The FT’s 2008 Moody’s Scoop Makes an Impact

By Ryan Chittum   May 11, 2010 at 11:21 AM

Let us now praise the Financial Times for its investigation of Moody's, which has now, at last, resulted in an... More

Audit Notes: “Populism” (Argh), Bush-Era Regulation, Tom Friedman

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2010 at 06:40 PM

Yves Smith has a good post on a longtime pet peeve of The Audit: Misuse of the word "populism." The... More

The HuffPost’s Business Reporting Shows the Site Maturing

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Let's get it out of the way up top that I think The Huffington Post is a mess—a schizophrenic, mostly... More

Audit Notes: Facebook Creeps, Apple and Ridicule, CDS Carnage

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 07:14 PM

As Facebook continues to steadily invade its users' privacy, it's been somewhat difficult to convey how exactly this has happened.... More

Good WSJ Probe Shows Oil Regulator’s Capture

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 06:48 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a great investigation on Minerals Management Service, the regulator supposed to oversee oil drilling. The... More

Coverage of TBTF Amendment FAIL Fails

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 04:22 PM

The Senate voted 61-33 yesterday against the so-called SAFE Banking Act, an amendment to the financial-reform bill that would have... More

NYT Busts Out the Weasel Words for Stock Crash

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM

What the heck happened in the stock markets yesterday? Well, nobody really knows yet. So what do you do when... More

Audit Notes: The Market Crashes, The Market Bounces Back

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2010 at 07:29 PM

Let me give some rare Audit props to CNBC's Jim Cramer for his coverage during the stock-market crash today. As... More

Audit Notes: Warren v. Dimon, Fudging the Books, REACTionaries

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2010 at 07:52 PM

Time's Stephen Gandel has a great post on why he can't find anyone to debate Elizabeth Warren on the proposed... More

Ad Age Shows Paywalls Preserving Print Circulation

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2010 at 04:04 PM

Advertising Age looks at small-paper paywalls and finds that they're having some success—at least in staving off print declines. I've... More

Shorter Wall Street Journal: Blankfein’s Days Are Numbered

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM

Lloyd Blankfein isn't going to make it. That's basically what this Money & Investing story is saying today. It can't... More

Audit Notes: No Perp Walks, How Goldman’s Like Penny-Stock Boiler Rooms, WSJ iPad

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM

David Heath of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund takes a good look at how and why executives have so far... More

“The Victor and the Vanquished”

Vanity Fair excerpts upcoming Sarah Ellison book on Murdoch’s Journal takeover

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2010 at 02:22 PM

Reading the Vanity Fair excerpt of Sarah Ellison's upcoming War at The Wall Street Journal, on Rupert Murdoch's takeover of... More

Audit Notes: Bubble Machine, Apple Pushback, Quitting Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2010 at 09:28 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a good explainer on how banks like Goldman Sachs used credit-default swaps to fuel the... More

FT Slaps Goldman Spin on Page One

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2010 at 05:55 PM

The Financial Times goes above the fold on page one today with a story on how "Goldman plans to overhaul... More

Warren Buffett, Talking His Book on Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2010 at 10:31 AM

Warren Buffett can tout an investment like any other CEO. And the press can airbrush it as long as it's... More

Audit Notes: Facebook Abuses Its Network-Effect Advantage, Qs for Goldman, Acropolis Now

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 30, 2010 at 03:55 PM

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a timeline of "Facebook's Eroding Privacy" that everybody who uses the site ought to read.... More

WSJ Now Resembling Small-Town Weekly

Future fountains make a splash at Journal’s new New York section

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 30, 2010 at 12:45 PM

The Wall Street Journal launched its New York City section this week amidst a slew of newspaper-war headlines as Rupert... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s Junk Heap, Settlement?, Reuters’ Junk Heap

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 29, 2010 at 08:34 PM

The New York Times DealBook blog had an excellent post yesterday on "The Goldman E-mails, or How to Sell Junk."... More

Raise Your Right Hand, Boss

Wall Street’s testimony, like so many of its products, doesn’t add up.

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 29, 2010 at 06:50 PM

Bloomberg gets a bigtime scoop from a former Lehman in-house lawyer who says Dick Fuld lied to Congress about how... More