Latest Stories

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Problems in an NYT Column The paper quoted anonymous sources on a Lehman whistleblower but offered no chance for a response

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Mar 18 2010 10:15 AM Comments (1)

• Feature

  The Education of Herb And Marion Sandler When two patrons of aggressive journalism became its targets, they cried foul. They have a point.

  By Jeff Horwitz

  Thu Mar 18 2010 08:00 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes (All-Lehman Edition): Round-Trip, Clueless, Felix on Fire

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Mar 17 2010 06:55 PM

• The Audit

  Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer’s Tactics

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Mar 17 2010 05:28 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: The Post on Chamber Politics, Roll Call on K St. Pay, Hoop Dreams

  By Holly Yeager

  Wed Mar 17 2010 04:07 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Parsing the AP’s Health Care Primer Its attempt at informing falls short

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Mar 17 2010 03:31 PM

• Behind the News, Video

  Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers A clip from the recent CJR panel discussion

  By The Editors

  Wed Mar 17 2010 01:41 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  CBS Throws Debt Numbers Against Wall

  By Holly Yeager

  Wed Mar 17 2010 12:23 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ on a New Municipal “Move Your Money” Push

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Mar 17 2010 10:41 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Battle of NYC, Fed, Complexity, Big Mac Subsidies

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Mar 16 2010 08:38 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: The FT Looks at the Lobbyist Set; WSJ on Credit Agencies, NPR on the Dow, Etc.

  By Holly Yeager

  Tue Mar 16 2010 04:02 PM

• Campaign Desk

  He-Said, She-Said on Medicare The Times gets stuck on the surface of the Medicare debate

  By Greg Marx

  Tue Mar 16 2010 02:47 PM Comments (1)

• News Meeting, The Observatory

  When the Well Runs Dry Is Duke Energy’s support for a new SciTech section a problem?

  By The Editors

  Tue Mar 16 2010 02:16 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Reporting from the Examining Room

  By Holly Yeager

  Tue Mar 16 2010 12:55 PM

• Campaign Desk

  The President Pushes against Waste, Fraud, and Abuse But what do those terms really mean?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Tue Mar 16 2010 12:10 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Why So Serious? Parsing the Post’s piece on Obama’s “happiness deficit”

  By Greg Marx

  Tue Mar 16 2010 11:28 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Leeway for Lehman Brothers Clusterstock’s Carney trips all over himself arguing against prosecutions

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Mar 16 2010 10:33 AM Comments (4)

• Feature

  An Icon Fades Ebony shaped the black middle class, then misread its digital moment

  By Don Terry

  Tue Mar 16 2010 08:00 AM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Strong Leder, Online Ads, CNBC Deathmatch

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Mar 15 2010 07:38 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Mar 15 2010 04:20 PM Comments (12)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: NYT Does Well at (Trade) School; WaPo on Earmarks, Squeezed in Ypsilanti, Etc.

  By Holly Yeager

  Mon Mar 15 2010 04:01 PM

• Behind the News, Regret the Error, The News Frontier

  Bad News Howard Rheingold sees a critical need for critical thinking

  By Craig Silverman

  Mon Mar 15 2010 01:14 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  China Stories: Good, Bad, Indifferent

  By Holly Yeager

  Mon Mar 15 2010 12:57 PM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  Your Deal Confusing a ‘card shark’ with a ‘cardsharp’

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Mar 15 2010 11:12 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Is the Past Prologue? The pedigree of Alan Simpson

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Mar 15 2010 10:51 AM

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  State of the Media, By the Numbers Seven notable stats from the Pew State of the Media report

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  Mon Mar 15 2010 08:35 AM Comments (4)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Michael Lewis Drops Some Wisdom on Wall Street

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Mar 15 2010 04:44 AM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Comments of the Week March 8-12, 2010

  By The Editors

  Fri Mar 12 2010 07:59 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Google “Grandeur,” Toxic Pet, Stop the Presses?

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Mar 12 2010 05:28 PM

• Campaign Desk

  How to Cover a Non-Story The Globe knew about that Scott Brown lawsuit—and passed

  By Greg Marx

  Fri Mar 12 2010 02:55 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Lehman Scandal Breaks Wide Open

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Mar 12 2010 01:38 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  Le Nouvelliste Returns Haiti’s oldest newspaper comes back to life

  By Betwa Sharma and Mohammad Al-Kassim

  Fri Mar 12 2010 11:35 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Investigative Budgets, Cable BS, The Audit Outsourced

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Mar 11 2010 09:33 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Really Real S&P 500

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Mar 11 2010 05:54 PM Comments (3)

• The Observatory

  Reviving Science Coverage in the Carolinas Weekly newspaper section, community-journalism project deliver fresh content

  By Thomas K. Zellers

  Thu Mar 11 2010 04:44 PM Comments (5)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Zonied Out Adam Klawonn tried everything to make his journalism startup succeed. It wasn’t enough.

