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1. The Audit

   WSJ’s Bold Plan to Expand Subscription Revenues

   May 11, 2009 08:26 AM

   Rupert Murdoch of late has been making the boldest noises of anyone in the newspaper industry on the search for new business models. Last week, he told investors that News Corp. is going to start charging online readers of... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Press Buries the GAO’s Damning Report on the SEC

   May 8, 2009 12:43 PM

   Speaking of Moe Tkacik: She points out a General Accountability Office report on the SEC that got woefully underplayed in the press this week—and pulls out some gems. The GAO reported that former chairman Christopher Cox "created an... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Journal’s Accountability Reporting Gets a Major Scalp

   May 8, 2009 09:07 AM

   That didn't take long. Stephen Friedman, the New York Fed chairman and Goldman Sachs director shareholder, whose conflicts were exposed by the Journal on Monday, resigned from the Fed. It's a score for the WSJ, reporters Kate Kelly and... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Center for Public Integrity Puts the Subprime Puzzle Together

   May 7, 2009 04:02 PM

   The Center for Public Integrity yesterday released a dynamite report on the interconnections between Wall Street and the subprime-mortgage industry. It's after The Audit's very heart, and it's gotten wide play in the press, including on the front page... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Murdoch Leads the Charge on Paid Content

   May 7, 2009 01:16 PM

   Say what you will about Rupert Murdoch (and we have), the guy's a smart businessman. Last week, I reported that Murdoch himself was "displeased" that the Journal is free on iPhone and Blackberry and that charging would begin in... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   They Are CNBC

   May 7, 2009 09:48 AM

   Make sure you don't miss my friend Moe Tkacik's piece on CNBC, hot off the presses in the Columbia Journalism Review and new online here. Here's Tkacik on Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli: If Cramer does share anything with... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   WSJ Compares German and American Safety Nets

   May 7, 2009 09:15 AM

   I like this Wall Street Journal page-one "leder" looking at the difference in the European and American safety nets and how that affects workers and the economies. It also broadens the story's implications with a good nut graph about... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Kindle a Newspaper Life Saver?

   May 6, 2009 03:12 PM

   Is this the gadget that will save the newspaper? That angle has been, if not dominant, then significant in the ramped up coverage of the new, bigger Kindle, which Amazon, with the help of one Arthur Sulzberger Jr., unveiled... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Bloomberg Squawked, Regulators Balked

   May 6, 2009 12:57 PM

   Speaking of insider trading of credit-default swaps (you just can't get enough!), Felix Salmon of Reuters digs up a prescient Bloomberg story about that from 2006. Here was Bloomberg's headline: Credit-Default Swaps May Incite Regulators Over Insider... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Credit-Default Swaps: WSJ vs. NYT

    May 6, 2009 09:38 AM

    Which story about insider trading of credit-default swaps would you rather read? Here's the Journal's C1 lede: The Securities and Exchange Commission brought its first-ever case alleging insider trading in credit-default swaps -- an opaque derivative investment at... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    The Journal After Murdoch

    May 5, 2009 05:12 PM

    The latest issue of our magazine is out, and the first piece we've put online is Liza Featherstone's look at The Wall Street Journal under Rupert Murdoch. Featherstone finds that while the apocalypse has clearly not happened, the paper... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    BizWeek Takes on Confusing Contracts

    May 5, 2009 01:53 PM

    BusinessWeek uses the administration's plan to crack down on credit-card companies as a jumping-off point to look at how it got so easy for them to abuse their consumers. One big reason: Contracts that let banks change any term... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Bloomberg Cuts Through the Corporate-Tax Spin

    May 5, 2009 09:19 AM

    I like Bloomberg's tack on the Obama corporate-taxes story, reporting on real examples of tax avoidance—ones that counter Big Business's spin better than any he-said/she-said. Obama wants to raise a couple of hundred billion dollars over the next decade... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    John R. Wilke, Longtime Journal Reporter, Dies at 54

    May 4, 2009 03:45 PM

    Longtime Wall Street Journal reporter John R. Wilke died of cancer this weekend and it's a big loss for financial journalism. Wilke was one of the top investigative reporters at the paper and in the business, getting scoop after... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    WSJ Exposes the New York Fed Chairman

    May 4, 2009 01:57 PM

    The Journal fronts a scoop that the chairman of the New York Fed not only held Goldman Sachs shares in violation of Fed policy but loaded up on more of them while his appeal for an exemption was under... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    Chrysler Cramdown in Context

    May 4, 2009 09:17 AM

    If you read the coverage of the Chrysler bankruptcy a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, you might have come away confused about how likely the Obama administration's plan is to go through.... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Bloomberg Pushes Hard on Credit-Raters Story

    May 1, 2009 04:32 PM

    Bloomberg has done a good job keeping the credit raters in the spotlight, and its latest story shines a harsh one on Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings. The Berg doesn't dance around the fact that the credit-ratings... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    WSJ’s Free iPhone App: Rupert “Displeased”

    May 1, 2009 04:02 PM

    I wrote last week that The Wall Street Journal was screwing up by not charging for its swell new iPhone application and its somewhat-older BlackBerry one, despite charging good money for its website and for a paper subscription. Amy... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    NYT Muni-Bond Story Effects Quick Change

    May 1, 2009 11:36 AM

    The good Times story on small-town Tennessee losing big on derivatives is getting quick results. The state is planning "revolutionary" regulation to pretty much prohibit municipalities from using derivatives at all, the Times reports today: The comptroller, Justin... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    The Economy Is Much Worse Than the Numbers Say

    May 1, 2009 09:15 AM

    Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture said a couple of days ago that the abysmal GDP numbers, down 6.1 percent in the first quarter, were artificially improved by the collapse of imports. Today, he follows up with a note... Continue reading

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