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
Press Manipulation: Federal Reserve edition September 18, 2013 By Dean Starkman Summers, Yellen, and the perils of access reporting
Russell Brand on the press and power September 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Ejected from a British GQ event for jokes aimed at the corporate sponsor
How billionaires get around the estate tax September 17, 2013 By David Cay Johnston A stellar Bloomberg article uses the Waltons as a case study
Audit Notes: GOOD sellout, flash crashes, Reuters eyes banks’ accounting moves (UPDATED) September 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The liberal magazine-turned-social network pairs up with the military to perfect a killing machine
The WSJ on the continuing mortgage crisis September 16, 2013 By Dean Starkman Linking borrowers and a toxic security, and leading the Lehman look-back work
DealBook’s sympathy for the SEC September 13, 2013 By Ryan Chittum NYT access gives the bumbling agency its preferred angle on Lehman inaction
Audit Notes: Daily Beast, Countrywide shareholders, a liberal in NYC September 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Tina Brown is out as editor of the money-bleeding website
Here’s the 1 Thing You Need To Know About Why I Can’t Stop Looking At These 9 Questions You’re Too Embarrassed To Ask About headlines September 11, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The ancient history of a clickbait headline claimed by Ezra Klein for the Post
The new black migration September 10, 2013 By Dean Starkman Laura Gottesdiener’s book details the continuing wreckage of the mortgage crisis
Audit Notes: Reporting numbers, The Onion on the hamster wheel, info consumerism September 10, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Francine McKenna on how to handle unaudited financials
Advance Publications scraps AnnArbor.com September 9, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A return to The Ann Arbor News name and integration with MLive
A weakened Washington Post, a serious ethical breach September 6, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Erik Wemple hits his own paper for hopping the wall between ads and news
The minimum wage and the Danish Big Mac September 5, 2013 By Ryan Chittum In Denmark, higher wages mean higher prices but they’re still worth it
Britain’s spooks don’t get the 4th estate September 4, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Oliver Robbins on the detention of David Miranda and the seizure of press communications
Bubbles, bubbles everywhere August 27, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Stocks, like housing, are not detached from realistic prices
