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: No Post counteroffer for Ezra, OC Register, celebrity offspring January 22, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Politico reports the paper didn’t bother with a counteroffer
Ezra Klein and the early-mover disadvantage January 22, 2014 By Dean Starkman No one knows if these new personal-franchise journalism ventures are going to work
Overdrafted January 21, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A Wall Street Journal probe uncovers huge fees at banks near military bases
The OC Register‘s expansion reverses January 17, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Trouble for Aaron Kushner’s contrarian bet in Southern California
Reuters deeply alarmed by competition in the cellphone industry January 16, 2014 By Ryan Chittum In the silo with Wall Street on worries about T-Mobile hurting profit margins
Audit Notes: The Hamster Wheel, Mike Allen, artisanal toast January 16, 2014 By Ryan Chittum A complaint from the digital trenches
Box-office baloney January 14, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Journalists fall yet again for Hollywood spin on a revenue "record"
Tracking digital-era news quality declines January 14, 2014 By Dean Starkman A Tulane student project tracks the Times-Picayune before and after a digital overhaul
Audit Notes: Sysco is hungry, Michael Wolff, Big Viral January 10, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The WSJ looks at consolidation in the food business
Native ads grow up January 10, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The New York Times gets the controversial format right
Audit Notes: Roger Ailes biography, gun mags, Wells Fargo sales January 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Times reports new details of Gabriel Sherman’s upcoming book
Bank tellers in the boiler room January 7, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Los Angeles Times on the underbelly of Wells Fargo’s sales culture
The NYT spreads AEI’s Big Lie of the Crisis January 6, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Poor judgment to run a fallacious column from Peter Wallison
‘Best business photos’ make bad clickbait January 3, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Fortune‘s uninspiring list illustrates the limits of the genre
Holding the Newhouses to ‘The Pledge’ December 24, 2013 By Rebecca Theim A newspaper’s ex-employees sue over an abandoned "no-layoffs" promise