Audit Notes: low-info billionaires, Trump the taker, Elizabeth Warren

Money apparently can’t buy a firm grip on reality

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM

One of the things this election proved conclusively is that even billionaires can be low-information voters. Here's Bloomberg BusinessWeek on... More

WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign

A too-savvy take and flawed assumptions undermine some interesting reporting

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Wall Street Journal fronts an interesting but seriously flawed story this morning headlined "How Race Slipped Away From Romney."... More

Audit Notes: FT denies Bloomberg report, Drudge stats, financialization

Misleading with bogus statistics

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Bloomberg News reports that Pearson is considering putting the Financial Times up for sale, as Michael Wolff predicted a month... More

Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists

French publishing’s online revenues make the Americans look good

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM

This New York Times story is nice on the coming attempt in Europe to get Google to pay content providers... More

A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack

The wire’s poorly worded story is misread

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Mitt Romney's gotten in hot water with the nation's burgeoning horde of fact checkers by asserting that Jeep "is thinking... More

Bloomberg digs up more on Romney’s tax avoidance

This loophole used the Mormon church’s tax-exempt status to defer bills

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns beyond two years in which he was already actively campaigning for president, and... More

The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman

CNBC’s Becky Quick thinks, wrongly, the economist is alone in debunking “fiscal crisis”

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM

This summer, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went on CNBC to talk about his book and ended up getting... More

Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity

WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven’t pulled away from everyone else

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The New Republic's Timothy Noah and The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien demolish a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kevin "Dow 36,000"... More

The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT

Digital subs keep a weak earnings report from turning into a disastrous one

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM

New York Times Company shares plummeted Thursday as ad revenues were worse than expected, pushing down profits from a year... More

Audit Notes: NYT scoop, Freddie’s anti-stimulus, Wired on making stuff

Riches for the family of a top Chinese official

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The New York Times David Barboza gets a huge scoop on corruption in China, reporting that the family of the... More

Audit Notes: dethroning DeMarco, the cult of disruption, China trade

The FT reports Obama plans a big housing policy change if re-elected

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Financial Times's Shahien Nasiripour reports that the Obama administration is quietly telling activists that it will replace Fannie Mae/Freddie... More

Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags

Not all is dark for the industry

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM

News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for... More

Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith

An excellent personal-finance story from the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM

What would Social Security coverage look like if the press covered it more like personal finance reporters cover IRAs and... More

Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch

The NYT looks at the insider/outsider roles of Anita Dunn

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The New York Times had an excellent story this weekend on Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who's got one foot... More

A CEO’s high-flying standards

Bloomberg reports on Abercrombie & Fitch’s Michael Jeffries

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM

We've seen $87,000 rugs and $6,000 shower curtains. But this fascinating Bloomberg story on Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO Michael Jeffries... More

Audit Notes: Google antitrust, the NYT on entrenched elites

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Reuters scoops that the Federal Trade Commission is leaning toward filing antitrust charges against Google for abusing its search monopoly... More

The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop

Emails between executives look like antitrust smoking guns

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM

A tip of The Audit's green eyeshade to The New York Times for fighting to get this look inside the... More

A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC

The network’s tweet creates a misleading media narrative on the veep debate

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2012 at 03:57 AM

Whoever was running the CNBC Twitter feed last night didn't know the difference between a scientific poll and a Web... More

Audit Notes: fraud without fraudsters edition

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan shareholders, not executives, held accountable

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM

The Wall Street Journal fronts news that the feds are suing Wells Fargo for a decade of mortgage fraud that... More

Ask Obama This: What about housing?

What went wrong with the administration’s mortgage policies

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 11, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More