The Audit
Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS
The agency hamstrings a program designed to bring in tips on tax evasion
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is... More
Audit Notes: Smart Money, NYT CEO, sushi chefs and nola.com
Dow Jones lays off staff and goes all-digital with its personal-finance magazine
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 09:22 PM
Dow Jones is shutting down Smart Money magazine, laying off most of the staff and going to a digital-only format... More
Audit Radio: Cleveland edition
Dean Starkman joins a panel of Ohio journalists on the future of newspapers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Audit Chief Dean Starkman talked about the future of newspapers on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCRN this morning. "Sound of Ideas"... More
Audit Notes: The U-6ers, Jamie’s corporate welfare, The Guardian’s future
The NYT looks at those with not enough work
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
I like this Michael Cooper piece in The New York Times on the folks who don't show up in the... More
How Jonah Lehrer should blog
The art of glossing the news
By Felix Salmon Jun 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM
In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you’re an... More
Another A1 Times-Picayune press release
This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More
Audit Notes: Echoes of the 1930s, gilded bubble, access journalism
As Greece crumbles, extremism and violence rises
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 01:55 AM
On the echoes of the 1930s tip, the University of Athens's Aristides Hatzis writes in the Financial Times: Despite the... More
Microsoft’s live-action press release
Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet
By Ryan Chittum Jun 19, 2012 at 08:00 AM
Yesterday, Microsoft got a bunch of tech journalists to go to Hollywood for what it promised would be a major... More
Audit Notes: Very profitable staff cuts; Dimon’s crisis bet; Obama and trade
Time Inc. squeezes Sports Illustrated for more money
By Ryan Chittum Jun 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Edmund Lee gets a great quote from the editor of Time Incorporated's Sports Group, Terry McDonell, on why Sports... More
The Times-Picayune’s front-page press release
Advance Publication’s Alabama papers take even worse hits than New Orleans
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
You know the backlash is serious when the Times-Picayune wraps itself in Katrina and puts a press release/editorial by the... More
New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel
The fall of the Times-Picayune
By Ryan Chittum Jun 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market... More
Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego
ProPublica documents JPMorgan Chase’s extensive ties to a docile Senate Banking Committee
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM
ProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill... More
Introducing Best Business Writing 2012
By Dean Starkman Jun 13, 2012 at 04:00 PM
Columbia Journalism Review Books has just published Best Business Writing 2012, featuring pieces by Paul Krugman, Martin Wolf, Matt Taibbi,... More
Audit Notes: bad banks edition
Too big to behave or to fail
By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Gretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions... More
Owens’s straw man army
A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time
By Ryan Chittum Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Howard Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its... 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.
