The WaPo Ombudsman’s Faulty Paywall Analysis

The NYT’s meter is saving or adding more than $70 million in revenue a year already

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2012 at 02:17 AM

Washington Post ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton has a flawed analysis on the logic of a possible paywall there and on... More

Audit Notes: Hollywood Rolls, Ryan’s Loopholes, Regulation and Racing

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2012 at 01:40 AM

Looking at this Wall Street Journal graphic, you'd think Hollywood has been on some kind of epic roll the last... More

Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront

Not a good idea, Business Insider

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2012 at 02:48 PM

Business Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront.... More

Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2012 at 07:35 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil just guts a Center for Public Integrity report card on state corruption. It found that New Jersey... More

The AP’s Weak Coverage of Its New Boss

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2012 at 03:07 PM

The Associated Press has a new CEO. So how does the AP cover it? Not very well. AP hired McClatchy... More

The WSJ on the GOP’s $36 Million Man

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2012 at 06:10 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on a billionaire you've probably never heard of who's become... More

Audit Notes: Skynet News, Gawker’s High-Low Strategy, Oil Speculators

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2012 at 03:13 AM

Evgeny Morozov has a must-read piece at Slate on the rise of journalism bots, which Forbes now employs to write... More

Gawker Misreads the WSJ on Vaccines and Immunity (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2012 at 02:42 AM

Gawker totally misreads a Wall Street Journal story on numbskulls who don't vaccinate their kids, writing that it means "Oregonian... More

Audit Notes: Newspaper of the Year, Leverage, Wemple vs. Wolff

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM

In 2011, The Guardian had one of the best years any paper has ever had. Its reporting on the systemic... More

The NYT Paywall Hums Along

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 20, 2012 at 03:34 PM

The New York Times's paywall continues to outperform expectations at its first birthday. The paper says it now has 454,000... More

Audit Notes: Responsible Populism, Tom Frank on Elites, Shlaes and Inflation

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2012 at 11:52 PM

Simon Johnson writes about what he calls "responsible populism," not populism as it is so often portrayed in the press... More

Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2012 at 07:55 PM

You might think this is an Onion-style parody of a column by a right-wing think tanker: But it's no joke.... More

Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 08:35 PM

Quote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley... More

Audit Notes: 1966 Wages, Fracking’s Chickens and Eggs, Whistleblowers

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 02:35 AM

David Cay Johnston looks at the latest income-distribution data from Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, and notes that in this... More

The NAA Newspaper Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 02:16 AM

Alan Mutter looks at the 2011 numbers out of the Newspaper Association of America, which he notes were "quietly published."... More

Mad Libs, New York Times Executive Pay Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2012 at 06:45 PM

The New York Times likes to inveigh against executive compensation practices on its editorial pages, and its newsroom has done... More

Audit TV: Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 07:58 PM

Audit Boss Dean Starkman's cover story in the last issue of CJR argued that business journalism had narrowed its gaze... More

Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 02:06 PM

It's tempting to get all savvy and snarky about Greg Smith's op-ed in The New York Times this morning on... More

Audit Notes: Fast Food Nation at 10, U.S. Inequality, Marilyn Hagerty

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 12:40 AM

Eric Schlosser revisits his muckraking epic Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal for The Daily Beast,... More

American Banker Delves into Debt-Collecting Woes at Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2012 at 03:26 PM

It looks more and more like the foreclosure scandal is a symptom of a larger problem. American Banker's Jeff Horwitz... More