The Audit
Audit Notes: Bloomberg apologizes, Snow Fall re-imagined, Carr on Advance
Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has gotten a big black eye for snooping on its customers, and Editor-In-Chief Matt Winkler apologizes in a... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg snoops, Alan Abelson, Niall in denial
And the New York Post scoops
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The New York Post reports that Goldman Sachs complained to Bloomberg that its reporters were spying on it via the... More
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom
And that’s saying something
By Ryan Chittum May 9, 2013 at 01:14 PM
I'm still trying to reattach my jaw after reading this op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal today. It's shameful... More
Audit Notes: Farm labor fight, government debt, dumb-question headlines
Americans sue to get farm jobs from Mexican guest workers
By Ryan Chittum May 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times is good to go page one with a story on a fascinating lawsuit in Georgia that... More
The Advocate raids the Picayune
Major defections from the New Orleans paper intensify a newspaper war
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2013 at 04:36 PM
I wrote this last week about the South Louisiana newspaper war: "It will also not have a hard time poaching... More
Business Insider goes native
All but erasing the line between editorial and marketing
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Here's a Business Insider vertical called the "Future of Business." Let's hope it's not the future of news. The problems... More
The corrupt City culture behind the Libor scandal
The Wall Street Journal’s excellent investigation digs up the dirt
By Ryan Chittum May 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In the real word, big conspiracies are hard to maintain. People talk. Disagreements develop. Word tends to get out. But... More
The systemic plight of labor
A revealing Thomas Friedman column on 401(k)s
By Felix Salmon May 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM
It's May Day, and Henry Blodget is celebrating -- if that's the right word -- with three charts, of... More
Covering somebody who’s suing you
The WSJ sticks it to Sheldon Adelson by keeping a reporter on the beat
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Francine McKenna asked a good question on Twitter the other day about Wall Street Journal coverage of Sheldon Adelson's Las... More
Those immobile newspaper companies
Only 22 percent of a big sample even offer mobile products
By Dean Starkman May 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM
One of the truisms of digital journalism, and one that happens to be true, is that mobile is a big... More
An ink-stained stretch
Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Rob Curley, one of the more prominent digital journalists of the last decade, had just about had it with... More
The Advocate vs. the Times-Picayune
A New Orleans businessman fires up the newspaper war with the Newhouses
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2013 at 11:59 PM
The Louisiana newspaper war just got a lot more interesting. It's been a poorly kept secret in New Orleans media... More
The importance of counting stories
Schiffrin and Fagan quantify weaknesses in coverage of the stimulus
By Dean Starkman Apr 30, 2013 at 03:10 PM
One of the cold, hard facts of media punditry is that no one can read everything—or should be expected... More
Audit Notes: Awful on Bangladesh, the Kochtopus, US day care
Slate’s Matthew Yglesias gets it very wrong on workers and safety standards
By Ryan Chittum Apr 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
They were still pulling the hundreds of dead bodies out of the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh when Slate's Matthew... More
New York Times paywall growth slows
But it remains to be seen whether that’s a one-quarter blip or the new normal
By Ryan Chittum Apr 26, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The torrid growth in digital-only subscribers to The New York Times slowed sharply in the first quarter. Worse, advertising fell... 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.
