The Audit
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
Fortune on the French
France’s “unproductive labor force” is, in fact, quite productive
By Ryan Chittum Feb 26, 2013 at 11:22 AM
The abrasive tire CEO Maurice Taylor made news last week when he lashed out at French workers as "lazy" good-for-nothings.... More
Audit Notes: Seattle paywall, private equity taxes, mortgage security fraud
The Seattle Times will charge online readers beginning next month
By Ryan Chittum Feb 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times is the latest paper to join the paywall movement. It looks like it's basically copying The New... More
An eye on the Times-Picayune’s numbers
Some questions about what executives say are positive circulation trends
By Ryan Chittum Feb 22, 2013 at 03:00 PM
We'll have a long story on the Times-Picayune next week, but Publisher Ricky Mathews and Editor Jim Amoss released some... More
Content economics, part 1: advertising
The dismal state of ads in online publishing
By Felix Salmon Feb 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Back in December, Peter Kafka summed up the most important question with regards to the future of online advertising. Do... More
Audit Notes: Hank the hero, Des Moines, Norwegian wood
The FT’s John Gapper reviews the former AIG CEO’s autobiography
By Ryan Chittum Feb 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
John Gapper's Financial Times review of the new Hank Greenberg (the disgraced former AIG CEO, not the All Star baseball... 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.
