The Audit
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
Poor coverage of Google’s Street View scandal settlement
Incomplete accounts make the story more favorable to Mountain View
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Google paid $7 million to 38 states earlier this week to settle its Street View privacy scandal. This was a... More
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
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.
