The Audit
Audit Notes: Crisis Panel Has Teeth?, Mortgage Fraud, Corporate Size
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2011 at 08:44 PM
Shahien Nasiripour of The Huffington Post scoops that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may just have some impact after all:... More
Resistance Is Futile for Alabama’s White Collar Criminals
The Journal takes an excellent look at tough state regulator Joseph Borg
By Ryan Chittum Jan 24, 2011 at 01:36 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a superb Money & Investing profile this morning of an Alabama securities regulator who makes... More
Don’t Forget Massey Energy’s Long History of Violations
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2011 at 08:54 PM
Federal investigators' preliminary report is out on the April coal mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. Was it... More
Pearlstein: On China Trade, an Eye for an Eye
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Of all the commentary this week on China, none got to the heart of the problem anywhere near as well... More
The NYT Throws Gasoline on the State-Bankruptcy Flames
By Felix Salmon Jan 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Talk of introducing legislation allowing states to declare bankruptcy began in earnest in November. A speech by Newt Gingrich was... More
Inc.’s Excellent Story on Entrepreneurship in Norway
By Felix Salmon Jan 20, 2011 at 01:18 PM
Max Chafkin has a fantastic story in Inc magazine about how to structure an economy so as to encourage entrepreneurship,... More
Audit Notes: The Too Big to Fail Get Bigger, News Corp. Scandal, FT on Fire
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2011 at 09:56 PM
The Huffington Post reports that the Obama administration, far from splitting up the too-big-to-fail banks, will allow them to get... More
DealBook Leaves Out the Links in Its Goldman Story
By Felix Salmon Jan 19, 2011 at 05:31 PM
DealBook and Footnoted—the very epitome of professional financial blogs—have collaborated in a big investigation of Goldman Sachs's regulatory filings and... More
Yet Again, Fannie and Freddie Didn’t Do It
By Ryan Chittum Jan 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Michael Hudson writes one of the most convincing Fannie and Freddie Didn't Do It pieces yet. Actually, my soundbite isn't... More
Adventures in Markets Reporting
By Felix Salmon Jan 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM
European stocks went up today, and European bonds went down. That happens, sometimes. But there was lots of news floating... More
Audit Notes: Bad Times with FINRA, Apple, and Co-bylines
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 08:58 PM
The New York Times's DealBook drops a beat sweetener profiling the new head of FINRA, that toothless in-house regulator of... More
The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving
Fortune joins the WSJ in putting Jerome York on the record after his death
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM
Back in March, I noticed The Wall Street Journal appearing to burn an off-the-record source a few days after he... More
The Euro-Default Drumbeat Loudens
By Felix Salmon Jan 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM
The drumbeat for debt restructurings on Europe's periphery is becoming too loud to ignore. The Economist has now come out... More
The NYT Tosses Off a Paywall Story
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM
The New York Times has a brief report today raising hopes about the prospects of a pay model for newspapers.... More
Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM
This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
