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What He Said

Wise words from the FT’s Martin Wolf

An exceptionally wise column by Martin Wolf in this morning’s Financial Times strikes me as important for even casual business-press... More

Murdoch and that Lying Thing

Will be a problem for the Journal

He said that he admired the Dow Jones chief executive, Richard F. Zannino, and the newly appointed top editor,... More

Incorrect

A bad mistake yields an inadequate correction, and lessons for the Journal

Readers know errors are a fact of newspaper life, and business-press readers are no different. Errors are to be regretted,... More

Stilettos Are The Rage

For WSJ, L’Affaire Judith offers a glimpse of a creepy new home at News Corp.

Any Wall Street Journal reporter, editor—or reader—would do well to read the first 40 pages or so of Judith Regan’s... More

Esquire vs. The Audit on Ground Zero Coverage

Raab, Longobardi trade shots on Silverstein, Rubenstein, the Port Authority and lack of progress

Editor's Note: In a recent two-part edition, The Audit roundly castigated the press for what we believe has been a... More

Zell If He Knows

Connie Bruck’s good piece on Zell doesn’t ask the key question: how to drive TribCo revenue?

Connie Bruck's excellent profile of Sam Zell in this week's New Yorker contains information that even close Zell-watchers did not... More

The Weed Ain’t the Half of It

Devil is in the details of WSJ’s James Cayne story

In case you missed it, The Wall Street Journal’s Kate Kelly last week produced an exceptional page-one story, known in... More

Citigroup Coverage: Too Clever by Half

The business press is too smart for our own good on a CEO’s exit

Um, the business-press is talking to itself again. Coverage of this morning’s forced resignation of Charles Prince, Citigroup’s chairman and... More

A Clean Scoop on Merrill, Etc.

NYT pries out Merrill Lynch chief’s surprising merger parlay; other Friday business thoughts

The New York Times beat the world with a story by Jenny Anderson and Landon Thomas Jr. that says Merrill... More

The Audit Recommends: Nocera on Fox Business, Others

Nocera on Fox Business News; New York Magazine piece on Gawker; WSJ on an Iraq corruption probe, and more.

The New York Times's Joe Nocera is funny and perceptive in his column over the weekend in which he reviews... More

Dow Jones’s False Dawn

DJ’s promising future will benefit not an independent newspaper company, but News Corp. shareholders and Rupert Murdoch.

Dow Jones & Co. reported its third-quarter earnings this morning, and, really, as a shareholder, I couldn't ask for better... More

At or Above-Prime Subprime Primers

With video, charts and well-chosen words, the business press catches readers up on a spiraling crisis

Non-business press readers are probably asking themselves whether they should be worried about the ongoing crises in the housing and... More

An Above-Prime Collaboration

ABC News and NYT combined to help KO substandard subprime lender.

On the subject of business-news coverage of Citigroup and suprime lending, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times reminds... More

More on Citi and the Business Press

LAT and NYT editors make fair points, provide valuable teaching moment

Editors from major dailies on both coasts wrote to say I blasted with too wide a blunderbuss last week in... More

Tale of Two Citis

It took an obscure magazine to reveal how Sandy Weill built his empire on subprime lending. Why?

A long time ago, before the turn of the century, subprime lending was a marginal business—economically, ethically, every way. The... More

$70-Million Nit

Los Angeles Times , Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, Fox, CNN, MSNBC make common error in reporting Rather’s lawsuit

Reminder to headline writers and reporters on the Dan Rather-CBS lawsuit story: He didn't file a "$70-million lawsuit" last week.... More

Lovers of the Press, Liberty Must Root for Cubs

A call to patriots everywhere

As a Burkean liberal and paleo-librarian of longstanding, like many of you, The Audit has long understood that the Chicago... More

Our Score: Murdoch 2 - Journalism 0

No Ingrassia book, Varadarajan quits as readers learn to play by Austrialian rules

Kudos to Keith J. Kelly of News Corp.'s New York Post who has more scoops this week. He says Larry... More

Greenspan, Iraq, Oil. How’s that again?

The WSJ and NYT underplay Greenspan role as “behind-the-scenes advocate” for invading Iraq. Woodward and Post get it right.

In the second-to-last paragraph of a story on page A3 Monday, The Wall Street Journal says Alan Greenspan was "himself... More

“The Insurance Hoax” and the Business Press

Bloomberg Markets’s latest cover story and a Times piece perform a valuable service; Forbes and WSJ editorialists blow key Katrina fact

When applying for a grant last year from George Soros's Open Society Institute to report on the insurance industry's response... More

If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?

The story behind one of the best business models in the country

What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas

“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”

Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican

What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers

Obama as the Green Lantern

Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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