Audit Notes: Subpar Tom Friedman, Big Lie of the Crisis, Obama on Fraud

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2012 at 09:34 PM

Today's Tom Friedman column is even worse than usual: In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job,... More

The Journal Takes Us Inside the Google Drugs Sting

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2012 at 06:36 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on how federal agents caught Google deliberately breaking the law... More

Audit Notes: Dimon the Persecuted, Mitt’s Taxes, Minimum Wage

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2012 at 02:32 AM

Yesterday we heard press favorite Jamie Dimon sputtering about how swipe-fee regulations, which capped how much big banks could gouge... More

Mitt Romney’s Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2012 at 04:21 PM

All the major papers are devoting lots of resources to covering Mitt Romney's tax return, putting the national spotlight on... More

Audit Notes: Kim Dotcom and SOPA, Private Equity, Swipe Fees

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2012 at 07:58 PM

The Kim Dotcom story is fascinating, and not just because the FBI had to get dozens of cops in New... More

Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls

Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 23, 2012 at 05:30 PM

As far as voices of support go, the news business probably wishes it could do better than a patent troll... More

Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2012 at 09:43 PM

Reuters's Scot J. Paltrow reports that Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder and the head of his criminal division worked for... More

Two Days, Two Good Investigations From Mollenkamp

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 20, 2012 at 02:31 PM

Carrick Mollenkamp is getting his post-WSJ days off to quite the start. On Wednesday, he wrote, with Lauren Tara LaCapra... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup, GOP and the Unemployed, SOPA

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2012 at 09:24 PM

Murdoch's hacking scandal flared up again today, as News Corporation paid out millions of pounds worth of settlements to victims... More

On Debt, Mitt’s of Two Minds

A career built on it and a campaign that rails against it

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM

Jesse Eisinger has a smart New York Times column on how Mitt Romney, fittingly perhaps, is running on debt while... More

Audit Notes: Gapper on SOPA, Japan’s Papers, Credit Card Antitrust

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 18, 2012 at 09:24 PM

The reaction from internet evangelists over the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act has bordered on hysteria.... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s BW Investment, Jobs For Robots, NCAA Injustice

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 17, 2012 at 08:02 PM

Chris Roush of TalkingBizNews looks at new Association of Magazine Media data and finds that business magazines are doing well—better... More

Paywalls: Maybe Not So Complicated After All

Thinking over Clay Shirky’s piece on the success of the NYT model

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 17, 2012 at 01:21 PM

Clay Shirky, a leading paywall skeptic, deserves credit for grappling with what is now generally conceded to be the clear... More

Audit Notes: Triple Dip; Bloomberg Terminals; Goldman, AIG, and the Fed

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2012 at 09:45 PM

Jeffrey Verschleiser is in the news for renting out the entire ninety-four room Hotel Jerome this weekend for his daughter's... More

Famous Last Words From the Fed

Assessing coverage of newly released transcripts from just before the crash

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2012 at 02:28 PM

The big papers go page one today, as they should, with reports on newly released transcriptions from 2006 Federal Reserve... More

Audit Notes: Romney’s Black Box, Banker Probe, Laffer Curveball

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01 PM

Politico makes a good point about how reporters are having something of a hard time assessing Mitt Romney's tenure at... More

Misleading Readers on Romney’s “$12 Million Teardown”

The value is almost all in the land

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2012 at 02:43 PM

We've heard a lot about $12 million teardowns lately. Tiger Woods's ex-wife Elin Nordegren is tearing down her $12 million... More

The Banker Finds Possible “Trouble” at Chase (UPDATED)

Debt-collection lawsuits dry up in at least five states, raising questions about past practices

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2012 at 02:13 PM

Back in June, The Wall Street Journal reported a big scoop that press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase had dropped... More

Audit Notes: Kent State Court, Corporate Taxes, the Communion Wafer Industry

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2012 at 07:31 PM

Hats off to The Daily Kent Stater and reporter Doug Brown for exposing how the university was about to name... More

Wall Street’s Toxic Touch

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 10, 2012 at 03:22 PM

Bloomberg View's Mark Whitehouse points to a fascinating report on new evidence showing how badly Wall Street screwed investors in... More