60 Minutes Revisits Lehman, Valukas, and Repo 105

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 24, 2012 at 07:19 PM

Remember the Valukas Report? That court-appointed bankruptcy examiner'sinvestigation into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found a number of colorable claims... More

60 Minutes With a Good Look at the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 07:45 PM

Hats off to 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley for taking a nice look at the foreclosure scandal on Sunday. Pelley... More

60 Minutes’ Tough Piece on Crisis Prosecutions

Kroft on the lack thereof

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 6, 2011 at 07:31 PM

A tip of the cap to 60 Minutes for an excellent report Sunday asking about the lack of criminal prosecutions... More

A Biovail/60 Minutes Coda

By Dean Starkman   Nov 10, 2010 at 06:13 PM

Some stories just never go away. 60 Minutes's poor decision four years ago to portray a small pharmaceuticals company... More

Audit Notes: The Swipe-Fee Battle, Homeless Kids, Angelides on Fire

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2011 at 06:03 PM

Bloomberg News has an excellent recount of how the debit-card swipe-fee battle was waged. Its headline is just about perfect:... More

Bloomberg News Pops the Meredith Whitney Bubble

The analyst can’t back up key 60 Minutes assertions that worsened a muni-bond panic

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 1, 2011 at 01:50 PM

Bloomberg News lands some real blows on analyst Meredith Whitney in a terrific story this morning. Whitney, famously—or infamously—went on... More

Pinning Down the President

Challenging Obama for overpromising on health care

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 15, 2011 at 05:48 PM

In an interview with President Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night, it was apparent Steve Kroft was taking his questioning... More

Story on Tiny Country A Giant Failure

60 Minutes whiffs on recent story about Qatar

By Justin D. Martin   Feb 15, 2012 at 01:05 PM

A recent 60 Minutes segment on the nation of Qatar was the most imprecise piece of journalism I can remember... More