Audit Notes: Koblin Continues on Kouwe; Old Reformers; A good, quick WSJ probe; Charlie Moves Over, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40 PM

-John Koblin continues to turn in strong work for the Observer on the Times Bizday plagiarism story, this time with... More

Threading the “News Analysis” Needle

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2010 at 08:44 AM

The lines between news and news analysis, and news analysis and opinion, are necessarily fuzzy. Most people would agree about... More

Audit Notes: NYO on an NYT Plagiarism Problem; Three Good Ones in the WSJ; plus Wolf

By Dean Starkman   Feb 16, 2010 at 07:16 PM

--John Koblin at the Observer broke an important story about apparent plagiarism involving Times business staffer Zachery Kouwes. A Times's... More

A Polk for Pittman

By Dean Starkman   Feb 16, 2010 at 04:41 PM

Long Island University announced the winners of the 2009 Polk Awards this morning, and we at The Audit want to... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg on the Financial Protection Agency; FT’s Volcker Get; Norris Gets Almost There; Greece as Bear Stearns, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 12, 2010 at 06:30 PM

--Bloomberg does a good job tracking the dimming prospects of a consumer finance protection agency, yet another indication, as far... More

The Times’s Last Goldman Story Mostly Held Up Fine

But it’s not a zero-sum game

By Dean Starkman   Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM

Yesterday, I said Goldman had a minor but valid point in spokesman Lucas van Praag's unusual public response to last... More

A Good Counterintuitive Piece on an Ex-Goldmanite

By Dean Starkman   Feb 12, 2010 at 10:12 AM

There are a lot of reasons to like this Bloomberg profile of Gary Gensler. First, it's into the weeds of... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Day

By Dean Starkman   Feb 11, 2010 at 06:34 PM

It’s all-Bloomberg, all-day here on Audit Notes™ --Nobody can manipulate the data ocean in a Bloomberg machine like Bloomberg News,... More

The Times, Goldman and the SocGen Problem

The bank has minor, but valid point in tiff with the paper

By Dean Starkman   Feb 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM

The NYT’s Sunday story on the AIG-Goldman collateral fight didn’t break any major news, but it certainly added some useful... More

All Eyes On NHTSA

Press lessons here

By Dean Starkman   Feb 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM

The business press continues to turn in devastating reporting on Toyota’s problems and the parallel failures of its main regulator,... More

New Financial Sheriff in Town, Part III

Times highlights SEC’s latest crackdown—on an Estonian brokerage

By Dean Starkman   Feb 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM

The Times continues the business-press tradition of hailing new regulators as saviors from the previous bad regulators. "S.E.C. Enforcers Focus... More

The Wall Street End Game

By Dean Starkman   Feb 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM

Barry Ritholtz sees no new news in yesterday’s Times piece recreating the AIG/Goldman talks, which forced the insurer to hand... More

Audit Notes: Wessel on Press Failure; Cohan On a Bailout Mystery Pair; NYT on Student Loans, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 5, 2010 at 06:28 PM

--David Wessel, the WSJ's economics editor, displayed admirable candor to a roomful of his financial press colleagues, I thought, in... More

The Journal Reveals Yet Another Mortgage Bug

By Dean Starkman   Feb 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM

This is just a good story by Carrick Mollenkamp in the Journal this morning, showing one more trapdoor in the... More

Audit Notes: WSJ v. Pay-to-Play; NIM(Budget)BY; Limousine Liberal, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 3, 2010 at 06:03 PM

--Pay-to-play is a scourge of local and state government, and the Journal does a good job ferreting it out this... More

Toyota No Longer Attacking the L.A. Times

By Dean Starkman   Feb 3, 2010 at 02:05 PM

The business press has done well documenting Toyota’s spiraling problems, including this morning’s news that U.S. regulators are accusing the... More

Audit Notes: Reuters Withdraws; Leaving Las Vegas; Reregulation, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 2, 2010 at 07:02 PM

--Talking Points Memo had a nice catch of Reuters pulling a story headlined "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class" after... More

Volcker Pushed Back

By Dean Starkman   Feb 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM

When Wall Street doesn’t like something, one thing is certain: the public will hear about it. The pushback on the... More

Audit Notes: Times Nicked; Defining Populism; Special Dividends; Intrepid Blogger, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 1, 2010 at 06:24 PM

--NYTPicker, an anonymous site devoting to giving the Times a hard time, has an interesting item that says the paper... More

On Paulson’s Sole-Source Account in the WSJ’s News Pages

By Dean Starkman   Feb 1, 2010 at 01:24 PM

On page 350 of Too Big To Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on how Hank Paulson reacted that fateful Sunday,... More