The Audit
Audit Notes: Bagged Men, whistleblowers, Times-Picayune
Rupert Murdoch, prepare your checkbook
By Ryan Chittum Apr 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple asks the New York Post's "Bag Men" to sue the paper for libel: So journalists... More
The fight over Internet sales taxes
The corporate and ideological motives behind the opposition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2013 at 10:30 AM
We're more than 20 years into the mainstream Web era—20 years!—and Congress is finally seriously considering force retailers to collect... More
Audit Notes: WSJ goes long, Valleywag, Boston Globe paywall
With a Boston bombings story, the paper shows what it can still do
By Ryan Chittum Apr 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
This Wall Street Journal piece on the suspected Boston terrorists is a deeply reported (18 bylines and taglines) and convincing... More
The social media tail mustn’t wag the MSM dog
A crowdsourced hunt for the bombers was unambiguously counterproductive
By Felix Salmon Apr 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Boston bombing and subsequent manhunt was in many ways the first big interactive news story. It wasn't the first... More
On a wild night of news, a remarkable press performance
While Reddit fails again
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2013 at 07:49 AM
Last night was one of the wildest nights of news I can ever recall. With Boston already on edge in... More
The New York Post’s disgrace
The paper smears a kid and a young man on its front page as possible terrorists
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
At some point, you even have to hold the tabloids to account. That point is now with the New York... More
Pulitzer surprise: the Sun Sentinel’s rise to a gold medal
How a dark-horse series on police speeding won for public service
By Roy J. Harris Jr. Apr 18, 2013 at 03:00 PM
In this year's American Society of News Editors, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and Scripps Howard competitions, Fort Lauderdale's Sun Sentinel... More
Audit Notes: Retail life, statutes of limitations, newspaper bulls
CBS MoneyWatch looks at how shops jerk workers around
By Ryan Chittum Apr 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
CBS News's MoneyWatch is good to take a hard look at life for workers in the retail industry, which not... More
Paywalls did not cause the fall of WSJ longform
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal misses the Murdoch
By Ryan Chittum Apr 17, 2013 at 06:30 PM
Alexis Madrigal asks whether The Wall Street Journal's paywall is responsible for its turning away from longform journalism. That one's... More
Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror
Its Pulitzer shutout reaches six years
By Dean Starkman Apr 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Stop me if you've heard this one: Old man goes to shul, prays: "Dear God, just once, let me... More
The problem with financial literacy as a fix
Helaine Olen on enabling blame-the-victims apologies
By Ryan Chittum Apr 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Helaine Olen has an eye-opening column in The Guardian on the concept of financial literacy and how it's misused to... More
Audit Notes: Reinflating the bubble, Nader in the WSJ
The LA Times reports on a new rush in Southern California
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a good and disturbing look at how the LA housing market is already showing signs... More
60 Minutes’s Chevron pollution story springs a leak
An on-camera expert recants in a court statement
By Dean Starkman Apr 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Three years ago, we weighed in on a bitter media dispute pitting Chevron against 60 Minutes over a piece... More
The native matrix
Making critical distinctions
By Felix Salmon Apr 15, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Jay Rosen asks, reasonably, that people start drawing useful distinctions between buzzy terms like content marketing, sponsored content, native advertising,... More
Audit Notes: WSJ and labor, Tumblr-speak, not the London whale
Getting it right on a nursing-home worker shortage
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2013 at 08:30 AM
I got on the Journal last week for completely missing labor's point of view in a story on cranky McDonald's... 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.
