The Audit
Asking the wrong question about Dell
A WSJ columnist misses the point on the CEO-led buyout
By David Cay Johnston Mar 14, 2013 at 04:46 PM
Holman Jenkins' column in The Wall Street Journal on the proposed management buyout of Dell shareholders is an excellent example... More
Audit Notes: Weil embarrasses DOJ, Business Insider, revolving door
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil makes an amazing catch on the latest Ernst & Young wrist slap from the Justice Department, this... More
Joe Nocera’s big (old) Goldman scoop
NYT’s revealing reporting gets almost no play elsewhere
By Ryan Chittum Mar 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Whoever thought the plight of executives and investors at eToys--one of the signal flops of the high tech bubble era--would... More
An ugly bit of blame-the-borrowers
Predatory lending is real, contra RealClearMarkets, and it particularly targets minorities
By Ryan Chittum Mar 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets and Forbes really didn't like my take last week on that awful Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover. Here's... More
The Rise of Longform Newspaper Writing, 1950s-2003
Fink and Schudson document the rise of “contexual journalism” before the longform meltdown.
By Dean Starkman Mar 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Katherine Fink and Michael Schudson have a fantastic new paper called "The Rise of Contextual Journalism, 1950s-2003," to be... More
Audit Notes: Noonan forgets the stimulus, native ads, Mary Jo White
The WSJ columnist says Obama should have done things he actually did
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's hard to pick the worst sentence in Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column this weekend, so let me just... More
Audit Notes: paywall time machine, Times-Picayune, Elizabeth Warren
What digital subscriptions could have done for newspapers a decade ago
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Ken Doctor writes a fantastic piece for Nieman Lab on charging for news. He notes that leaky paywalls are working... More
Dow 36,000, just around the corner (again)
Fourteen years after an infamous book and still 22,000 points down
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Back in 1999, two American Enterprise Institute guys, James K. Glassman and Kevin Hassett, wrote a book called Dow 36,000:... More
Audit Notes: too big to prosecute, the techno-utopian backlash
Attorney General Holder admits Wall Street gigantism deters Justice charges
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2013 at 07:40 AM
Lanny Breuer all but admitted it, but his former boss Eric Holder went all the way yesterday, telling Congress the... More
Content economics, part 2: payments
How and why people fork over money for media
By Felix Salmon Mar 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Apologies for the delay between part 1 and this: I wanted to wait until Amanda Palmer's TED talk appeared... More
Audit Notes: NYT softballs, ad inventory, the future of the LAT
The Justice Department’s Lanny Breuer gets another weak exit interview
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM
How many parting kisses can outgoing senior administration officials collect from the press? Lanny Breuer, already given the puff treatment... More
The battle of New Orleans
Is Advance Publications securing the future of local news—or needlessly sacrificing it?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In May, as the New Orleans Times-Picayune put to bed an epic, eight-part investigation into Louisiana's prison system, its... More
More on that BusinessWeek cover
A firestorm over its unintentionally inflammatory art
By Ryan Chittum Feb 28, 2013 at 11:45 PM
My post on this unfortunate Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover touched off a wave of fury on the intertubes this morning. First,... More
A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line
Minorities as greedy grotesqueries fueling a new housing bubble
By Ryan Chittum Feb 28, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a lot edgier than its predecessor, at least where design is concerned. Sometimes it's too edgy, like... More
Commercialization of the academy: diet supplements edition
The LAT’s Hiltzik on professors who hawk Herbalife
By Ryan Chittum Feb 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Herbalife story is a business-press feast. You've got warring billionaires, the words "Ponzi scheme" being thrown around, a televised... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
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.
