NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”

There’s no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times’s model

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM

If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country... More

WaPo and Times Go Softly, Softly with Barbour

Similar profiles tell similar tales

By Joel Meares   Mar 22, 2011 at 02:59 PM

Pity poor Tim Pawlenty. The day after the former Minnesota governor made a shallow splash announcing his presidential exploratory... More

WaPo Pulls Up Short On Trade and Tariffs

By Ryan Chittum   May 24, 2011 at 02:12 PM

The Washington Post looks at what happens when the U.S. actually fights low-priced Chinese imports with tariffs: The factories move... More

WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM

The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More

WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM

You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More

WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece

Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM

By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More

WaPo: OCC Had the Banks’ Back on Foreclosures

Comptroller John Dugan rejected requests from states to investigate

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2010 at 09:58 AM

This Washington Post story yesterday didn't get as much attention as it ought to have. Zachary Goldfarb reports on yet... More

A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post

An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2010 at 03:32 PM

The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing... More

A Dim-Bulb Story From the Washington Post

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2012 at 07:58 PM

New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's office this afternoon sent out a press release hammering the Washington Post's page-one story on... More

A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context

Reports from recent campaign finance reports

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM

There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the... More

A Suspicious Palin Moratorium

By Joel Meares   Jan 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM

So… Dana Milbank at The Washington Post is calling for February to be a Sarah Palin-free month. Not in the... More

All But Ignoring the Fed’s Call for More Stimulus

Deficit-obsessed newspapers stuff Bernanke’s plea for near-term spending or tax cuts

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM

Last week, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, Republican, Bush appointee, calm technocrat, called for more fiscal stimulus (government spending and/or... More

AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger

Politico and the Washington Post follow the money

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM

It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More

Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM

This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More

Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM

Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More