Audit Notes: Copying the NYT Paywall, WaMu, The 0.1 Percent

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 06:16 PM

Jeff Bercovici of Forbes responds to my post calling on papers to follow the NYT's lead on charging for news... More

Newspaper Companies As Emblems of the 1 Percent

David Carr rips Gannett’s $37 million golden parachute

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 04:32 PM

"Gannett paper" has long been a pejorative in journalism circles. So how about "Gannett executive"? The nation's biggest newspaper chain... More

ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM

I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... More

Audit Notes: Paying for Newspapers Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM

I may have spoken too soon when I said to expect The New York Times's paid subscription growth rate to... More

NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”

There’s no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times’s model

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM

If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country... More

Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM

This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional... More

Bloomberg Eyes Bank of America’s Derivatives Move

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Bloomberg News reports that Bank of America (with Federal Reserve approval) put Merrill Lynch credit-default swaps into BofA's deposit-holding arm... More

Homeless Shelters 4 AT&T-Verizon Duopoly

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 17, 2011 at 03:17 PM

In June, Politico and the Washington Post ran stories showing how, in exchange for Ma Bell's cash, nonprofits like NAACP... More

HuffPost Finds the Pain in Goldman’s For-Profit Education Firm

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2011 at 06:46 PM

It's not hard to imagine that letting boiler rooms push poor folks into taking out impossible-to-shed federal loans is a... More

Audit Notes: Economic Policy Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 07:17 PM

Ezra Klein, in his long story (which you should read) on why and how Obama's economic policy failed (I should... More

WSJ Backs Up The Guardian on European Scandal

Its reporting disputes its parent company’s denials

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Last night, Dow Jones slammed The Guardian's report on wrongdoing at The Wall Street Journal Europe, calling it "replete with... More

Wall Street Journal Europe Sourcing Was Unusual

And the CEO of the firm involved is a former Journal executive

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:35 PM

We now know, thanks to reporting in the both The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal itself, that Andrew Langloff,... More

The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal

The paper claims the scalp of a Journal publisher and points to deeper problems

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:19 PM

Read this Wall Street Journal story from this morning on the resignation of its European edition's publisher. What the Journal... More

The China Bubble

WSJ, Reuters, and Bloomberg reports show why a reckoning is likely

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM

We've all heard about the crisis in Europe, how it's weighing on the economy, and how a collapse there could... More

The Shorter-Form Journal

The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 10, 2011 at 09:40 PM

Story length in journalism by itself doesn’t mean much. We read too many news stories that are just too damned... More

Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM

American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More

A Weak Case for the Middle Class Embracing Globalization

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 7, 2011 at 02:47 PM

Reuters’s David Rohde writes about Bowling Green, Kentucky, and how it’s doing well by embracing globalization. But it’s a pretty... More

Bailing Out the Bailed Out From TARP (Updated)

The WSJ on a Treasury “slush fund” for banks

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 6, 2011 at 02:28 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece of reporting today on a Treasury program ostensibly meant to boost small... More

Audit Notes: Steve Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 6, 2011 at 02:08 AM

Here's Wired's striking homepage reporting the death of Steve Jobs: Scroll down and you get gray text with obituary comments... More

Wichita Eagle Eyes Regulatory Cracks Before a Failure

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 5, 2011 at 05:47 PM

Here's a solid Wichita Eagle report that shows the holes in a regulatory system—ones that could have deadly consequences. What... More