Apple’s Speech Policies Should Still Worry the Press

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Apple has asked Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore to "resubmit" his iPhone/iPad application for approval, with Steve Jobs saying it... More

Audit Notes: SEC and Stanford, Goldman and Wells, Murdoch’s Personal Feuds

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2010 at 08:33 PM

You've got to love this SEC investigation. I mean, of the SEC, not by it. Talking Points Memo revisits an... More

Springtime for Investigations as the SEC Acts

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2010 at 03:18 PM

It looks from the newspapers this morning like the dam has finally broken on prosecuting the crisis scandals. The New... More

Audit Notes: Goldman, Goldman, Goldman (What Else?)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 05:30 PM

Marian Wang of ProPublica has a sharp follow-up to the blockbuster news that the SEC is charging Goldman Sachs with... More

Angelides, The Audit, and Unfair Lending

An ex-regulator’s testimony to the commission needs examining

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 04:40 PM

Comptroller of The Audit Dean Starkman spent three months last year poring over nearly a decade of financial-press archives to... More

Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Are a Business-Press Win

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM

The New York Times's Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson score a major scoop this morning with news that the SEC... More

Audit Notes: First FOIA Bank Run?, Demand a Second Opinion, Doctor

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 06:58 PM

The big banks are continuing to fight Bloomberg's Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Fed, which would force it to... More

It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple

Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 05:21 PM

The Nieman Journalism Lab's Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees... More

Missing the Mortgage-Mod Story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Still think The Huffington Post is just an aggregator of lefty opinion and tabloid fluff? Okay, it's still that, but... More

Audit Notes: Say What, CME?; Magnetar Wrong; A Monster, All Right

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2010 at 06:10 PM

Felix Salmon examines the newly released unredacted version of the Valukas Report and finds what he calls a scandal in... More

Chittum, CJR Tweet Fleet Caught Napping

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2010 at 09:51 AM

New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia and TalkingBizNews's Chris Roush take me to the woodshed this morning for an... More

Audit Notes: Lehman Inquiries Spike, Salmon on Blogging, Derivatives

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2010 at 06:37 PM

Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business News reports that investigators are now zooming in on three areas of Lehman's accounting, including... More

Krugman Throws Stone at Sorkin from His Glass House

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2010 at 03:15 PM

It's New York Times columnist vs. New York Times columnist. Paul Krugman hammers his colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin for getting... More

More Shades of Enron in NYT’s Lehman Scoop

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2010 at 09:38 AM

Lehman Brothers is smelling an awful lot like Enron these days. The New York Times splashes a scoop by Louise... More

Audit Notes: Median American Family, Bank Hole, A Wolff in Wolf’s Clothing

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2010 at 06:34 PM

Listen up, business press: Zero Hedge runs a great guest post by Graham Summers looking at why Average Joe and... More

Old-Fashioned WSJ Leder Spotted in the Wild

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2010 at 01:04 PM

The Wall Street Journal goes back to its roots with an excellent old-fashioned leder this morning. It's a well-told tale... More

ProPublica Humdinger on a Diabolical CDO Scheme

Investigation shows in detail how hedge-fund Magnetar gamed the system and kept the bubble going

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 9, 2010 at 06:51 PM

Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica have a fantastic investigation out today of Magnetar, a short-selling hedge fund that... More

WSJ Story Shows Repo 105 Was Just the Beginning

An excellent investigation uncovers Wall Street hiding its true debt levels

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM

This is what you call a great piece of enterprise reporting. The Wall Street Journal this morning has a major... More

Audit Notes: FHLB Bomb, Subprime Fraud, Gannett Is Cheap

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2010 at 06:16 PM

Bloomberg's Jon Weil has the Lede of the Day, writing about a "trillion-dollar time bomb": The Federal Home Loan Banks... More

Fortune FAIL: One-Source Story on Credit-Card Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2010 at 02:31 PM

Ah, the one-source story. Nasty habit of Bloomberg and the Financial Times—and now Fortune. The magazine interviews Wall Street analyst... More