The Audit
John R. Wilke, Longtime Journal Reporter, Dies at 54
Investigated the nexus between business and politics
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Longtime Wall Street Journal reporter John R. Wilke died of cancer this weekend and it's a big loss for financial... More
WSJ Exposes the New York Fed Chairman
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2009 at 01:57 PM
The Journal fronts a scoop that the chairman of the New York Fed not only held Goldman Sachs shares in... More
Chrysler Cramdown in Context
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2009 at 09:17 AM
If you read the coverage of the Chrysler bankruptcy a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal and The... More
Bloomberg Pushes Hard on Credit-Raters Story
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 04:32 PM
Bloomberg has done a good job keeping the credit raters in the spotlight, and its latest story shines a harsh... More
WSJ’s Free iPhone App: Rupert “Displeased”
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 04:02 PM
I wrote last week that The Wall Street Journal was screwing up by not charging for its swell new iPhone... More
NYT Muni-Bond Story Effects Quick Change
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM
The good Times story on small-town Tennessee losing big on derivatives is getting quick results. The state is planning "revolutionary"... More
The Economy Is Much Worse Than the Numbers Say
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture said a couple of days ago that the abysmal GDP numbers, down 6.1 percent... More
Remember Eminent Domain? The Journal Does
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Good for The Wall Street Journal for putting eminent domain back in the news. We haven't heard much about the... More
CDO Complexity in Context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Thought you were the only one who really doesn't understand collateralized debt obligations or, better yet, CDO-Squareds? Rest easy. No... More
Bloomberg: Schapiro’s FINRA Dumped Debt Early
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2009 at 09:29 AM
Bloomberg has a good scoop on FINRA's, the financial industry's self-regulator, suspiciously well-timed exit from the auction-rated securities market. FINRA... More
The FT, Germany, and the Weimar Republic
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2009 at 04:44 PM
This FT story seems like a reach to me. It reports that Germany is abuzz that the financial crisis resembles... More
WSJ Scoop on Citi’s $100 Million Man
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2009 at 01:41 PM
The Journal has a nice scoop that Citigroup is begging the government to let it pay big bonuses to "key... More
Yet Another Reason to Dislike Securitization
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2009 at 09:20 AM
The Rortybomb blog has an illuminating post on how the mortgage industry used credit scores to replace old-fashioned due diligence—and... More
Bronte Capital with a Major Scoop on Alleged Fraudster
By Ryan Chittum Apr 28, 2009 at 06:12 PM
John Hempton the excellent Aussie blogger who writes Bronte Capital appears to have a blockbuster of a scoop. A Connecticut... More
FDIC’s Pitch to End “Too Big to Fail”
By Ryan Chittum Apr 28, 2009 at 04:52 PM
Is it me or does it seem like FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair is about the only person in Washington who... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
