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: Bloomberg snoops, Alan Abelson, Niall in denial May 10, 2013 By Ryan Chittum And the New York Post scoops
Audit Notes: Farm labor fight, government debt, dumb-question headlines May 9, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Americans sue to get farm jobs from Mexican guest workers
The Advocate raids the Picayune May 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Major defections from the New Orleans paper intensify a newspaper war
Business Insider goes native May 7, 2013 By Ryan Chittum All but erasing the line between editorial and marketing
The corrupt City culture behind the Libor scandal May 3, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Wall Street Journal‘s excellent investigation digs up the dirt
The systemic plight of labor May 2, 2013 By Felix Salmon A revealing Thomas Friedman column on 401(k)s
Covering somebody who’s suing you May 2, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The WSJ sticks it to Sheldon Adelson by keeping a reporter on the beat
Those immobile newspaper companies May 2, 2013 By Dean Starkman Only 22 percent of a big sample even offer mobile products
The Advocate vs. the Times-Picayune April 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A New Orleans businessman fires up the newspaper war with the Newhouses
The importance of counting stories April 30, 2013 By Dean Starkman Schiffrin and Fagan quantify weaknesses in coverage of the stimulus
Audit Notes: Awful on Bangladesh, the Kochtopus, US day care April 29, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Slate’s Matthew Yglesias gets it very wrong on workers and safety standards
New York Times paywall growth slows April 26, 2013 By Ryan Chittum But it remains to be seen whether that’s a one-quarter blip or the new normal
Audit Notes: Bagged Men, whistleblowers, Times-Picayune April 25, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Rupert Murdoch, prepare your checkbook
The fight over Internet sales taxes April 24, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The corporate and ideological motives behind the opposition