Audit Notes: UBS Fraud, Stevie Cohen, Bankers 4 Liz Warren!
By Ryan Chittum So a giant Swiss bank defrauds American taxpayers. It bid-rigs the muni-bond derivatives market. It pays kickbacks and bribes. The SEC charges it with fraud and settles the case for $160 million. It's the second too-big-to-fail...
Audit Notes: UBS Fraud, Stevie Cohen, Bankers 4 Liz Warren!
By Ryan Chittum So a giant Swiss bank defrauds American taxpayers. It bid-rigs the muni-bond derivatives market. It pays kickbacks and bribes. The SEC charges it with fraud and settles the case for $160 million. It's the second too-big-to-fail...
Science Blogs “Win a Place at the Table”
Zimmer and Yong on the evolution of online science coverage
And We’re Off!
First debate low on candidates, substance, & attention
“Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”
The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon
Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal
Two stories cover the political, police, and press angles on the News Corp. coverup
The Paper Chase
For tabloid king Emile Gauvreau, it took a lifetime to slow down
Audit Notes: CEO Porn; Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan; Sbarro, Cooked
By Ryan Chittum Gary Weiss says the tarnishing of Warren Buffett is a useful moment for the press to stand back and quit the CEO worship. Indeed: The annual "we love Warren" extravaganza long ago acquired many of the aspects of a cult ritual, ...
Old-School Journal Leder Spotted in the Wild
The paper finds greenwashing in the jungle by Estée Lauder
COIN Stars
Counterinsurgency bloggers help set the Afghanistan agenda
Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors “Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story of CJR’s May/June issue. “No more. They try to do so in 2011, but competing versions of re...
A Tight Deadline, 4,000 Words, Then Ten Years of Waiting
A Q&A with Kate Zernike, Osama bin Laden's obituarist for the NYT
