NYT Gives a (Very Reluctant) Kudos to Al Jazeera

By Ron Howell   Apr 13, 2012 at 08:42 AM

And the award for coverage of the Haitian cholera epidemic goes to . . . No, not The New York... More

A Broken Lede

The government isn’t “broke.” Reporters should stop saying it is.

By Greg Marx   Jun 13, 2011 at 03:46 PM

The Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site,... More

A Frustrating AP Series on Nuclear Safety

The industry’s blunder-buss response doesn’t help; public left confused

By Irene M. Wielawski   Sep 28, 2011 at 01:40 AM

Editor's note: This is an installment of our Audit Arbiter series, which looks into complaints about business news stories.... More

A Laurel to the AP

For its eye-opening story on Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM

The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More

Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”

But there’s more to the story than we get from the AP and The Dallas Morning News

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 11, 2011 at 02:07 PM

The Associated Press reports that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's... More

AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal

Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan

By Joel Meares   Apr 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM

A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents... More

AP Gives Half a Loaf on Long-Term Care

More reporting needed from the wire service

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 25, 2011 at 01:18 PM

When the CLASS Act, a part of the health reform law that would have begun to establish a national program... More

AP Staffers Picket Bureaus Across The Country (UPDATED)

Frustrations on the rise over pension impasse

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 08:09 AM

AP staffers in thirty-nine bureaus across the country picketed outside their bureau offices early this week, pressuring the news wire... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Calls Out AT&T; Goldman and Qaddafi; Banks Hit the Road

By Ryan Chittum   May 31, 2011 at 11:45 PM

I wish more papers would do what The Wall Street Journal does today in its story about antitrust concerns over... More

Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM

This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More

Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act

The two faces of health reform

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 22, 2012 at 04:16 PM

The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act... More

Detecting Fake Photos with Digital Forensics

A Q&A with Hany Farid on photo forensics

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM

As photography has gone digital, it has become ever easier to manipulate images with Photoshop and other technology. Digital photographs... More

Don’t Forget Massey Energy’s Long History of Violations

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2011 at 08:54 PM

Federal investigators' preliminary report is out on the April coal mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. Was it... More

Governor’s Inbox Puts Deputy Prosecutor Out (Updated)

Walker’s e-mails give Wisconsin watchdog a story

By Joel Meares   Mar 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM

A young Indiana deputy prosecutor has resigned after an interesting journalistic project sprung from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s release of... More

Nice Work at the AP

The administration stretches a health reform stat

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM

It’s no secret the president and his surrogates are trying mightily to keep their sales job for health reform on... More

On Haiti

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 11, 2011 at 04:19 PM

It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the... More

One Night at the AP

Conflicting e-mails from capitol editor offer window into a newsroom conflict

By Clint Hendler   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:13 AM

It was one of the weirdest weeks Albany has ever experienced—and for New York’s scandal ridden, incestuous capital, that’s saying... More

Ron Suskind on Obama’s Weakness

A new book reports Geithner ignored the president on overhauling Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 12:53 AM

It's been apparent for a good while that Obama is a weak president. But so weak that his own people... More