Audit Notes: Debt Collector Scams, Occupy Oakland Coverage, Jest

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2011 at 07:47 PM

The Washington Post reports on two FTC complaints against California debt collector companies, which "highlight an increase in complaints about... More

Cataloging the Banks’ Crimes and Misdeeds

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2011 at 06:28 PM

This excellent Daily Beast piece by Gary Rivlin catalogs the major crimes of the four biggest U.S. banks plus Goldman... More

Audit Notes: More on Inequality, Les Hinton’s Memory

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2011 at 06:36 PM

The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of... More

The Myth of Income Equality, Courtesy of AEI

New CBO data show what (almost) everybody already knows

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2011 at 05:31 PM

This post by James Pethokoukis, who recently hopped over to AEI from Reuters, shows how to combine the worst tendencies... More

Austerity and Objectivity

Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 25, 2011 at 02:31 PM

The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are... More

Audit Notes: Copying the NYT Paywall, WaMu, The 0.1 Percent

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 06:16 PM

Jeff Bercovici of Forbes responds to my post calling on papers to follow the NYT's lead on charging for news... More

Newspaper Companies As Emblems of the 1 Percent

David Carr rips Gannett’s $37 million golden parachute

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 04:32 PM

"Gannett paper" has long been a pejorative in journalism circles. So how about "Gannett executive"? The nation's biggest newspaper chain... More

ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM

I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... More

Audit Notes: Paying for Newspapers Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM

I may have spoken too soon when I said to expect The New York Times's paid subscription growth rate to... More

NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”

There’s no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times’s model

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM

If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country... More

Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM

This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional... More

Bloomberg Eyes Bank of America’s Derivatives Move

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Bloomberg News reports that Bank of America (with Federal Reserve approval) put Merrill Lynch credit-default swaps into BofA's deposit-holding arm... More

Homeless Shelters 4 AT&T-Verizon Duopoly

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 17, 2011 at 03:17 PM

In June, Politico and the Washington Post ran stories showing how, in exchange for Ma Bell's cash, nonprofits like NAACP... More

HuffPost Finds the Pain in Goldman’s For-Profit Education Firm

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2011 at 06:46 PM

It's not hard to imagine that letting boiler rooms push poor folks into taking out impossible-to-shed federal loans is a... More

Audit Notes: Economic Policy Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 07:17 PM

Ezra Klein, in his long story (which you should read) on why and how Obama's economic policy failed (I should... More

WSJ Backs Up The Guardian on European Scandal

Its reporting disputes its parent company’s denials

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Last night, Dow Jones slammed The Guardian's report on wrongdoing at The Wall Street Journal Europe, calling it "replete with... More

Wall Street Journal Europe Sourcing Was Unusual

And the CEO of the firm involved is a former Journal executive

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:35 PM

We now know, thanks to reporting in the both The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal itself, that Andrew Langloff,... More

The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal

The paper claims the scalp of a Journal publisher and points to deeper problems

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:19 PM

Read this Wall Street Journal story from this morning on the resignation of its European edition's publisher. What the Journal... More

The China Bubble

WSJ, Reuters, and Bloomberg reports show why a reckoning is likely

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM

We've all heard about the crisis in Europe, how it's weighing on the economy, and how a collapse there could... More

The Shorter-Form Journal

The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 10, 2011 at 09:40 PM

Story length in journalism by itself doesn’t mean much. We read too many news stories that are just too damned... More