How the media gets the price of Thanksgiving dinner wrong ABC, NBC, Tech Times, and The Atlantic run with a press release November 26, 2014 By Ryan Chittum
Audit Notes: Online polls, local TV news, HuffPost art April 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The LA Times runs with a shaky survey on wage theft
Audit Notes: Star-Ledger sinks, Strib swims, news revenue quantified April 3, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Advance Publications and the Newhouses slash another already-gutted newsroom
Native ads: Advertorial for the digital age April 3, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Talking Points Memo, Andrew Sullivan, and advertising as a necessary evil
Digital First plans layoffs (Updated) April 1, 2014 By Dean Starkman High-level executives and high-profile digital projects targeted
Audit Notes: Business Insider’s junkets, NYT’s union dig, naive AP April 1, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Henry Blodget’s site lets sources pay for business reporters’ overseas trips
Audit Notes: WSJ’s Obamacare frame, undercover, too big to fail April 1, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Journal‘s angle slants against HealthCare.gov
Straw men fail to advance future-of-news debate, as usual March 31, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A response to Ben Thompson on the Web’s supposed golden age of journalism
Audit Notes: Sex bias and arbitration, NYT Now, ageism in the Valley March 31, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Times on corporate culture questions raised by a lawsuit against Sterling Jewelers
WSJ editorial page brazenly ignores Toyota’s own admissions March 27, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Holman Jenkins isn’t entitled to his own facts
Audit Notes: Vice talks IPO, Wall Street suicides, Slate membership March 25, 2014 By Ryan Chittum CEO floats a Twitter-like valuation
Bloomberg gets a taste of transparency March 25, 2014 By Dean Starkman And the controversy over its China coverage reaches a crisis point
The Hamster Wheel is institutionalized at the Oregonian March 25, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Newhouse-owned outlet imposes a digital quota
For the WSJ, access doesn’t pay off March 21, 2014 By Ryan Chittum While Businessweek, locked out, gets the big Target hacking story
Bloomberg News’s deepening China problem March 21, 2014 By Dean Starkman Chairman’s remarks raise serious questions about the news division’s mission in a key market