Lazy Summer Musings from the WSJ D.C. Bureau

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2009 at 01:36 PM

The Wall Street Journal wants you to know why the town halls were so rowdy this summer. Here's its stilted... More

NYT’s Rejoinder on Obama and the Deficit

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2009 at 02:48 PM

Last Wednesday, I got on the Washington Post for a poor page-one story on the $9 trillion budget deficit—a piece... More

Bloomberg on the Derivatives Lobby

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Bloomberg this morning takes a hard look on the Wall Street lobby, writing that it's "suiting up for a battle... More

What’s Going Down on the Farm? Ask the Bankers

The devolution of The Wall Street Journal’s page one

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 28, 2009 at 03:51 PM

Gawker had an interesting quote from an anonymous Wall Street Journal staffer this morning on the Mark Penn controversy. "While... More

WaPo: Big Bad Banks Are Getting Bigger, Badder

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 28, 2009 at 01:04 PM

The Washington Post has a story after my own heart this morning on how the Too Big to Fail guys... More

FOI MIA at the FDIC

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 27, 2009 at 08:40 PM

American Banker reported earlier this week that the FDIC has done an about-face on disclosure—and not in the right direction.... More

One Story, Two Angles from the WSJ and NYT

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal don't agree on what happened yesterday with a new rule governing private-equity... More

A Post Deficit Story Ignores the Obvious

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2009 at 08:33 PM

There's a word missing from the Washington Post's lead story this morning on the budget deficit: "Bush." Its absence goes... More

NYT’s Floyd Norris Audits The Audit

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2009 at 01:02 PM

New York Times columnist Floyd Norris takes issue with my post Friday which noted that his column Friday said the... More

Criticizing Obama’s Bernanke Nomination

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2009 at 09:45 AM

The Battle of Bernanke has begun. Yesterday, the Journal broke the news that Obama would renominate Bernanke to run the... More

LAT’s Lazarus Alone Questions BofA Arbitration Move

The rest of the press missed a big piece of the story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2009 at 03:22 PM

The best personal-finance journalism isn't the kind where pundit X tells you why you shouldn't buy product Y or continuously... More

Bloomberg Wins Its Lawsuit Against the Federal Reserve

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Score one for Bloomberg in its lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to disclose who it's bailing out with... More

WSJ Keeps Goldman in the Spotlight

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 24, 2009 at 02:30 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a great scoop on A1 today reporting on a heretofore-unknown practice at Goldman Sachs called... More

WSJ v. NYT: Securitization Smackdown

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM

If you picked up both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times this morning, your head may be... More

The Chasm Between the Value of Print and Web Readers

A person buying the paper brings twenty times the revenue of an online reader

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 21, 2009 at 07:45 AM

After posting the unhappy news that newspaper ads are at 1965 levels, I thought it might be interesting to take... More

WSJ Weighs in on the Seattle Mayoral Race

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 20, 2009 at 10:08 AM

For the second time in three days, The Wall Street Journal gives prominent play to the Seattle mayoral primary*. To... More

Newspaper Industry Ad Revenue at 1965 Levels

Inflation-adjusted numbers show papers are even worse off than you think

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2009 at 04:40 PM

Martin Peers had a smart Heard on the Street in yesterday's Wall Street Journal on the critical question of how... More

The Post’s Misleading Deflation Number

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM

I hate it when I see numbers reported without necessary context. A Washington Post story today on the economy reports... More

WaPo Delivers a Much-Needed “Wait a Second”

The economy faces a long, hard path to any real recovery

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 18, 2009 at 02:13 PM

With all the positive talk about the economy in the press over the last couple of months, you'd think happy... More

WSJ Back to the Backdating Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 18, 2009 at 09:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal, which broke the massive options-backdating scandal three years ago in one of the great enterprise stories... More