The Times Gets It Right (Today) on Credit Cards

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2009 at 01:32 PM

Gary Weiss notices that the Times shifts course on credit cards on page one today. It's a good thing they... More

Obama Listens to Elizabeth Warren Even if the Press Does Not

WaPo scoops that a consumer regulator is in the works

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2009 at 09:50 AM

The Washington Post gets a nice scoop this morning on an actual good idea emanating from Washington: Setting up a... More

The Times Gives Card Companies Too Much Credit

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2009 at 01:55 PM

The Times's front page story on the coming credit-card crackdown doesn't really do it for me. The consumer-advocate response is... More

BlackRock Gets a Bruising from WSJ, NYT

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2009 at 09:46 AM

BlackRock gets a double scoop of (deservedly) bad press this morning on page one of The New York Times and... More

Hints of an Explosive Wall Street Story from FT’s Tett

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM

There's an interesting bit of reporting buried deep in this good Gillian Tett column in the Financial Times last week... More

No Jump for Nomura in the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 07:55 PM

This Journal story on Nomura Holdings upping its U.S. presence is a bit off. First of all there's the headline:... More

Fortune: The TALF Plan Has Wall Street Salivating

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 02:30 PM

The TALF bailout is coming online, and Fortune takes a good look at exactly how it works for the big... More

Deposed Trump Looks Very Bad in the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 09:46 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a hilarious story today using Donald Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times editor Timothy... More

Globe Pension-Insurer Story Gets Juicy

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2009 at 04:53 PM

Remember that pension insurance fund story I said to watch a couple of months ago—the one broken by The Boston... More

WaPo Sees an Incipient Trade War with Canada

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM

The Washington Post reports that the trade-war issue, which flared up briefly after "Buy American" clauses made it into the... More

WSJ’s Weak Hedge-Fund Story

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2009 at 09:56 AM

This Journal story today is frustrating. Investors in a fund run by hedge-fund impresario James Simons are ticked off that... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Keeps the Goldman Settlement Story Alive

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2009 at 05:13 PM

The press mostly stuffed the big news the other day that Goldman Sachs agreed to a $60 million settlement with... More

So That’s Why the Press Won’t Cover Elizabeth Warren!

NPR badgers oversight panel chair over her legitimacy

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2009 at 03:03 PM

A couple of times in the last few months I've taken the press to task for ignoring the Congressional Oversight... More

WSJ “Hears” Another False Note from Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2009 at 09:40 AM

The Journal has a solid "Heard on the Street" this morning about how all the TARP carping by banks doesn't... More

Kindle Is Just Another Way for Papers to Lose Money

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2009 at 06:47 PM

I wrote the other day about why the Kindle—at least in its current incarnation—isn't going to save the newspaper industry.... More

But Will the Bankers Go Galt?

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM

The Journal scoops that Obama is formulating a broad plan to regulate pay in the financial industry to make sure... More

WSJ: Conflicts at Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2009 at 09:37 AM

The Journal's piece on conflicts of interest at Goldman Sachs's commercial real estate funds is a good look at yet... More

The Times Overdraws on Community Banks

By Ryan Chittum   May 12, 2009 at 03:55 PM

I wanted to like this New York Times story today on small banks and how they've far outperformed their bigger... More

Goldman Settles Mortgage Probe, But the Press Buries It

By Ryan Chittum   May 12, 2009 at 09:47 AM

Seems to me that the press is underplaying the news that Goldman Sachs agreed to a $60 million settlement with... More

Kicking the Tires at The New York Times Company

By Ryan Chittum   May 11, 2009 at 04:45 PM

Fortune has some fascinating reporting on the future of The New York Times as a business. It scoops that David... More