The Audit
Audit Notes: California’s Enron echoes, Sox toolbox, the Dow’s decade
LAT on allegations that JPMorgan manipulated markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
— Michael Hiltzik had a good column two weeks ago on allegations that JPMorgan Chase manipulated California energy markets: The... More
The Washington Post’s not-so-good earnings report
The paper puts a positive spin on another poor quarter
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2012 at 03:39 PM
Here's how the Washington Post covers its namesake parent company's dismal second-quarter earnings report: Washington Post Co. second-quarter profit up... More
Audit Notes: Taibbi on TBTF, the paranoid rich, Olympics
An NYT op-ed elides some critical context
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It's unclear why The New York Times is running op-eds on finance from a guy who is still operating under... More
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop
A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times posts a flacktacular Business Day piece on a new hedge fund named Falcon Edge. This new... More
Audit Notes: News Corp.’s board, Romney’s taxes, NBC’s Olympics
The paper reports prosecutors are examining whether to charge Murdoch’s directors
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Guardian's Nick Davis, with David Leigh, has another stunner on the hacking scandal. They report that Britain's Crown... More
Audit Notes: Twitter’s censors, NYT apology, Craigslist’s aggregators
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Twitter gave itself a serious black eye today, censoring a journalist for reporting the easy-to-figure-out corporate email address of NBC... More
Digital goes first at the FT (Updated)
The Financial Times now has more digital subscribers than print ones; running the numbers
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Like them or not, newspaper paywalls continue better-than-expected performances, the latest good (for some of us) news coming from The... More
Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked
A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More
A Washington reporter’s review of Barofsky’s book is unintentionally revealing
Shield’s up!
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Jackie Calmes's review of Neil Barofsky’s new book, Bailout, to me, says so much more about Washington press culture... More
Audit Notes: Macabre probe, Wall Street lethargy, linkless hype busters, ‘Chairman of the Fed,’ etc.
A compelling cross-border probe into the body parts business
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM
“When my daughter-in-law touched it, she said that his foot was empty.” That’s right. Someone stole the inside... More
A WSJ ‘A-hed’ covers the same topic twice
Tapping on the glass of a barometer for quality
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2012 at 08:20 AM
Back when News Corp. took over Dow Jones & Co., which some of us didn’t think was a particularly... More
Audit Notes: UK edition
On hack-gate and the paper that broke it open
By Dean Starkman Jul 24, 2012 at 04:27 PM
Make no mistake about it: the criminal charges unveiled yesterday against former top News Corp. officials mark a major... More
Audit Notes: NOLA stirrings, Libor’s victim, Honda-driving billionaire, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 23, 2012 at 06:25 PM
—With the news market in New Orleans suddenly up for grabs—thanks to Advance Publications's decision to slash the newsroom... More
When a news executive sits on a bank’s board
The FT Group’s Fairhead is a director of troubled HSBC
By Ryan Chittum Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It’s unusual—rare, even—for the CEO of a major financial news and information concern to serve on the board of directors... More
The WSJ on the fall of Nokia
The company that foresaw an iPhone-like device in 2000 is left in the dust
By Ryan Chittum Jul 20, 2012 at 07:26 PM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story on the fall of Finnish cellphone giant Nokia—the kind of deeply... 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.
