The Audit
McDonald’s through management’s eyes, in the WSJ
Rude employees who, oh by the way, make poverty wages
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that internal McDonald's documents say that the fast food chain's customer service is "broken"—that it... More
Populism and financial crises
A Columbia professor’s thesis on Canadian and American banking gets credulous WSJ treatment
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal credulously reports on a new paper by Columbia B-school professor Charles Calomiris on why we have... More
Audit Notes: The paywall problem, Thatcherism, Googlebots
Keeping out the youth of America
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Alan Mutter has this to say about the pitfalls of paywalls: The case for paywalls would seem to be compelling:... More
AP’s pension probe misses the broad view
Good reporting is undermined by a lack of context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM
The Associated Press has a tough three-part investigation out this week looking at corruption in an old Washington state pension... More
The disruptive potential of native advertising
It’s ad agencies that should worry. But will it scale?
By Felix Salmon Apr 10, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Andrew Rice delivers 6,000 words on BuzzFeed in the latest NY Mag, which means he has the space to... More
Audit Notes: Not so scammy, engineer world, Americans’ low taxes
A Bloomberg View column’s alleged scamming of the FDIC looks perfectly legal
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2013 at 10:40 AM
William D. Cohan roughs up newly former SEC Chief Mary Schapiro and former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder in a... More
Newspaper revenue: good news, bad news
Mostly bad as revenue stops its free-fall but ads remain weak
By Dean Starkman Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Newspaper Association of America takes some comfort, and with some reason, in the news that newspaper revenues declined... More
Audit Notes: Reuters in court, 97-month car loans, the missing 000s
A flurry of legal activity for the wire service
By Ryan Chittum Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters has been in the legal news a bit lately, and not in a good way. First, the Journal reported... More
Investigative collaboration, cross-border edition
A landmark series on offshore tax havens from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
By Dean Starkman Apr 8, 2013 at 11:05 AM
A good sign that your investigation has hit the mark is when law enforcement agencies start demanding to see... More
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
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.
