WSJ on the Return of the Online Pet Food Store

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2012 at 05:41 PM

I like this smart Wall Street Journal piece on the new economics of the Web as told through the effort... More

Checkbook Journalism’s Slippery Slope

Murdoch’s scandals show why paying for news is a bad idea

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Combine the culture of checkbook journalism with the culture of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and you get one of the... More

Audit Notes: William Cohan, Three Little Pigs, Recovery Spring

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2012 at 01:14 AM

In Bloomberg BusinessWeek, William D. Cohan writes about the spectacular downfall of hedge fund manager Dan Zwirn, whose $12 billion... More

That Stuck Feeling

The Huffington Post launches an ambitious new series on the poor and middle class

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2012 at 03:14 PM

We all had a chuckle yesterday at the poor hedge fund marketing director whining about the difficulties of living in... More

Audit Notes: Paywalls Paying Off, Digital Privacy, Murdoch

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 29, 2012 at 07:54 PM

As Warren Buffett knows, when you give away your product online, it undermines the one you charge good money for... More

Bloomberg’s Abelson on How Wall Street Is Coping

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 29, 2012 at 01:53 PM

Bloomberg's Max Abelson has the story of the day, another entry in his list of stories on out-of-touch Wall Streeters.... More

Audit Notes: $25,000 an Hour, Foreclosures, Corporate Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2012 at 08:03 PM

The New York Times has done a lot of tough reporting over the years on outlandish executive compensation. It's time... More

Warren Buffett and Paywalls

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2012 at 05:53 PM

The newspaper paywall now has a champion in some guy in Nebraska named Warren Buffett. Buffett, who just forked over... More

Audit Notes: Daisey vs. Pogue, American Banker, LAT Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2012 at 08:37 PM

Mike Daisey, of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the recent This American Life exposé of Apple's outsourced... More

The Keystone Kops of Koverups

A Telegraph scoop raises the heat yet again on News Corp. and the Murdochs

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2012 at 01:19 PM

The Telegraph has a big scoop on the hacking scandal, reporting new details of how News Corporation deleted emails and... More

Audit Notes: Lobbying Both Ways, SEC Scrutiny, Steve Jobs,

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM

The banks have been carping about the complexity of the Volcker Rule, which aims to prevent them from making risky... More

Mitt Romney and Marriott’s Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

Mitt Romney's taxes were all over the news last month when it turned out he paid just 13.9 percent of... More

Audit Notes: Tax Break, No Wage Pressure, Clowning Schneiderman

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2012 at 12:54 AM

Reuters's David Cay Johnston has a good column today on why tax rates are lower than we generally think: We... More

The IRS and the Chicago News Cooperative (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2012 at 03:23 PM

I wrote back in November that the tax man was making it harder for the nonprofit-news movement to flourish or... More

Audit Notes: Fed Transparency, Carp Invasion, Chinese Imports

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2012 at 01:38 AM

The Wall Street Journal is good to bird-dog the Federal Reserve on transparency, and it gets results even before publishing... More

The “Can’t Find Workers” Meme

The Post’s business-friendly frame

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 21, 2012 at 07:59 PM

In a time when millions of American workers can't find work, it's only natural to be intrigued by counterintuitive stories... More

Audit Notes: Limited Liability, Apple’s “Tons of Issues,” Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 17, 2012 at 07:44 PM

The London Review of Books has a fascinating piece by the Bank of England's Andrew Haldane on excessive financial-industry risk.... More

The WSJ Exposes Google’s Tracking Hack

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 17, 2012 at 01:40 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop this morning on how Google and other companies overrode Apple privacy settings... More

Anthony Shadid: What He Knew

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 17, 2012 at 12:26 AM

The foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid of The New York Times, has died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the... More

Audit Notes: WSJ and FCPA, Apple Access, The Times Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 09:19 PM

The Wall Street Journal editorial page comes out swinging against the Justice Department's "latest prosecutorial attack on business" via the... More