Audit Notes: WaPo hamster wheel, weather.com, bureaucracy’s upside

“At least a dozen pieces of content per day”

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Poynter's Andrew Beaujon reports this internal want ad for the Washington Post's once-vaunted Style section: This blogger should be able... More

WaPo will, finally, charge online

Anti-paywall forces routed in the US; attention shifts to Kings Cross

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2013 at 03:55 PM

The Washington Post is making it official: It will put up a metered paywall sometime this summer, the paper reports.... More

The Cyprus bailout fiasco

Get ready for a week (if we’re lucky) of euro crisis news

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM

The major news over the weekend was the continuing incompetence of Europe's policymakers, who seem determined to make the euro... More

Poor coverage of Google’s Street View scandal settlement

Incomplete accounts make the story more favorable to Mountain View

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM

Google paid $7 million to 38 states earlier this week to settle its Street View privacy scandal. This was a... More

Audit Notes: Weil embarrasses DOJ, Business Insider, revolving door

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil makes an amazing catch on the latest Ernst & Young wrist slap from the Justice Department, this... More

Joe Nocera’s big (old) Goldman scoop

NYT’s revealing reporting gets almost no play elsewhere

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Whoever thought the plight of executives and investors at eToys--one of the signal flops of the high tech bubble era--would... More

An ugly bit of blame-the-borrowers

Predatory lending is real, contra RealClearMarkets, and it particularly targets minorities

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets and Forbes really didn't like my take last week on that awful Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover. Here's... More

Audit Notes: Noonan forgets the stimulus, native ads, Mary Jo White

The WSJ columnist says Obama should have done things he actually did

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM

It's hard to pick the worst sentence in Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column this weekend, so let me just... More

Audit Notes: paywall time machine, Times-Picayune, Elizabeth Warren

What digital subscriptions could have done for newspapers a decade ago

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Ken Doctor writes a fantastic piece for Nieman Lab on charging for news. He notes that leaky paywalls are working... More

Dow 36,000, just around the corner (again)

Fourteen years after an infamous book and still 22,000 points down

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Back in 1999, two American Enterprise Institute guys, James K. Glassman and Kevin Hassett, wrote a book called Dow 36,000:... More

Audit Notes: too big to prosecute, the techno-utopian backlash

Attorney General Holder admits Wall Street gigantism deters Justice charges

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2013 at 07:40 AM

Lanny Breuer all but admitted it, but his former boss Eric Holder went all the way yesterday, telling Congress the... More

Audit Notes: NYT softballs, ad inventory, the future of the LAT

The Justice Department’s Lanny Breuer gets another weak exit interview

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM

How many parting kisses can outgoing senior administration officials collect from the press? Lanny Breuer, already given the puff treatment... More

The battle of New Orleans

Is Advance Publications securing the future of local news—or needlessly sacrificing it?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In May, as the New Orleans Times-Picayune put to bed an epic, eight-part investigation into Louisiana's prison system, its... More

More on that BusinessWeek cover

A firestorm over its unintentionally inflammatory art

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2013 at 11:45 PM

My post on this unfortunate Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover touched off a wave of fury on the intertubes this morning. First,... More

A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line

Minorities as greedy grotesqueries fueling a new housing bubble

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a lot edgier than its predecessor, at least where design is concerned. Sometimes it's too edgy, like... More

Commercialization of the academy: diet supplements edition

The LAT’s Hiltzik on professors who hawk Herbalife

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM

The Herbalife story is a business-press feast. You've got warring billionaires, the words "Ponzi scheme" being thrown around, a televised... More

Fortune on the French

France’s “unproductive labor force” is, in fact, quite productive

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2013 at 11:22 AM

The abrasive tire CEO Maurice Taylor made news last week when he lashed out at French workers as "lazy" good-for-nothings.... More

Audit Notes: Seattle paywall, private equity taxes, mortgage security fraud

The Seattle Times will charge online readers beginning next month

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM

The Seattle Times is the latest paper to join the paywall movement. It looks like it's basically copying The New... More

An eye on the Times-Picayune’s numbers

Some questions about what executives say are positive circulation trends

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2013 at 03:00 PM

We'll have a long story on the Times-Picayune next week, but Publisher Ricky Mathews and Editor Jim Amoss released some... More

Audit Notes: Hank the hero, Des Moines, Norwegian wood

The FT’s John Gapper reviews the former AIG CEO’s autobiography

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM

John Gapper's Financial Times review of the new Hank Greenberg (the disgraced former AIG CEO, not the All Star baseball... More