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By Ryan Chittum Oct 1, 2009 at 11:56 AM

A Friend of The Audit passed us an email he got from The New York Times offering a package deal... More

Weil: Bank Balance Sheets Still an Unknown

By Ryan Chittum Oct 1, 2009 at 09:58 AM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil raises some good questions about what we really know about the banking industry's health this morning, looking... More

Gasparino’s Gossip Column

By Ryan Chittum Sep 30, 2009 at 02:41 PM

Charlie Gasparino really wants you to know that Wall Street executives are "nervous" and "feel betrayed" by Barack Obama. Is... More

CQ Stomps Out Newsroom Dissent

Setting a bad example by firing a veteran editor for impertinence

By Ryan Chittum Sep 30, 2009 at 08:04 AM

When the human-resources folks come for you, and in journalism these days that's not infrequent, you have to hope somebody... More

The Journal Edges to the Right

By Ryan Chittum Sep 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM

Charles Kaiser had a good piece this weekend questioning whether Rupert Murdoch's ideology has been seeping into the news pages... More

WaPo: How the Fed Failed to Protect Consumers

By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2009 at 03:18 PM

The Washington Post ran an excellent story yesterday looking at the Federal Reserve's utter failure to protect consumers—indeed to even... More

Now Bloomberg Calls it an Obama Bull Market

By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM

I nicked Bloomberg for a story in March calling the stock-market swoon an "Obama Bear Market." Now it's saying there's... More

Morgenson on a Mortgage Front

By Ryan Chittum Sep 28, 2009 at 09:51 AM

Gretchen Morgenson, unlike the rest of the press, pays attention to a Kansas court ruling last week that has potentially... More

Craigslist vs. the Aggregators

By Ryan Chittum Sep 21, 2009 at 03:44 PM

Wired's cover story this month is a terrific look at craigslist and why it's awesome and not very good, all... More

WSJ: Hey, Readers—Your Jobs Aren’t That Important

By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2009 at 03:45 PM

I really like this page-one Wall Street Journal story today looking at the financialization of the economy over the past... More

Pearlstein: Fundamental Reform for Credit Ratings

By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Steven Pearlstein does well to keep the credit-ratings firms in the spotlight, a place it seems they've been all too... More

Missing the Point on the Anglicization of the WSJ

“Come a cropper” is the least of the paper’s problems

By Ryan Chittum Sep 17, 2009 at 05:17 PM

It's good to see somebody else notice the Anglicization of the The Wall Street Journal. It's not good that that... More

“Learned, Baroque, and Quite Frequently Terrifying”

The New Republic profiles the Financial Times’s Martin Wolf

By Ryan Chittum Sep 17, 2009 at 01:39 PM

We're big fans of the Financial Times's Martin Wolf here at The Audit. His Wednesday columns and occasional takeouts are... More

A WSJ Deal Column After The Audit’s Own Heart

By Ryan Chittum Sep 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM

It's not often you see something like this in the financial press. David Weidner writes on The Wall Street Journal... More

Mint Makes a Mint

But press coverage of the $170 million deal leaves a bad taste

By Ryan Chittum Sep 16, 2009 at 04:11 PM

The press, institutionally, has an all-too-short memory. But have we already forgotten some of the lessons of the tech bubble,... More

Trade, “Buy American,” and the Journal

By Ryan Chittum Sep 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Trade reporting has picked up in the last couple of days after the Obama administration slapped a fat tariff on... More

WSJ Will Charge for Mobile Access

By Ryan Chittum Sep 15, 2009 at 04:49 PM

Rupert Murdoch is putting his money—or more accurately, "your money"—where his mouth is, announcing that his Wall Street Journal will... More

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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”

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Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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