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: Re/coding the Valley, Kellogg’s labor fight February 12, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A look inside the bubble
An FT story lets Wall Street off the hook February 10, 2014 By Ryan Chittum On mortgage fraud and willful blindness
NYT hasn’t been hit that hard February 7, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Parsing the numbers with Quartz and the WSJ
The NYT on the right track February 6, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A solid quarter tops off a very good financial year for the Times
Gannett’s print-focused paywalls flounder February 6, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The quality imperative and charging for news online
Viral math February 3, 2014 By Felix Salmon Curiosity-gap headlines are a way of hacking real-world friendships for profit—one Facebook won’t long abide
Audit Notes: NYT TV, Blodget invests in a paywall, Downworthy January 31, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Times can’t keep up with advertiser demand for video ads
The trust-fund newspaper January 30, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Guardian‘s windfall ensures its long-term future
Bloomberg’s viral misquote January 29, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Big Pharma CEO Marijn Dekkers didn’t quite say what they said he did
Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s big impact; WSJ good on EU inflation, bad on crediting NYT January 28, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Trading behaviors changed in the wake of the wire’s foreign-exchange investigation
Why Capital New York’s $6,000 paywall will probably work January 27, 2014 By Dean Starkman And why that’s not necessarily good news for news
Vox and Ezra Klein: testing the limits of the digital-news expansion January 27, 2014 By Dean Starkman Will what works for tech and fashion work for policy?
Roddy Boyd finds alleged Ponzi schemer January 23, 2014 By Ryan Chittum High-wire reporting on a hedge fund gone awry
Now, Bloomberg runs Wallison’s discredited housing line January 23, 2014 By Ryan Chittum And more on regulation and the shadow-banking system