The Audit
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
Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment
The former GE CEO, still a business press hero
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Former GE CEO Jack Welch made waves last week claiming—with zero evidence—that the Obama administration manipulated the unemployment report that... More
Bleacher Report and the race to the bottom
SF Weekly rips Turner Broadcasting’s nearly $200 million purchase
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2012 at 01:32 PM
Bleacher Report is a sort of Demand Media of sports, a content farm engineered to get search engine visits with... More
Audit Notes: Romney and taxes, prison phone racket, WSJ
The Atlantic eyes the Republican’s corporate tax plan
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Nobody can figure out what exactly Mitt Romney wants to do with taxes. His plan is mathematically impossible, and Wednesday... More
Audit Notes: Mansion, inequality and the crash, FT on Schneiderman
By Ryan Chittum Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The business press continues to roll out the 0.1 percent porn. Now it's The Wall Street Journal launching a new... More
Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom
A columnist’s misleading economic history
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:40 PM
Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush... More
Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value
The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care
By Ryan Chittum Oct 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post is getting into the hospice business, which prompted a few too many obvious jokes about death 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.