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  Thu Mar 11 2010 04:17 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Medicare Kicks Out Fox Insurance And therein lie some lessons for the press

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Thu Mar 11 2010 02:53 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Gensler, Derivatives, and the Causes of the Crisis A Times story brings up several critical points for coverage of Wall Street and reform

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Mar 11 2010 12:17 PM Comments (1)

• Review

  The Price of Admission Andrew Ross Sorkin’s debut and the limits of access journalism

  By Dean Starkman

  Thu Mar 11 2010 06:00 AM Comments (9)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: FT “News,” Overdrafts Over at BofA, No Marketwatchdog

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Mar 10 2010 10:31 PM

• Campaign Desk

  When a Story Comes Along, Must You Whip It? Competing approaches to covering the legislative endgame

  By Greg Marx

  Wed Mar 10 2010 04:14 PM

• Campaign Desk

  What Was Sebelius Saying? David Gregory didn’t probe too deeply

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Mar 10 2010 04:01 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: WSJ Good on Wall Street Muni Fees; Newsweek on Design, Bloomberg Goes Contrarian on Obama, Etc.

  By Holly Yeager

  Wed Mar 10 2010 03:54 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Cranston Attorney Now a Journal Star

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Mar 10 2010 03:30 PM

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  “Rejuvenating American Journalism” What the FTC will hear today from Robert McChesney

  By The Editors

  Wed Mar 10 2010 12:58 PM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Times Peeks Inside CFPA Dealmaking

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Mar 10 2010 10:46 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Sorkin GOP, Multi-Task Meacham, Salmon, Simon

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Mar 9 2010 08:53 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Big Money, No Funny

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Mar 9 2010 07:55 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Credit Cards, Credit Scores, and Citigroup

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Mar 9 2010 05:13 PM Comments (4)

• News Meeting

  Rahm, Off the Record How much should you talk to someone off-record if they refuse to go on?

  By The Editors

  Tue Mar 9 2010 04:08 PM Comments (8)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  A Weak Excuse for an Unemployment Story

  By Holly Yeager

  Tue Mar 9 2010 02:44 PM Comments (2)

• The Observatory

  Monitor-ing the Environment The CSM cancels green blog in favor of a broader approach

  By Curtis Brainard

  Tue Mar 9 2010 10:42 AM Comments (4)

• Cover Story

  Dumb Like a Fox Fox News isn’t part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable

  By Terry McDermott

  Tue Mar 9 2010 06:00 AM Comments (96)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Lowenstein’s Consumer Protection Stinker Faulty logic and a false choice on banks

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Mar 9 2010 04:31 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Glades Crusade, Greenspan Deflects, Whatever Happened to…?

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Mar 8 2010 09:18 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Bloomberg Shows Banks Teetering with Market Prices

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Mar 8 2010 03:05 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Strategic Error Times Axelrod profile gets mixed up on messaging

  By Greg Marx

  Mon Mar 8 2010 01:46 PM

• Language Corner

  No Lectures, Please ‘Podium’ and ‘lectern’ are often interchangeable

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Mar 8 2010 01:10 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, Video

  Delacorte Lecture with Adam Pitluk Watch the American Way editor’s Delacorte Lecture here

  By The Editors

  Mon Mar 8 2010 11:19 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Regulating Health Care, Part III When is an insurance company too small to cover?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Mar 8 2010 11:12 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Before Preemption There Was Riegle-Neal

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Mar 8 2010 09:51 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Comments of the Week March 1-5, 2010

  By The Editors

  Sun Mar 7 2010 05:39 PM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: God of Journalism, Pandit Panned, Wolff’s Own Medicine

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Mar 5 2010 06:24 PM

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: Medicaid, Rest Stops, Galbraith, Etc.

  By Dean Starkman

  Fri Mar 5 2010 04:58 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Carrying Water for White-Collar Criminals William D. Cohan pleads for a Goldman convict to be pardoned

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Mar 5 2010 03:45 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Support for WSJ’s Jobs Optimism is Thin

  By Holly Yeager

  Fri Mar 5 2010 12:12 PM