Martha M. Hamilton - Columbia Journalism Review

Martha M. Hamilton , CJR’s Audit Arbiter, explores complaints about fairness, accuracy, and other issues arising from business-news stories. Send possible story ideas her way at the link on her name. A former reporter, editor, and columnist at The Washington Post, she is a writer and editor for PolitiFact.com.

Apology Due

May 31, 2011 By Martha M. Hamilton

Audit Arbiter says Felix Salmon was off-base and needlessly mean in a 2007 post on a columnist

Prudential’s Death Benefits for Soldiers: Bloomberg Gets it (Mostly) Right

December 29, 2010 By Martha M. Hamilton

CJR‘s Audit Arbiter finds no merit to many of an insurer’s beefs about the financial wire’s probe

How 60 Minutes Missed on Chevron

April 14, 2010 By Martha M. Hamilton

A piece on the oil giant and the rainforest last year relies too much on innuendo

What We Learned In the Meltdown

January 26, 2009 By Martha M. Hamilton

Financial journalists saw some trees but not the forest. Now what?

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