Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Lobbyists, Reuters on Chesapeake, Shadow Space (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   May 1, 2012 at 01:40 AM

Top News Corporation officials talked about enlisting the top Wall Street Journal Europe editor to lobby politicians for Murdoch's multibillionaire... More

The WSJ’s Monster Market Move

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle hits the merger beat with Coca-Cola deal-talks story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 30, 2012 at 07:23 PM

Here's what you like to see if you're a business reporter with a scoop on a big merger or acquisition:... More

Audit Notes: Davies on Murdoch, Banks Eye the Poor for Fees, TARP ROI

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2012 at 08:53 PM

Nick Davies writes in The Guardian that, after a second day of questioning under oath, "Rupert Murdoch is in trouble...... More

Bloomberg on Cherry-Picking Executive “Peers” to Inflate Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2012 at 02:08 PM

Bloomberg News has a good piece on how companies inflate CEO pay by comparing them to "peers" that are out... More

Audit Notes: The ER Boiler Room, Jeremy Hunt, UK Austerity Fails

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM

Jessica Silver-Greenberg has an alarming page-one story in The New York Times on how hospitals are letting in third-party debt... More

The Journal Misses on Ebooks and Antitrust

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 25, 2012 at 07:55 PM

It's usually wise to read an "experts say" story a little more skeptically than you normally would. That's the case... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch Minister Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 24, 2012 at 08:03 PM

The Murdoch scandal heated (hotted?) up yet again today with James Murdoch's testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, and it now... More

60 Minutes Revisits Lehman, Valukas, and Repo 105

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 24, 2012 at 07:19 PM

Remember the Valukas Report? That court-appointed bankruptcy examiner'sinvestigation into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found a number of colorable claims... More

Audit Notes: Blame the Lenders, Government Scandals, Corrections

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 24, 2012 at 01:38 AM

Abigail Caplovitz Field at Firedoglake writes a good post explaining why the blame-the-borrowers meme is ultimately misguided—and dangerous: Houses are... More

The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 23, 2012 at 06:38 PM

David Barstow's epic Wal-Mart investigation in the Sunday New York Times has already lopped $10 billion off the company's market... More

Audit Notes: The Pentagon’s Privatized Propaganda, Chesapeake, Inequality

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 10:43 PM

This story is just amazing: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to... More

The NYT Goes Backward on Digital Ads

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 05:14 PM

The New York Times Company's first quarter earnings, reported yesterday, left a lot to be desired. About.com, the company's web-only... More

Audit Notes: Luskin and Krugman, Bailouts, Minimum Wage,

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 02:18 AM

Brad DeLong catches Donald Luskin in a doozy. Luskin calls out Paul Krugman for saying in 2000 that the Dow... More

Excellent Reuters Probe Uncovers a CEO’s Billion-Dollar Loans

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2012 at 07:51 PM

Reuters has a fantastic piece of enterprise reporting on natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, reporting on serious conflicts of interest... More

Audit TV: Dean Starkman at the Narrative Arc Conference

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM

Take a look at Audit Chief Dean Starkman's speech last month to the Narrative Arc conference at Boston University. Dean's... More

Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00 AM

Michael Lewis, who says he sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Street movement, interviews himself on what he would do if... More

The New York Times Company in 2015

Trendlines—as of right now—don’t point to its demise

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2012 at 07:17 PM

Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? That's unknowable, of course. A lot can... More

Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2012 at 02:21 AM

Bloomberg's Mark Whitehouse is good to report that as the Eurocrisis flares again, with Spain in the spotlight now, investors... More

Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2012 at 07:49 PM

David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department... More