Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 08:05 PM

Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, writes a good Slate piece... More

Bloomberg Scrutinizes JPMorgan Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 06:58 PM

Bloomberg News has an important story today showing how press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase has ramped up risk in... More

The Minimum Wage in Context

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 02:18 AM

The New York Times reports that even in a weak economy, there's a fairly serious push for increasing the historically... More

Ebooks and Antitrust

The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2012 at 07:56 PM

Back in 2010, a giant retailer had 90 percent of a market—a near total monopoly (monopsony, if you want to... More

Audit Notes: Dodger Money, Social News Apps, U.S. Mowing Bills

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2012 at 01:26 AM

Andrew Ross Sorkin writes a tough column on the group of investors buying (or supposedly buying) the Los Angeles Dodgers... More

The Seattle Times Takes On Hometown Amazon

A tough series on the dark side of the booming local company

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM

Here in Seattle, Amazon is growing like crazy, adding thousands of jobs and building several skyscrapers just off downtown, something... More

Audit Notes: Wells Bells, Nontaxpayers, Facebook Apps and Privacy

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 10, 2012 at 01:28 AM

The Huffington Post reports that Elizabeth Magner, a federal judge in Louisiana, hit Wells Fargo with $3.1 million in punitive... More

Audit Notes: Paul Ryan’s Very Serious Budget, The London Whale

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2012 at 06:14 PM

Paul Krugman hammers colleague David Brooks today, writing about unnamed commentators "pretending to be moderates or at any rate only... More

The Ethics of Social News Apps

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2012 at 04:02 PM

I don't know about you but my Facebook feed has gotten creepy and cringeworthy these days, and it's thanks to... More

Audit Notes: Sky News Hacking, JPMorgan Fined, False Balance

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2012 at 01:59 AM

Murdoch's hacking scandal continues to metastasize, spreading to Sky News now, which admitted when asked by The Guardian that it... More

NYT Examines Chris Christie’s Corporate Welfare Machine

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2012 at 07:55 PM

Charlie Bagli takes a nice look in The New York Times at the corporate-welfare machine that is Chris Christie's administration... More

Audit Notes: Shareholder Revolution Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2012 at 01:39 AM

This AlterNet piece finds some revealing quotes from the Business Roundtable that show how that influential group's views on who... More

All You Can Eat Magazines

Ken Doctor reports on a promising venture from five major publishers

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 4, 2012 at 07:51 PM

Ken Doctor has a very interesting report for the Nieman Journalism Lab on the new consortium called Next Issue Media... More

Audit Notes: NBC’s Selective Edits, Bloomberg Clickbait, Secrecy

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 4, 2012 at 12:34 AM

NBC News has apologized for editing tapes of George Zimmerman's 911 call to make it look like he said Trayvon... More

What Do I Owe You?

Don’t ask Bank of America

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 3, 2012 at 07:18 PM

When a bank sells bad debts to third-party collectors, the first order of business would seem to be to tell... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s CDOs, Too Big to Fail Consensus, Need to Know

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 3, 2012 at 01:34 AM

Fortune's Stephen Gandel reports that the SEC is likely to file fraud charges against Goldman Sachs for its 2006 Fremont... More

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Cuts the Guruspeak

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2012 at 07:43 PM

Capital New York takes a quick but revealing look at how and why Bloomberg BusinessWeek has revolutionized the business magazine,... More

Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM

Ken Doctor has a good post for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab on why news organizations need to be ramping up... More

Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2012 at 05:42 PM

I've never understood quite why, in a digital age that allows companies to sell directly to their customers, that book... More

Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2012 at 07:34 PM

The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in... More