The Audit
Official Secrets of the Financial Crisis
Huge public money changing hands in deals that remain undisclosed; part of a widening shroud over government
By Dean Starkman Jun 4, 2013 at 07:05 AM
Jon Weil's column the other day was one you really did not want to miss and points to wider... More
Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’
In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself
By Dean Starkman Jun 3, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms. Today, it's rare for reporters, or even former reporters, to speak up about... More
Audit Notes: Goldman dissembles, Corporate taxes, Silicon Valley
Bloomberg View shreds the bank’s too-big-to-fail apology
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Goldman Sachs issued a report recently claiming to debunk the fact that too-big-to-fail banks like itself get implicit taxpayer subsidies... More
No, it’s not another housing bubble
Hysteria in pockets of the press over a long-awaited recovery
By Ryan Chittum May 30, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The top story in all the major papers on Wednesday was news that home prices jumped 11 percent in the... More
Promiscuous media
Publishing content where it fits best
By Felix Salmon May 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Two years ago, when I wrote about the death of blogging, I contrasted the decline of old-fashioned reverse-chronological blogs with... More
Fortune goes long on Amazon and taxes
How the retailer manipulated a broken government system to get an unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum May 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
I've been following the Amazon tax-avoidance story for years now, and I haven't seen it better-told than it is on... More
Audit Notes: The IRS story in context, Silicon Valley oligarchs
Necessary context from ProPublica and the NYT on the overblown scandal
By Ryan Chittum May 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The bulk of the IRS scandal press coverage has been seriously devoid of the kind of context that tells readers... More
Bloggers for hire on a penny-stock pump and dump
The Motley Fool digs into a brazen and successful scheme to manipulate share prices
By Ryan Chittum May 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Motley Fool's Brian Richards posts a fascinating look inside the pump and dump world of penny-stock promoters, reporting how... More
OKC’s TV news excels in another disaster
Life-saving information before the tornado, essential reporting afterward
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news... More
How technology redefines norms
Reasonable resistance to the upending of cultural mores is not “technopanic”
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass. The Victorian attitudes... More
Audit Notes: WSJ on the IRS, countering Kinsley, Cramer gets an ‘F’
The paper mishandles news on the Tea Party targeting story
By Ryan Chittum May 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Rupert Murdoch must have loved his Wall Street Journal front page on Saturday. Editors splashed this headline across the top... More
Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story
The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street... More
The other IRS target: the press
The nonprofit news experience undermines the Tea Party targeting outrage
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Conservatives are howling about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups applying for nonprofit tax exemptions. Well, welcome to our world.... More
Audit Notes: Student loan profits, paywall incentives, postal banking
The Huffington Post on a government bonanza
By Ryan Chittum May 15, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour comes up with a great angle on news that the Education Department expects to make... More
The Bloomberg terminal scandal
Not nearly in the Murdoch hacking league, but it requires a cultural shift
By Ryan Chittum May 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Bloomberg terminal-snooping story is a serious ethics problem, but I've read some awfully hysterical takes on it in the... 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.
