The Audit
Audit Notes: Plain Dealer, Silicon Valley openness, debt and borrowing
Cleveland execs trot out the Advance Publications talking points
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose slogan not so long ago was "Miss a day, miss a lot," will go to... More
Advance to nowhere
Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Advance Publications's announcement today on the future of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was less dramatic than the one a year... More
Digital ads and grains of salt
Assessing recent claims
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Some data are better than no data, I suppose, but it always pays to be skeptical when companies disclose... More
Revolving door spins for Schapiro and Breuer
Former SEC and DOJ officials cash in
By Ryan Chittum Apr 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
So you make big bucks as partner at a top law firm at the "nexus of Washington and Wall Street."... More
Three things to like about the Times OSHA exposé
And one thing not to like at all
By Dean Starkman Apr 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Ian Urbina's magisterial probe in The New York Times of OSHA's failure to police long-term health risks—like harmful fumes caused... More
BusinessWeek’s billion-dollar boo-boo
A poor piece spreads bogus news about Amazon’s Goodreads acquisition
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2013 at 05:32 PM
Bloomberg BusinessWeek makes itself look silly today, running a speculative piece on how much Amazon paid for its latest acquisition,... More
Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model
Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Gambit's Kevin Allman reports that the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge bureau chief is out after six months. My long... More
Paywalls rise
Breaking out sticks as well as carrots to get readers to pay
By Felix Salmon Mar 28, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's paywall season right now: The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Telegraph, the Sun—all have recently announced plans... More
Audit Notes: Columbia navel-gazing edition
A tech site takes down Michael Wolff’s thoughts on Twitter
By Ryan Chittum Mar 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's always fun to see a Michael Wolff trolling get demolished. This one's at the hands of PandoDaily's Hamish McKenzie.... More
IPOs for the masses
A global business leader wants IPOs for his countrymen, in Quartz
By Ryan Chittum Mar 26, 2013 at 06:50 AM
When Quartz launched, it said that its "mission is to serve today's new class of global business leaders" who "have... More
Audit Notes: Different than you and me, Google as utility
Political discourse disproportionately follows the whims of the wealthy
By Ryan Chittum Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Los Angeles Times runs a fascinating op-ed by Benjamin I. Page and Larry M. Bartels on the policy preferences... More
Personal finance experts of the day
Some baffling editorial judgment in the The Wall Street Journal
By Ryan Chittum Mar 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Experts: Should People Buy Long-Term-Care Insurance? That's the headline of a The Wall Street Journal article out yesterday--the kind... More
Audit Notes: WaPo hamster wheel, weather.com, bureaucracy’s upside
“At least a dozen pieces of content per day”
By Ryan Chittum Mar 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Poynter's Andrew Beaujon reports this internal want ad for the Washington Post's once-vaunted Style section: This blogger should be able... More
WaPo will, finally, charge online
Anti-paywall forces routed in the US; attention shifts to Kings Cross
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2013 at 03:55 PM
The Washington Post is making it official: It will put up a metered paywall sometime this summer, the paper reports.... More
The Cyprus bailout fiasco
Get ready for a week (if we’re lucky) of euro crisis news
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The major news over the weekend was the continuing incompetence of Europe's policymakers, who seem determined to make the euro... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
