The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course — Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry.
CNBC: kid gloves for bankers, boxing gloves for bank critics — Interviews with Barofsky, Spitzer, and Krugman underscore the network’s capture.
Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy — Corporate America’s house organ starts an anti-political political campaign.
200 Years of Citi — An alternate history.
Manufactured quotes — News organizations fail to disclose “regular Joe” businessmen’s lobbying ties.
Microsoft’s live-action press release — Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet.
New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel — The fall of the Times-Picayune.
The New York Times Company in 2015 — Trendlines—as of right now—don’t point to its demise.
The WaPo Ombudsman’s Faulty Paywall Analysis — The NYT’s meter is saving or adding more than $70 million in revenue a year already.
Clearly, Quartz wants to help elites go optimize themselves — The Atlantic’s new business site enters a crowded field catering to the 0.1 percent.
Anti-paywall dead-enders — Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?
Owens’s straw man army — A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time.
Journal Register opens the kimono a bit — CEO John Paton gives us some hard numbers.
The coverup culture of News Corp. — A damning report from Parliament and Rupert Murdoch’s revealing response to it.
Checkbook Journalism’s Slippery Slope — Murdoch’s scandals show why paying for news is a bad idea.
Ryan Chittum is a former Wall Street Journal reporter, and deputy editor of The Audit, CJR’s business section. If you see notable business journalism, give him a heads-up at rc2538@columbia.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @ryanchittum.