The Audit
BP Defines Deviancy Down
The national press is slow off the mark on the huge oil spill in Michigan
By Ryan Chittum Jul 29, 2010 at 07:24 PM
The national press stuffs a big story today on a massive new oil spill in the Kalamazoo River. Size, of... More
WSJ Looks at the Overdraft Bottom Feeders
By Ryan Chittum Jul 29, 2010 at 09:59 AM
The Wall Street Journal is terrific this morning to throw the spotlight on the seedy cottage industry that feeds off... More
Audit Notes: Moody’s Market, Revolving Door, Tables Turned on Zuck
By Ryan Chittum Jul 28, 2010 at 07:13 PM
Kevin Hall of McClatchy has a great scoop on Moody's CEO's suspiciously timed stock sales. In one case, CEO Ray... More
Yglesias and McArdle Miss on Interchange Fees
By Ryan Chittum Jul 28, 2010 at 05:46 PM
Matt Yglesias is defending the interchange industry, which transfers money from the poor to the rich—all through hidden fees. Once... More
Apple’s Controlling Instincts Hit Time and SI
By Ryan Chittum Jul 28, 2010 at 01:57 PM
The Wall Street Journal's approach to charging the iPad has been the smartest of any of the media. The Journal... More
NYT Goes to the Numbers
Economists’ analysis brings welcome data to stimulus debate
By Holly Yeager Jul 28, 2010 at 12:42 PM
The New York Times has a good early look at something that’s much in demand—an analysis of where the economy... More
Audit Notes: GE Corruption, Poor Subsidizing the Rich, Takedown
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2010 at 08:55 PM
Footnoted's Theo Francis spotlights an eye-raising settlement by GE, which essentially confessed to bribing foreign officials (in Iraq, no less)... More
Seven Top-Paid CEOs Lost Shareholders’ Money in the 2000s
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2010 at 06:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal runs the numbers on the Top 25 Highest Paid CEOs of the Decade and they are,... More
WSJ’s Stimulus-Debate Story is Debatable
A page-one piece says economists question whether stimulus makes things worse but can’t find any who actually do
By Holly Yeager Jul 27, 2010 at 03:59 PM
The Wall Street Journal goes big with a story on the debate over stimulus spending. But the piece doesn’t deliver... More
Reuters Gets a Wall Street Take on Warren
By Ryan Chittum Jul 27, 2010 at 10:52 AM
What would it sound like on Wall Street if we got a regulator like, say, Elizabeth Warren, who is resolutely... More
Audit Notes: Angelides; Goldman Sachs; Broke, Fat, and Stoned
By Ryan Chittum Jul 26, 2010 at 08:31 PM
In non-polo news, the Financial Times scooped this morning that the Financial Crisis Inquiry (aka Angelides) Commission is threatening to... More
Looking the Other Way on Wall Street
NYT’s Morgenson reports that Wall Street knew that bundled loans didn’t meet standards
By Ryan Chittum Jul 26, 2010 at 05:54 PM
Gretchen Morgenson had an excellent column in yesterday's Times that gets at one of the core issues if criminal cases... More
On Tax-Cut Politics, WSJ Adds to the Confusion
By Holly Yeager Jul 26, 2010 at 05:50 PM
The Wall Street Journal takes its turn at the tax-cuts-as-election-issue story. But in trying to explain the politics that are... More
“The Word Was Polo; The Man, Ralph Lauren”
Place those special sections, gleefully, in the recycle pile unread
By Ryan Chittum Jul 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM
One of the dirty little secrets of the newspaper business is that you should almost never bother to read a... More
It’s Still Unclear Why Cassano Got Off the Hook
By Ryan Chittum Jul 23, 2010 at 06:16 PM
The Wall Street Journal's leder this morning explores why the government dropped its criminal fraud investigation of AIG's Joseph Cassano,... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
