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
The news business should refuse Facebook’s deal October 29, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The lure of online ad revenue isn’t worth surrendering news judgment to Zuckerberg’s algorithm
The ethics of The Guardian‘s Whisper bombshell October 20, 2014 By Ryan Chittum It would have been a journalistic lapse not to have told readers
The Washington Post short-sells a reporter’s integrity October 20, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Steven Pearlstein smears TheStreet’s Adam Feuerstein for criticizing a biotech firm
Simon & Schuster keeps its fabulist on bookshelves October 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum C. David Heymann’s impact on the historical record
Scary numbers in Moody’s public pension report, sans context October 3, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Media coverage of ‘$2 trillion’ gap is incomplete at best
The upside of yesterday’s New York Times news October 2, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Paywall 2.0 flop triggers layoffs, but digital ads and digital circulation surge
Going easy on Eric Holder’s Wall Street inaction September 26, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Press coverage falls short on the attorney general’s failure to prosecute fraud
Simon & Schuster should come clean about discredited Monroe/DiMaggio book September 23, 2014 By Ryan Chittum C. David Heymann’s Joe and Marilyn is full of highly dubious information–just like many of his previous books
Audit Interview: Carol J. Loomis September 9, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Fortune legend talks about 60 years in business journalism
Paywall pioneer Press+ merges with Piano Media September 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A European investment fund purchases the company for an undisclosed sum
How not to report on inflation September 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Cognitive biases on prices obscure the big picture on food costs
Facebook’s war on clickbait unlikely to do much good August 28, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Publishers who cheer the move should know that Zuckerberg & Co. can turn off the traffic spigot whenever it suits them
The New York Times‘ paywall has plenty of room to grow August 27, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Prediction to the contrary from Re/code misses several key factors
Al Jazeera America struggles to get off the margins August 20, 2014 By Dean Starkman A quality-first strategy faces huge hurdles
