A Little Healthy Outrage on Executive Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2011 at 02:16 PM

Roger Lowenstein had an excellent Bloomberg column a couple of weeks ago on outlandish executive compensation. Unfortunately, it got one... More

An Excellent WSJ Probe Finds Corporate Jet Abuse

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 01:34 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a terrific investigation into executive abuse of corporate jets and shows that companies are violating... More

Audit Notes: $25,000 an Hour, Foreclosures, Corporate Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2012 at 08:03 PM

The New York Times has done a lot of tough reporting over the years on outlandish executive compensation. It's time... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Goes Wallison, Friedman, Golden Parachutes

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM

Mayor Bloomberg is supposed to be the technocratic mayor of New York City—the anti-wingnut. So what's he doing saying things... More

Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2012 at 06:14 PM

The Browser has a great interview with Francis Fukayama on his five favorite financial-crisis books. Here he is on whether... More

Audit Notes: Magnetar Misled, Anonymous But On the Record, WSJ Jet Probe

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 23, 2011 at 07:49 PM

I wrote about JPMorgan's Magnetar settlement this morning, but it's important to note that it shows once and for all... 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

Audit Notes: Rattner Gets a Pass, NYT’s Golden Parachute, No Rhodes Scholar

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 06:50 PM

New York Times reporter Geraldine Fabrikant writes a column for Reuters, oddly, on the pass former New York Times reporter,... More

Audit Notes: Sunday Papers, Weymouth’s Payday, Ayn Rand

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 08:15 PM

Ken Doctor has some interesting thoughts at the Nieman Journalism Lab on why The New York Times's paywall pricing steers... More

Audit Notes: The Fed and Labor, Revolving Door Watch, Bank Dividends

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2011 at 08:24 PM

Mike Konczal, aka Rortybomb, has a very interesting post asking questions about the impact of Federal Reserve policies have had... More

Bloomberg on Cherry-Picking Executive “Peers” to Inflate Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2012 at 02:08 PM

Bloomberg News has a good piece on how companies inflate CEO pay by comparing them to "peers" that are out... More

Cronyism and Executive Compensation

A Washington Post examination of how “peers” inflate CEO pay

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 4, 2011 at 02:07 PM

Companies tend to try to pay their employees as little as possible without killing morale and suffering high turnover. But... More

DealBook Leaves Out the Links in Its Goldman Story

By Felix Salmon   Jan 19, 2011 at 05:31 PM

DealBook and Footnoted—the very epitome of professional financial blogs—have collaborated in a big investigation of Goldman Sachs's regulatory filings and... More

Dirty Business (As Usual) at News Corporation

A golden parachute for Rebekah Brooks and surveillance of hacking victims’ lawyers

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 7, 2011 at 01:16 PM

You know a company has serious problems when it's unsurprising that it gives an executive a golden parachute after her... More

Executive Compensation As the Driver of Inequality

A well reported Washington Post story makes a solid case

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 05:51 PM

The Washington Post leads off its new series on inequality with a killer anecdote: It was the 1970s, and the... More

Gannett’s Multimillionaires Regret to Inform 700 Workers of Their Layoffs

Imagine if these six execs scrapped the “multi” and took low seven figures

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2011 at 01:42 AM

Gannett says "we need to take further steps to align our costs with the current revenue trends," so it's laying... More

Mad Libs, New York Times Executive Pay Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2012 at 06:45 PM

The New York Times likes to inveigh against executive compensation practices on its editorial pages, and its newsroom has done... More

Newspaper Companies As Emblems of the 1 Percent

David Carr rips Gannett’s $37 million golden parachute

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 04:32 PM

"Gannett paper" has long been a pejorative in journalism circles. So how about "Gannett executive"? The nation's biggest newspaper chain... More