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• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Wall Street Journal and the Waffle House

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Sep 1 2011 08:17 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Foreclosure Scandal Continues American Banker and Reuters show banks thumbing their nose at the law

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Sep 1 2011 01:41 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Golden Teeth Dallas’s WFAA shows crooked Medicaid spending on orthodontia

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Thu Sep 1 2011 01:17 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Bank Consolidation, The Depression, Stuart Kuttner

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 31 2011 08:02 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Missing the Bus NYTimes overly focuses on one pratfall facing young campaign reporters

  By Erika Fry

  Wed Aug 31 2011 04:54 PM

• The Audit

  AT&T;’s Hubris

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 31 2011 02:48 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Leonhardt’s Sharp Look at the Mind of the Fed Why has debate at the central bank been so constrained?

  By Greg Marx

  Wed Aug 31 2011 02:15 PM

• The Observatory

  Media Hurricane Hype? Irene spurs debate about the quality of news coverage

  By Curtis Brainard

  Wed Aug 31 2011 10:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Boyd on Blackboard, Capitalism Lite, BofA Woes

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Aug 30 2011 07:53 PM Comments (3)

• The News Frontier, The Observatory

  After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts

  By Alysia Santo

  Tue Aug 30 2011 03:07 PM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  WSJ Shoe Leather and Privacy Series Pays Off In Libya

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Aug 30 2011 01:16 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Stocks Fed, Stadium Economics, Dumb-Question Headlines

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Aug 29 2011 06:07 PM

• Language Corner

  Against Semantic Satiation Some new words to learn after a wild week

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Aug 29 2011 02:06 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  The Facts Ma’am—Just the Facts Rick Perry dodges Social Security questions, while CNBC explains

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Aug 29 2011 02:05 PM Comments (14)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Murdoch and American Politicians, UAW, Labor’s Bulletin Board Win

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 26 2011 07:37 PM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Good WSJ Scoop on AIG and Wall Street Research

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 26 2011 06:51 PM

• The News Frontier

  WikiLeaks is at it Again This time there’s an easy way to sift all those cables

  By Alysia Santo

  Fri Aug 26 2011 03:52 PM

• The Audit

  More On Why I’m Talking About Tim Cook’s Sexuality

  By Felix Salmon

  Fri Aug 26 2011 02:50 PM Comments (7)

• The Audit

  Why Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Sexuality Is News

  By Felix Salmon

  Fri Aug 26 2011 02:29 PM Comments (8)

• The Observatory

  Gamey Green Jobs Coverage NYT, others hack off slices of Brookings-Battelle report

  By Curtis Brainard

  Fri Aug 26 2011 11:15 AM

• Page Views

  Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) What happened to TV news?

  By Michael Meyer

  Fri Aug 26 2011 06:00 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: A Triple-B Chairman for a Triple-B Company, Stadium Welfare, Euro Crisis

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Aug 25 2011 08:04 PM Comments (7)

• The News Frontier

  And Then There Were Two Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area newspapers to consolidate

  By Alysia Santo

  Thu Aug 25 2011 05:22 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Fortune Inside the Pfizer Fiasco A deeply reported piece on a management crisis at the giant drug company

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Aug 25 2011 04:40 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  More Unsettling Insights from Perry’s Eggheads Politicians are learning more about how to work the media. Can the press push back?

  By Greg Marx

  Thu Aug 25 2011 01:39 PM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Steve Jobs, WSJ on Hacking, NYPD As Domestic CIA

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 24 2011 07:02 PM Comments (3)

• The News Frontier

  From Commenter to Contributor On some blogs, taking the comment section seriously can mean hiring people from it

  By Alysia Santo

  Wed Aug 24 2011 04:30 PM Comments (9)

• Campaign Desk

  Revisiting the Man in the Middle Health reform won’t help him

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Aug 24 2011 03:44 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Capital One Tries to Buy Too Big to Fail Status

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 24 2011 03:29 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Money Talks Why do we never hear from the working class on op-ed pages?

  By Erika Fry

  Wed Aug 24 2011 12:39 PM Comments (15)

• The Audit

  Steve Brill’s Blinkered View of Education

  By Felix Salmon

  Wed Aug 24 2011 12:25 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Students Drop For-Profit Colleges, Foreclosures, Hospital Mergers (UPDATED)

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Aug 23 2011 08:39 PM Comments (16)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Repatriation Tax Holiday and American Jobs

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Aug 23 2011 03:13 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Covering the Fringe Candidates How should the press decide which dissents to take seriously?

  By Greg Marx

  Tue Aug 23 2011 12:15 PM Comments (21)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Bloomberg News on the Fed’s Secret Mega-TARP

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Aug 22 2011 05:55 PM Comments (11)

• Campaign Desk

  CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri Do the pols represent the voters?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Aug 22 2011 03:25 PM Comments (5)

• Language Corner

  Oral History Of spoken and written words

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Aug 22 2011 01:15 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  Unsettling Insights from Perry’s Eggheads The Texas governor gets scientific on how to work the media

  By Greg Marx

  Mon Aug 22 2011 12:23 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Hewlett-Packard and the M&A; Scoop

  By Felix Salmon

  Mon Aug 22 2011 11:55 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Welcome to America, Supercookies, Leon Black’s Blowout

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 19 2011 08:01 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Jon Stewart On Fox’s Reverse Class Warfare Meantime, the Journal notes leading GOP candidates want to raise taxes… on the poor

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 19 2011 03:48 PM Comments (37)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  A Victim’s Tale What it’s like to be on the receiving end of a press error

