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Audit Notes: Hamster Madness, Times’s Tough Reporting, Fumes
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2010 at 07:37 PM
A wag sends this along with the note: "Newest use of WSJ reporting firepower." It's The Wall Street Journal liveblogging... More
Bill Black, Media Critic
And a good one, at that.
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2010 at 06:44 PM
Now here's a lede The Audit can get behind: If it wasn’t already blindingly obvious that pervasive fraud was at... More
Don’t Be Evil, Google
Bloomberg finds the tech giant is tops at using sketchy schemes to avoid taxes.
By Ryan Chittum Oct 21, 2010 at 12:47 PM
Bloomberg has a superb story out today exposing how tech giants, and particularly Google, are exploiting loopholes to avoid paying... More
The Plot Thickens at the CFTC
A judge accuses another judge of improprieties. But there’s more to the story.
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2010 at 09:37 PM
Say what? The Washington Post has a brief story reporting that one of two administrative judges at the Commodity Futures... More
The Landscape of the Foreclosure Scandal
Good reporting finds plenty of nondelinquent borrowers caught in a nightmare
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2010 at 03:59 PM
So what does it look like when the foreclosure fraud machine rolls over homeowners who aren't even in default? Remember... More
Colvin and Fortune’s Big Business Baloney
Swashbuckling titans of industry “paralyzed” by the threat of regulation
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Fortune again. This time it's Geoff Colvin, passing along the Chamber of Commerce line that "Uncertain of future regulation, businesses... More
Audit Notes: Feds Sniff Around, Hiltzik on Irani, Robosigners Plus
By Ryan Chittum Oct 19, 2010 at 07:13 PM
The Washington Post scoops that the feds have opened up a criminal investigation into the foreclosure scandal, "examining whether financial... More
Fortune Writer Steps Up for the Banks
Picking apart an apology for the foreclosure scandal
By Ryan Chittum Oct 19, 2010 at 06:34 PM
I criticized some journalists the other day for perpetuating the silly bank spin that the foreclosure fraud scandal is a... More
The Journal Hits Facebook Again on Privacy
By Ryan Chittum Oct 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM
The Wall Street Journal continues its excellent privacy series and unleashes another PR headache for Facebook, which is allowing third-party... More
Audit Notes: The Clayton Angle, NYT Savvy, AP on Robosigners
By Ryan Chittum Oct 15, 2010 at 07:50 PM
Felix Salmon and William D. Cohan pound on the Clayton Holdings story, which popped up again last month at a... More
The NYT On the Case That Started It All
Excellent story conception and execution on GMAC’s bungled foreclosure
By Ryan Chittum Oct 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM
The New York Times has a great angle on the foreclosure scandal: Go back to the homeowner that broke it... More
Audit Notes: Little Or a Lot, WSJ Hype Fail, Access Problem
By Ryan Chittum Oct 14, 2010 at 09:10 PM
The Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey calls bull on Jamie Dimon: On the J.P. Morgan Chase earnings call, Dimon promised that... More
Why Care About the Banks’ Foreclosure Scandal?
The blame-the-borrowers spin has begun
By Ryan Chittum Oct 14, 2010 at 08:09 PM
The pushback on the foreclosure scandal has already begun along predictable lines and amongst the usual suspects. It's blame the... More
The FT Gets Into the Game on Foreclosures
By Ryan Chittum Oct 14, 2010 at 01:12 PM
The Financial Times has a good piece of reporting on page one of today's paper that advances the ball on... More
Audit Notes: Foreclosure Mess, Wall Street, Dummies
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2010 at 08:01 PM
The New York Observer's Max Abelson has done some of the better reporting on How Wall Street Thinks. It's "let... More
What About Lending Fraud?
The foreclosure scandal offers the press a chance to revisit an undercovered story
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2010 at 01:57 PM
Bloomberg News does what I wish more of the press would do when reporting this foreclosure scandal story: Ask what... More
Audit Notes: Hamster Wheel: Chile; Carney, Ritholtz on the Foreclosure Scandal
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2010 at 07:44 PM
The Wall Street Journal just bragged (I think) on Twitter that "We have three reporters at the San Jose mine... More
The Press Bats Down Obama’s Chamber Smears
Almost certainly a bogus scandal on foreign money in the campaign
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2010 at 05:50 AM
It looks like the Democrats and Obama are trying to ape part of the campaign playbook perfected by Republicans: the... More
Audit Notes: U6 Hits 17.1 Percent, Facebook, “Inside Job”
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2010 at 07:49 PM
Unemployment seems bad enough when you look at the headlines talking about 9.6 percent. But here's a headline at the... More
The Journal Trails Badly on the Foreclosure Scandal
Beaten by smaller business staffs and a blogger
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2010 at 03:37 PM
So we've got a nationwide scandal in the still-crippled industry that caused the crisis in the first place—a scandal with... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
