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deficits
The Journal Hypes the Downgrade
A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2011 at 02:44 PM
That Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. from AAA to AA+ is a big story no doubt. But The Wall... More
Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance
GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Ezra Klein, anticipating a lot of Republicans disingenuously blaming Obama for the national debt, points to a Center on Budget... More
Austerity and Objectivity
Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?
By Ryan Chittum Oct 25, 2011 at 02:31 PM
The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are... More
Bernanke goes mostly unheard on spending (UPDATED)
The press continues its spotty coverage of Fed’s fiscal views
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I should say. Bernanke has talked... More
Blaming the Audience: Almost Always a Bad Idea
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 01:57 PM
Marketplace's Heidi N. Moore lays into a listener for getting upset about Wall Street wanting to cut her entitlements. In... More
Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy
Corporate America’s house organ starts an anti-political political campaign
By Ryan Chittum Nov 20, 2012 at 02:57 PM
Any time you see Wall Street CEOs and CNBC campaigning for what they call the common good, it's worth raising... More
The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman
CNBC’s Becky Quick thinks, wrongly, the economist is alone in debunking “fiscal crisis”
By Ryan Chittum Oct 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This summer, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went on CNBC to talk about his book and ended up getting... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
