The Audit
Audit Notes: Boston Globe bids, WSJ flops at BuzzFeed, News Corp.
A 94 percent fall in value over twenty years
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Bloomberg News gets some details on The New York Times's impending sale of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram &... More
Oxford on paying for news online
Young people are far more likely to pony up than older readers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism put out a digital-news survey recently that's well worth your time. It... More
The Best Business Writing 2013
Introducing our second anthology of the top business journalism of the year
By Dean Starkman Jun 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Compiling the Best Business Writing series each year reliably brings the pleasures of the eclectic and unexpected. But it also... More
Audit Notes: HuffPost terrible on Hastings, Fox touts, Advance PR
Terrible news judgment adds fuel to conspiracy theories about the journalist’s death
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Huffington Post publishes a deeply irresponsible story on the death of the journalist Michael Hastings with this headline: Was... More
The IRS scandal unwinds
And Peggy Noonan pushes crazy conspiracy theories in the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The IRS Tea Party "scandal" has taken a couple of body blows in the last week. First, it emerged that... More
The newspaper plunge slows
But paywall strategies and new business are still not enough to offset print ad declines
By Ryan Chittum Jun 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The newspaper industry found an extra $6 billion in its couch cushions last year. That's not new revenue, unfortunately—just newly... More
Tocqueville and regulation
Niall Ferguson pines for the laissez-faire days of a relatively primitive society
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Dean Baker slices up Niall Ferguson's latest op-ed in The Wall Street Journal—this one about how over-regulated the U.S. supposedly... More
The ax falls at The Oregonian (UPDATED)
The decline of what was one of the better regional newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Not that long ago, The Oregonian was one of the better news organizations in the country. In 2008, Editor &... More
Audit Notes: Fox tout, Newhouses’ interior decorators, stocks and flows
MarketWatch outs a corporate cousin’s contributor as a shill
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
MarketWatch's Charles Jaffe busts a contributor to corporate cousin Fox Business for taking big bucks to tout penny stocks. Jaffe... More
The Advance Publications name game
The old Newhouse Pledge and the company’s corporate shuffle
By Ryan Chittum Jun 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Oregonian is about to get Newhouse'd. As the billionaires' Advance Publications has rolled out its newspaper-liquidation plan across the... More
A new cross-border tax-haven database and its significance
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists pushes into new journalism territory
By Dean Starkman Jun 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists hit the mother lode when it published the first of its dozens of exposés... More
Exclusive survey: A year out, Times-Pic downsizing leaves bitterness, scorn among ex-, current employees
Harsh words for management and the Newhouse family
By Rebecca Theim Jun 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
A year ago this week, about 200 now-former employees of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, including almost half the newsroom, learned... More
Tide goes out on News Corp.’s newspapers
The Times of London newsroom cuts staff as its parent company splits in two
By Dean Starkman Jun 12, 2013 at 06:55 AM
It's not a great sign that the Times of London is laying off 20 editorial staffers just as it parent... More
Nonprofits are still a drop in the news bucket
And there isn’t a growth story
By Dean Starkman Jun 10, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Yes, as Kira Goldenberg writes, the most remarkable finding of the big new Pew study on nonprofit news organizations... More
‘The future is medieval’
A discussion with the scholars behind the “Gutenberg Parenthesis,” a sweeping theory of digital—and journalism—transformation
By Dean Starkman Jun 7, 2013 at 08:05 AM
What follows is an interview and discussion I had in Odense, Denmark, with Thomas Pettitt and Lars Ole Sauerberg, two... 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.
