The Audit
Audit Notes: WSJ Live, scot free, Martin Feldstein
Lucrative video streams soar at the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Sep 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray says the paper's WSJ Live video efforts are growing at a torrid... More
The Facebook blame game
The NYT’s Sorkin shifts focus from the bankers
By Ryan Chittum Sep 8, 2012 at 02:38 AM
Like Jon Weil, I've got little sympathy for the folks who speculated on Facebook at $38, thinking it would double... More
Audit Notes: Journal Register, Clinton and ‘can’t find workers,’ AP flop
The bankrupt company’s owner isn’t doing well itself
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Read Martin Langeveld's super-sharp take for the Nieman Lab on what the Journal Register bankruptcy means and what might be... More
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again
Takeaways for the newspaper business
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday, John Paton announced that Journal Register Company is filing for bankruptcy for the second time in three years. That’s... More
Audit Notes: NYT yacht coverage, Diluted tech stocks, CNBC
How stock options obscure what companies like Facebook are really worth
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times takes a tough look at a pressing issue in our struggling economy: "How to Keep Yachting... More
Audit Notes: blame the borrowers, Walmart cashiers, newspaper prices
The Democratic Party platform on mortgage issues
By Ryan Chittum Sep 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Henry Blodget somehow thinks that "everyone has spent the last five years trying to blame the housing crash on every... More
The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked
Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:07 AM
The Wall Street Journal's coverage of Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday, which was packed with one... More
Audit Notes: Wall Street sheriffs, preprints, Globalization and workers
Supposedly in a “race to investigate, indict, subpoena and fine”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal would have you believe Wall Street is running scared from all the financial cops in New... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s hacking scandal, revolving door, Obama’s AMA
Two more arrests, including one for computer hacking
By Ryan Chittum Aug 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM
As Rupert Murdoch tells the world to go see Dinesh D'Souza's "scary" 2016 propaganda (read my 2010 takes on the... More
CNBC: kid gloves for bankers, boxing gloves for bank critics
Interviews with Barofsky, Spitzer, and Krugman underscore the network’s capture
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 12:13 PM
We're all for aggressively skeptical interviewing—I've often wished we could import Brits to do our presidential interviews, for instance. But... More
Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance
GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Ezra Klein, anticipating a lot of Republicans disingenuously blaming Obama for the national debt, points to a Center on Budget... More
The NYT’s weak coverage of rental-car consolidation
With Hertz/Dollar Thrifty deal, three companies would have 94 percent of the market
By Ryan Chittum Aug 28, 2012 at 11:12 PM
The rental car business is a highly concentrated industry controlled by four companies. It's about to get much more concentrated,... More
Audit Notes: GOP gold bugs, too big to fail, Niall Ferguson
The myth of hard money
By Ryan Chittum Aug 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Republicans have put the gold standard (or at least a commission to study the idea) back in their party's... More
Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright
Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy
By Ryan Chittum Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy:... More
WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’
A mess of a story on Facebook
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a "give-it-away-free approach" that has hurt share... 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.
