base
Data-based journalism and its potential; an ex-mogul takes a flogging, etc.
By Dean Starkman Nov 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM
The best thing about the faux-controversy between New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan and political stats whiz Nate Silver... More
A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack
The wire’s poorly worded story is misread
By Ryan Chittum Nov 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mitt Romney's gotten in hot water with the nation's burgeoning horde of fact checkers by asserting that Jeep "is thinking... More
MSM: port in a storm
And social media was not as useful as I’d thought it’d be
By Dean Starkman Oct 31, 2012 at 07:35 AM
Sandy was the first natural disaster I can remember experiencing not as a reporter but as Joe Reader/Viewer. (I’ve... More
Bloomberg digs up more on Romney’s tax avoidance
This loophole used the Mormon church’s tax-exempt status to defer bills
By Ryan Chittum Oct 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns beyond two years in which he was already actively campaigning for president, and... 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.
