A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press

HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 07:43 PM

Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry... More

Audit Notes: HuffPo Shines, Libor Lineup, An FT Slip

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM

I don't know about you, but the best news story I read today on the Levin-Coburn Report wasn't in the... More

Audit Notes: One Termer, HAMP Dwindles, The Crisis Narrative Shift

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 15, 2011 at 08:15 PM

These two graphs from an NYT story this weekend pretty much show why Barack Obama is going to be a... More

Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2011 at 06:20 PM

When The Huffington Post's Lila Pearl Shapiro wrote a critical story about Walmart's labor practices earlier this week, the company... More

Bloomberg Scrutinizes JPMorgan Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 06:58 PM

Bloomberg News has an important story today showing how press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase has ramped up risk in... More

Critical Juncture for HuffPo Science

With new section, David Freeman has an opportunity to raise the bar

By Curtis Brainard   Jan 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM

The Huffington Post’s announcement last week that it had launched a new section intended to be a “one-stop shop for... More

Follow a 99er Through the Press As the Money Runs Out

The long jobs crisis, with no end in sight, should prompt us to revisit older stories

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 1, 2011 at 01:32 PM

Now that it's certain that our leaders have gone all in on austerity, despite a 9.2 percent unemployment rate and... More

HuffPost Finds the Pain in Goldman’s For-Profit Education Firm

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2011 at 06:46 PM

It's not hard to imagine that letting boiler rooms push poor folks into taking out impossible-to-shed federal loans is a... More

HuffPost: An SEC Wrist Slap for Fleecing an Indian Tribe (UPDATED)

Wachovia dinged with a small settlement, and no individuals are charged

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 05:15 PM

Good for The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour for giving us a closer look at Wachovia's settlement for defrauding an Indian... More

Six degrees of aggregation

How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

By Michael Shapiro   Apr 16, 2012 at 05:15 PM

Of the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three... More

Skimpy Coverage of Levin-Coburn Report From WSJ, NYT

McClatchy, The Huffington Post, and Bloomberg are much better

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 01:33 PM

If you're looking for second-day coverage of the Levin-Coburn report in The Wall Street Journal or New York Times—as I... More

The Big, and Little, Mortgage-Fraud News

By Felix Salmon   May 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Shahien Nasiripour had a very important scoop yesterday—a set of confidential federal audits has found a pattern of mortgage fraud... More

The Levin-Coburn Report Coverage

The WSJ and NYT whiff on possible Goldman Sachs criminal referrals

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2011 at 05:50 PM

There's all kinds of stuff to chew on in the new Levin-Coburn report, which looks like the toughest such report... More

U.S. Oil Is Limited and Fungible, the HuffPost Reports

By Ryan Chittum   May 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM

The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff has a good piece of reporting on the potential impact of a bill the House... More