Audit Notes: Swiped, Hit List, Journo Demographics

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 9, 2012 at 07:59 PM

Bloomberg News has an interesting story on a dispute between a Utah restaurant and Visa and Mastercard. The card companies... More

It’s the WSJ’s Turn on Romney’s Private Equity Record

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 9, 2012 at 02:34 PM

Mitt Romney's tenure at private-equity firm Bain Capital is the gift that will keep on giving for journalists. Reuters reported... More

Audit Notes: GE and Subprime, WaPo on Recess, Fed Fumes on Housing

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2012 at 08:04 PM

The Center for Public Integrity’s Michael Hudson continues one of the most important series of the last year, on how... More

Reuters on Romney’s Private-Equity Past

How Bain Capital profited as workers got crushed

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 6, 2012 at 03:15 PM

Reuters has a great look today at how Mitt Romney's Bain Capital loaded up a steel company with debt, mismanaged... More

Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM

Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More

The WSJ Eyes Analyst-Shopping

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 03:17 PM

Call me naive, but I didn't know that companies launching IPOs were still overtly shopping around for banks with favorable... More

Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum

The Audit’s deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 30, 2011 at 01:36 AM

Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a... More

Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 05:05 PM

How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart... More

The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error

Failing to attribute its deleted-messages assertion left it open to attack

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 01:14 PM

When The Guardian dropped its Milly Dowler bombshell back in July, I called the News Corporation hacking it reported "abhorrent... More

Audit Notes: Rattner Gets a Pass, NYT’s Golden Parachute, No Rhodes Scholar

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 06:50 PM

New York Times reporter Geraldine Fabrikant writes a column for Reuters, oddly, on the pass former New York Times reporter,... More

The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 05:07 PM

The Wall Street Journal continues to investigate the fuzzy intersection between Congress and insider trading, with a good page-one story... More

Bloomberg Takes on the Big Lie of the Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2011 at 03:16 PM

Bloomberg takes a crack at knocking down what Barry Ritholtz correctly calls the Big Lie of the crisis, that government... More

Audit Notes: Nocera on Frannie, The Fed’s Politics, Confidence Game

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM

Joe Nocera writes that the SEC's case against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives is "extraordinarily weak," relying on the... More

On the Record From Inside a Gilded Bubble

Bloomberg News profiles the beleaguered ultrarich

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 04:29 PM

Bloomberg's Max Abelson has quite an eye for the ridiculous. He's dug up an AIG executive's blame-shifting for the financial... More

Audit Notes: Inflation Inflation, FT on Frannie, Deep Downturns

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM

Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong catch Niall Ferguson in a whopper on inflation. Ferguson: And the reason the CPI is... More

Baby Doomers: The Trilogy

The Journal’s good look at a generation’s bleak retirement prospects

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2011 at 04:10 PM

Back in February, The Wall Street Journal's Jim Browning looked at how the Boomers are the first generation to retire... More

Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2011 at 06:20 PM

When The Huffington Post's Lila Pearl Shapiro wrote a critical story about Walmart's labor practices earlier this week, the company... More

Bloomberg Bird-Dogs Meredith Whitney’s Terrible Call

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2011 at 03:57 PM

Remember Meredith Whitney's apocalyptic predictions on the municipal-bond market last year? Bloomberg News does. And it makes sure Whitney and... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Empire Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2011 at 06:46 PM

Reuters's Jack Shafer writes that Bloomberg BusinessWeek has become the best magazine in the country, his "primary source of long-form,... More

Hudson on the Corporate Culture of Countrywide

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2011 at 01:12 PM

The Center for Public Integrity's Michael Hudson continues to turn up whistleblowers and pound on the culture of wrongdoing at... More