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

Blodget Asks a Taboo Question on Wages and Profits

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 04:08 PM

I like this Henry Blodget thought experiment on how much more major companies could afford to compensate their ill-paid employees.... More

Audit Notes: TP Bubble, No More “Fat Cats,” Big Long Now

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at one growing American industry the Internet and the Chinese can't wipe out:... More

For The Sun, Karma Is No Fun

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 15, 2012 at 04:35 PM

Rupert Murdoch's Sun is in big trouble. Reuters reports today that Scotland Yard is investigating "serious suspected criminality over a... More

Audit Notes: Government Spending, News Corp., The Machines Rise

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2012 at 11:58 PM

The New Yorker's George Packer deftly riffs off both Charles Murray's new book on turmoil in the white lower and... More

Cops in the Newsroom

The News Corp. fiasco imperils press protections in the UK

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2012 at 05:33 PM

I noted this yesterday about News Corporation's Management Standards Committee, set up over the summer to handle the company’s internal... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal, Chipotle Not Apple

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 13, 2012 at 08:01 PM

Murdoch's hacking scandal deepened this weekend with the arrests of several senior journalists at another News Corporation paper—The Sun— in... More

Pogue Misses on Cheap Gadgets and Foreign Labor

The cost difference between China and the U.S. is less than he imagines

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 10, 2012 at 04:16 PM

David Pogue of The New York Times looks at the "Dilemma of Cheap Electronics" raised by the paper's recent, outstanding... More

Audit Notes: Energy Economy, Insider Trading, Mortgage Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 PM

Here's a good Wall Street Journal page-one story on how the energy boom is driving economic activity across the U.S.... More

BusinessWeek Goes Inside a Critical Hacking Scandal Meeting

Murdoch, at a fork in the road, chose the coverup

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 02:20 PM

Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a fantastic story reporting on a critical meeting Rupert Murdoch held last May to plot how to... More