The Audit
Audit Notes: Newspapers v. Postal Service, student debt, taxes
By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The newspaper industry's situation is already apocalyptic, but the Associated Press reports it could be about to get worse. The... More
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation
When prices matter and when they don’t
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This SmartMoney post on "Why You're Not Getting a Raise" doesn't make sense. The lede: Didn’t get a raise this... More
The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan
Bogus numbers and rewritten history
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial board's Joseph Rago makes a whopper of an error in a column Tuesday extolling Paul... More
Audit Notes: Bill Black on CNBC, LAT eyes Ryan’s budget, robosigning
The ex-regulator might as well have been beamed in by the Curiosity rover
By Ryan Chittum Aug 16, 2012 at 02:44 AM
Bill Black goes on CNBC and shreds Maria Bartiromo and Bethany McLean on whether Goldman Sachs (and others) could and... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s taxes, NBC’s win, turning off the Web
By Ryan Chittum Aug 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Joe Nocera writes about the sharp choice facing voters in November, and so it is. But this strikes me as... More
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’
The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's no shortage of uncritical reporting on the notion that employers, and particularly manufacturers, can't find enough qualified workers even... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz
The Atlantic on what would be Mitt’s “Path to Prosperity”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 01:56 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien has the best snap financial analysis of Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as a running... More
CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either
A model story for the iffy skills-gap meme
By Ryan Chittum Aug 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Now it's CNNMoney's turn to spread the "can't find workers" meme. The headline reads "Northeast Indiana: Hundreds of factory jobs... More
Audit Notes: Google moves on copyright, The Daily Shoe, Olympics
As its business interest aligns with content producers
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 09:28 PM
Google will finally begin to penalize pirate sites in its search algorithm. What took so long? The Wall Street Journal... More
False balance on Romney’s bogus welfare reform attack
He said-she said from the FT, and a weak showing from the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This Financial Times coverage of Mitt Romney's false attack on an Obama administration move on welfare reform is a classic... More
Audit Notes: WSJ forgets climate change, Reuters results, Murdoch hides
A story on the record heat wave omits global warming
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 01:24 AM
The Wall Street Journal writes 640 words on how last month was the hottest July on record—and fails to mention... More
The New York Times prepares to leave the content farm
The sale of About.com would leave a pure-play newspaper company
By Ryan Chittum Aug 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times Company looks set to exit the content-farm business, with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reporting that the company... More
A welcome spotlight on trade deals
Reuters’s Johnston goes to Korea to look at the prospects of a new agreement
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In March, the Obama administration implemented a trade agreement with South Korea that it promised, implausibly, would create tens of... More
Audit Notes: Auditor conflicts, Frannie holdup, London Whale pressured
The latest money-laundering scandal points to problems with a business model
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2012 at 01:11 AM
Francine McKenna looks at Deloitte's role in the latest money-laundering scandal and how it points to conflicts of interest in... More
Audit Notes: Singing on Libor, another bank scandal, Star Tribune
The NYT on how banks are turning each other in
By Ryan Chittum Aug 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times, in a good page-one story, reports that giant banks are selling each other out trying to... 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.