  By Craig Silverman

  Fri Aug 19 2011 12:00 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Matt Taibbi vs. the SEC Rolling Stone gets no credit from most of the press for a huge scoop

  By Felix Salmon

  Fri Aug 19 2011 10:58 AM Comments (12)

• Page Views

  Newsies (1992) “Headlines don’t sell papes; newsies sell papes”

  By Katia Bachko

  Fri Aug 19 2011 10:06 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: The Milken Memory Hole, The Ax Murder and the NotW, Yahoo

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 19 2011 12:28 AM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  News Corp. Buries a Whistleblower A case study in Rupert Murdoch’s corporate culture

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Aug 18 2011 05:07 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, The News Frontier

  HuffPost and Patch Look for Primary Power Brokers New initiative to measure GOP conversation, outside the Beltway

  By Greg Marx

  Thu Aug 18 2011 04:36 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  The Provo Papers Utah TV reporter tracks down two million-dollar Romney donors

  By Erika Fry

  Thu Aug 18 2011 02:46 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Campaigning Between Covers Why do presidential wannabes write books?

  By Erika Fry

  Wed Aug 17 2011 05:26 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Wall Street Journal Error Undermines a Story’s Premise But even after a correction, its readers almost surely don’t know that

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 17 2011 03:38 PM Comments (9)

• Campaign Desk

  The Back Story on Medicare’s Wild Spending The narrative unfolds, bit by bit

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Aug 17 2011 02:55 PM Comments (4)

• The News Frontier

  Web First, Print Later Why some digital news startups are branching into print

  By Alysia Santo

  Wed Aug 17 2011 10:33 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  A State-Backed Miracle As Perry pushes Texas boom, the press shouldn’t forget one reason behind it

  By Greg Marx

  Wed Aug 17 2011 10:04 AM Comments (10)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Banker’s Good FHA Work, FBI’s Small Fry, Michael Barone

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Aug 16 2011 08:20 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, Borders & Bylines

  How to Get Young People Interested in Global News Why we should emphasize journalism’s role in sparking innovation

  By Justin D. Martin

  Tue Aug 16 2011 03:14 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Damning New Evidence in the News Corp. Hacking Scandal Payments to a convict began one month after a letter reminded execs he’d kept his mouth shut

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Aug 16 2011 03:13 PM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: One Termer, HAMP Dwindles, The Crisis Narrative Shift

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Aug 15 2011 08:15 PM Comments (36)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Free Press Probes Fannie and Freddie The giant bailout recipients are dumping inventory in Detroit and pushing foreclosures over modifications

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Aug 15 2011 05:55 PM Comments (2)

• Language Corner

  One Word or Two? An altogether random list to use every day

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Aug 15 2011 04:59 PM Comments (6)

• Behind the News

  The Russian Reporters Who Helped Topple the USSR Remembering a brief, shining, twenty-year-old moment

  By Ann Cooper

  Mon Aug 15 2011 04:37 PM Comments (5)

• The Audit

  Why the NYT Paywall Isn’t Like the FT’s

  By Felix Salmon

  Mon Aug 15 2011 02:32 PM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  How the NYT Paywall Is Working

  By Felix Salmon

  Mon Aug 15 2011 02:22 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Romney and His Corporate Man A frivolous take from NPR

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Aug 15 2011 12:44 PM Comments (5)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Feces, Fascists, and Michael Lewis A flop from the best writer in financial journalism

  By Felix Salmon

  Mon Aug 15 2011 10:55 AM Comments (7)

• Campaign Desk

  Iowan Silos In debate analysis, journalists should use locals for more than just color

  By Erika Fry

  Fri Aug 12 2011 04:56 PM Comments (3)

• The News Frontier

  Lessons from the Seattle PostGlobe For start-ups, a love of journalism is not enough

  By Alysia Santo

  Fri Aug 12 2011 04:21 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Denuded County, Recession Watch, Reporting Rumors

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 12 2011 04:14 PM Comments (23)

• The Audit

  The WSJ Advances the Foreign-Exchange Gouging Story

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 12 2011 02:10 PM

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  Schmidle in Secret New Yorker keeps mum on fact-checking process for bin Laden piece

  By Craig Silverman

  Fri Aug 12 2011 12:39 PM Comments (4)

• Page Views, The Audit

  Ace in the Hole (1951) What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Aug 12 2011 11:15 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Picturing the Turmoil, WSJ vs. SmartMoney, Long Crisis

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Aug 11 2011 06:40 PM Comments (7)

• The News Frontier

  Borders’ Newsstand Blues Store closings spell trouble for niche magazine titles

  By Alysia Santo

  Thu Aug 11 2011 06:01 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  Debunking the Myth of an Independent President LA Times op-ed spotlights partisanship’s place

  By Greg Marx

  Thu Aug 11 2011 04:03 PM Comments (9)

• Behind the News

  Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media Postcard from Port au Prince

  By William Wheeler

  Thu Aug 11 2011 03:08 PM

• Campaign Desk

  A Hospital Story Not to Write Doing the digging for real news

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Thu Aug 11 2011 01:43 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  SmartMoney Makes a Hash of the Downgrade Says borrowers face higher rates, despite sinking Treasury yields

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 10 2011 06:17 PM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Journal Hypes the Downgrade A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Aug 10 2011 02:44 PM Comments (9)

• Page Views

  Searching for D.B. Cooper Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit

  By Jordan Michael Smith

  Wed Aug 10 2011 02:22 PM