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1. The Audit

   The New York Times prepares to leave the content farm

   August 9, 2012 06:50 AM

   The New York Times Company looks set to exit the content-farm business, with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reporting that the company has signed a letter of intent to sell About.com for $270 million. It was never clear how a low-quality... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   A welcome spotlight on trade deals

   August 8, 2012 11:00 AM

   In March, the Obama administration implemented a trade agreement with South Korea that it promised, implausibly, would create tens of thousands of jobs to the U.S. While we've had just two monthly trade reports since the agreement went... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Auditor conflicts, Frannie holdup, London Whale pressured

   August 8, 2012 01:11 AM

   Francine McKenna looks at Deloitte's role in the latest money-laundering scandal and how it points to conflicts of interest in the auditing industry's business model: There’s big temptation for Deloitte or any of the Big Four audit firms who... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Singing on Libor, another bank scandal, Star Tribune

   August 7, 2012 06:50 AM

   The New York Times, in a good page-one story, reports that giant banks are selling each other out trying to scurry to safety in the Libor scandal. In trying to work out a deal, (Barclays) offered information on the... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Required skimming: Libor

   August 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Ian Fraser: The... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Audit Notes: California’s Enron echoes, Sox toolbox, the Dow’s decade

   August 5, 2012 06:50 AM

   — Michael Hiltzik had a good column two weeks ago on allegations that JPMorgan Chase manipulated California energy markets: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the regulator of the ISO and its trading markets, has started a formal investigation into... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   The Washington Post’s not-so-good earnings report

   August 3, 2012 03:39 PM

   Here's how the Washington Post covers its namesake parent company's dismal second-quarter earnings report: Washington Post Co. second-quarter profit up 13.6 percent Here's how everybody else covers the Washington Post's erns: Bloomberg News: Washington Post Profit Drops as... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Taibbi on TBTF, the paranoid rich, Olympics

   August 2, 2012 06:50 AM

   It's unclear why The New York Times is running op-eds on finance from a guy who is still operating under an SEC ban as part of a settlement in a kickback investigation. But Steve Rattner, Obama's former car czar, gets... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop

   August 1, 2012 11:10 AM

   The New York Times posts a flacktacular Business Day piece on a new hedge fund named Falcon Edge. This new hedge fund is profile-worthy because it has raised $1.2 billion and because its founder, Richard Gerson, used... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Audit Notes: News Corp.’s board, Romney’s taxes, NBC’s Olympics

    August 1, 2012 06:50 AM

    The Guardian's Nick Davis, with David Leigh, has another stunner on the hacking scandal. They report that Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, which last week charged eight News Corp. journalists and executives with crimes, is considering criminal charges against... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Twitter’s censors, NYT apology, Craigslist’s aggregators

    July 31, 2012 06:50 AM

    Twitter gave itself a serious black eye today, censoring a journalist for reporting the easy-to-figure-out corporate email address of NBC Universal's top Olympics executive. The Independent's LA bureau chief Guy Adams tweeted this today as part of his... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    When a news executive sits on a bank’s board

    July 23, 2012 11:00 AM

    It’s unusual—rare, even—for the CEO of a major financial news and information concern to serve on the board of directors of a giant global bank. There’s a reason for that. Rona Fairhead, who heads the Financial Times Group,... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    The WSJ on the fall of Nokia

    July 20, 2012 07:26 PM

    The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story on the fall of Finnish cellphone giant Nokia—the kind of deeply reported classic WSJ corporate leder we just don't see much anymore. It went and put a weak lede on... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Bloomberg on Libor, “can’t find workers” in the WSJ

    July 20, 2012 12:57 AM

    Bloomberg names names in the Libor investigation, reporting that at least 34 traders from more than a dozen banks are being examined: Regulators are examining the possible roles of Michael Zrihen at Credit Agricole, Didier Sander at HSBC and... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Ignoring Libor, Barron’s, rich kids and TV news

    July 19, 2012 06:50 AM

    The Washington Post's Erik Wemple points to Media Matters research that shows ABC's and NBC's nightly newscasts completely ignored the enormous Libor scandal unfolding here and in the UK during the first two weeks of the story.... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    More on NPR and manufactured quotes

    July 18, 2012 04:38 PM

    NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos (who teaches here at Columbia) takes a look at the network's poor showing with manufacturing sources over the last few weeks. I wrote about this last Tuesday, noting how a couple of small businessmen,... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Too big to fail football, Guardian digital numbers, WaPo

    July 18, 2012 06:50 AM

    It's not just the banks. Now elite college football programs are too big to fail, as well. Here's Bloomberg News on Penn State and a potential NCAA death penalty for its sexual-abuse scandal: If the NCAA levies the death... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    The WSJ Editorial Page and the Libor scandal

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    When wrongdoing by Big Business is in the news, you can usually count on the WSJ editorial page to do its best to downplay the story and shift the blame to its three favorite boogeymen: the press, the government, and... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Statute of limitations, whither The Daily, Romney’s taxes

    July 17, 2012 01:55 AM

    The Wall Street Journal is good to keep an eye on the statutes of limitation clocks that are running out on Wall Street fraud. The paper reports that a federal court ruled last year that the five year statute... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Whale, rent-a-quotes, shark videos

    July 13, 2012 03:00 PM

    This New York Times story on JPMorgan's regulators is not well edited, but it has some interesting reporting: At one point in the first quarter of this year, some of the examiners said that JPMorgan had simply stopped providing... Continue reading

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