Audit Notes: News Corp. split edition

More on the implications of Murdoch’s move

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2012 at 08:06 PM

The Financial Times's John Gapper has the best take on what Rupert Murdoch's bustup of News Corporation means: Some US... More

News Corp. ponders a split

Easing but not erasing the Murdoch discount

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Shareholders have been carping for years that Rupert Murdoch should get rid of his newspapers and focus on the real... More

Audit Notes: Gannett profits, Spiegel grilling, private equity

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2012 at 02:37 AM

At least Gannett is optimistic about the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports (emphasis mine): Gannett, publisher of... More

Bernanke goes mostly unheard on spending (UPDATED)

The press continues its spotty coverage of Fed’s fiscal views

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I should say. Bernanke has talked... More

The WSJ bakes a bogus trend

And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now... More

Audit Notes: NYT CEO search, Private Prisons, Morozov

Sulzberger looks for a boss with tech experience

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2012 at 06:28 PM

Bloomberg News has new details on The New York Times Company's search for a CEO, which includes "aspirational" folks like... More

Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS

The agency hamstrings a program designed to bring in tips on tax evasion

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Bloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is... More

Audit Notes: Smart Money, NYT CEO, sushi chefs and nola.com

Dow Jones lays off staff and goes all-digital with its personal-finance magazine

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2012 at 09:22 PM

Dow Jones is shutting down Smart Money magazine, laying off most of the staff and going to a digital-only format... More

Audit Radio: Cleveland edition

Dean Starkman joins a panel of Ohio journalists on the future of newspapers

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2012 at 05:02 PM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman talked about the future of newspapers on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCRN this morning. "Sound of Ideas"... More

Audit Notes: The U-6ers, Jamie’s corporate welfare, The Guardian’s future

The NYT looks at those with not enough work

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM

I like this Michael Cooper piece in The New York Times on the folks who don't show up in the... More

Another A1 Times-Picayune press release

This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More

Audit Notes: Echoes of the 1930s, gilded bubble, access journalism

As Greece crumbles, extremism and violence rises

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2012 at 01:55 AM

On the echoes of the 1930s tip, the University of Athens's Aristides Hatzis writes in the Financial Times: Despite the... More

Microsoft’s live-action press release

Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 19, 2012 at 08:00 AM

Yesterday, Microsoft got a bunch of tech journalists to go to Hollywood for what it promised would be a major... More

Audit Notes: Very profitable staff cuts; Dimon’s crisis bet; Obama and trade

Time Inc. squeezes Sports Illustrated for more money

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Bloomberg's Edmund Lee gets a great quote from the editor of Time Incorporated's Sports Group, Terry McDonell, on why Sports... More

The Times-Picayune’s front-page press release

Advance Publication’s Alabama papers take even worse hits than New Orleans

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM

You know the backlash is serious when the Times-Picayune wraps itself in Katrina and puts a press release/editorial by the... More

New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel

The fall of the Times-Picayune

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market... More

Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego

ProPublica documents JPMorgan Chase’s extensive ties to a docile Senate Banking Committee

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM

ProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill... More

Audit Notes: bad banks edition

Too big to behave or to fail

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Gretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions... More

Owens’s straw man army

A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM

Howard Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its... More

Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition

Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2012 at 07:57 PM

The New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what... More