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WSJ Helps Keep It Real on Inflation
By Dean Starkman Feb 18, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart do well to pinpoint exactly what we need to worry about in the inflation... More
WSJ Notes That Commodities Go Down, Too
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM
The business press is much more sensitive to signs of price increases than it is to signs of price decreases.... More
Audit Notes: A Foreclosure Tragedy, Dirty Diapers, 1994, Hyatt’s Jingle Mail
By Ryan Chittum Nov 5, 2010 at 04:57 PM
The Miami Herald finds a sad twist on the foreclosure scandal: Who do you sue when your toddler drowns in... More
Audit Notes: California’s Enron echoes, Sox toolbox, the Dow’s decade
LAT on allegations that JPMorgan manipulated markets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
— Michael Hiltzik had a good column two weeks ago on allegations that JPMorgan Chase manipulated California energy markets: The... More
Audit Notes: CEO Porn; Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan; Sbarro, Cooked
By Ryan Chittum May 5, 2011 at 09:08 PM
Gary Weiss says the tarnishing of Warren Buffett is a useful moment for the press to stand back and quit... More
Audit Notes: Citi’s Slaps, College Is Cheap, Voicemail Interception Compensation Scheme
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2011 at 07:38 PM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil has an excellent, tough column on the latest settlement between Citigroup and the SEC, which shows how... More
Audit Notes: Hollywood Rolls, Ryan’s Loopholes, Regulation and Racing
By Ryan Chittum Mar 27, 2012 at 01:40 AM
Looking at this Wall Street Journal graphic, you'd think Hollywood has been on some kind of epic roll the last... More
Audit Notes: mixed signals, Sam Zell’s phony equity, power shift
The Seattle Times flubs an inflation report
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Deflation has set in in the Seattle area, according to a misleading Seattle Times story: This is awfully confusing. The... More
Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay
The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along
By Ryan Chittum Sep 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Times-Picayune plans to move into Baton Rouge to hit back at the Advocate's move into New Orleans. But publisher... More
Audit Notes: NFL Hell, No Inflation Here, Fraud Without Fraudsters
By Ryan Chittum Feb 10, 2011 at 08:56 PM
Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has the column of the week, a righteous piece of outrage at the NFL... More
Audit Notes: Payment Protection, Greek Austerity, Inflation Bugaboo
By Ryan Chittum Feb 8, 2012 at 01:49 AM
American Banker's Victoria Finkle and Jeff Horwitz report on the credit card industry's payment-protection racket and note that the Consumer... More
Audit Notes: Perk Up, Core Inflation, What Passes for News
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2011 at 07:49 PM
USA Today takes a long look at CEO perks, but it doesn't do a good job of prioritizing the really... More
Becky Quick Thinks the Fed Is Too Focused on Jobs
That makes no sense historically or in the current context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM
CNBC's Becky Quick uses her Fortune column to argue that the Federal Reserve should break the law. The law says... More
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)
Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM
The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes... More
Reporting Commodity Price Swings
Stories often lead readers to believe inflationary impact is greater than it really is
By Ryan Chittum Nov 16, 2010 at 05:03 PM
Bloomberg shouts this headline today about commodity prices going up: Gap, Wal-Mart Clothing Costs Rise on ‘Terrifying’ Cotton Prices Its... More
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation
When prices matter and when they don’t
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This SmartMoney post on "Why You're Not Getting a Raise" doesn't make sense. The lede: Didn’t get a raise this... More
Smartphone money
The Journal on how phones are weighing more on family budgets
By Ryan Chittum Sep 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal is good to take a look at how smartphone bills are eating up a chunk of... More
The inflation bugaboo, back again for QE3
Scare stories on an expected uptick in price expectations
By Ryan Chittum Sep 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
If you've followed the financial press or have seen Ron Paul talk in the last few years, you've heard all... More
The Turkey-Inflation Goblin
Supply and demand is lost on the WSJ editorial page
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2011 at 02:08 PM
Speaking of The Wall Street Journal editorial page, its Opinion Journal Live is looking for signs of runaway inflation to... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
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