The Audit Archive
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The private-equity problem with Romney and GS Technologies Loading up a company with debt to ensure Bain's own profits
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Sorkin’s Glass-Steagall straw man Of course its repeal contributed, directly and indirectly, to the financial crisis
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Buffett on newspapers, Times-Picayune, SEC lets Lehman go A vow to invest in newspapers and protect them from interference
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: No more daily in New Orleans, McClatchy, private equity The NYT reports the Times-Picayune will print two or three times a week
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
Facebook fiasco The well connected made out while retail investors got hosed
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
How Gawker wants to monetize comments Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product moves away from posts
By Felix Salmon
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Facebook disclosure, Facebook value, soft corruption
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
A game of telephone fools the Times And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Questions for JPMorgan, hindsight journalism, Ticketmaster Jesse Eisinger asks what and when Dimon & Co. knew about the bank's big loss
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The Facebook frenzy Retail investors prepare to jump on a richly valued IPO
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
What’s the right price for ebooks? (updated) It's probably not 99 cents
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes
By Ryan Chittum
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers Political ads may not be all "gravy" for local stations—but they're still an awfully good deal
By Erika Fry
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The business press embarrasses Jamie Dimon London Whale, sighted one month ago, knocks billions off JPMorgan's worth
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Chesapeake woes, the Untaxable, Reuters on HSBC
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: WSJ dings austerity, Weisenthal, The Global Mail
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps New York cover story dispenses with named sources
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Clearly, Quartz wants to help elites go optimize themselves The Atlantic’s new business site enters a crowded field catering to the 0.1 percent
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Influence, Reuters’s Chesapeake drumbeat A sweeping indictment of the corruption of British politics by News Corp.
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: News Corp.’s board, Lehman’s hubris, Awards and Slideshows David Carr eyes Rupert Murdoch's crony-filled board of directors
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The housing market at an inflection point The Journal explains why bidding wars are starting to bubble up again
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Still pro-euro, foreclosures, privatized parking meters An FT contributor says the UK doesn't want to miss out on that Europe thing
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
Facebook’s low, low ad rates The Journal reports on the site's problems with advertisers
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The most important journalist in business news Fox Business stakes a gilded claim for Neil Cavuto
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Dollar dictator, the SEC’s small fry, Americans go Swiss The Federal Reserve doesn't answer solely to Ben Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum
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Feature, The Audit
The reporter who saw it coming Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes: Murdoch and the Conservatives, M&A, ESPN fail Tantalizing but thinly sourced info on Rebekah Brooks's texts to David Cameron
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Reuters uncovers Chesapeake CEO’s other day job Second probe in two weeks deals gas tycoon Aubrey McClendon another big headache
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit notes Murdoch Mauled by MPs Edition
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The coverup culture of News Corp. A damning report from Parliament and Rupert Murdoch's revealing response to it
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Lobbyists, Reuters on Chesapeake, Shadow Space (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The WSJ’s Monster Market Move The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle hits the merger beat with Coca-Cola deal-talks story
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The AP on Student Loan Hell A 2005 law traps borrowers in private debt
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Davies on Murdoch, Banks Eye the Poor for Fees, TARP ROI
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg on Cherry-Picking Executive “Peers” to Inflate Pay
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: The ER Boiler Room, Jeremy Hunt, UK Austerity Fails
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Journal Misses on Ebooks and Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Murdoch Minister Edition
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
60 Minutes Revisits Lehman, Valukas, and Repo 105
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Blame the Lenders, Government Scandals, Corrections
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: The Pentagon’s Privatized Propaganda, Chesapeake, Inequality
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The NYT Goes Backward on Digital Ads
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Luskin and Krugman, Bailouts, Minimum Wage,
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Excellent Reuters Probe Uncovers a CEO’s Billion-Dollar Loans
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
Audit TV: Dean Starkman at the Narrative Arc Conference
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The New York Times Company in 2015 Trendlines--as of right now--don't point to its demise
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
What the Loebs Can Learn From the Pulitzers
By Felix Salmon
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The Value of Prizes
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg Scrutinizes JPMorgan Chase
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Minimum Wage in Context
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
Ebooks and Antitrust The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Dodger Money, Social News Apps, U.S. Mowing Bills
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Seattle Times Takes On Hometown Amazon A tough series on the dark side of the booming local company
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Wells Bells, Nontaxpayers, Facebook Apps and Privacy
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Paul Ryan’s Very Serious Budget, The London Whale
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
The Ethics of Social News Apps
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Sky News Hacking, JPMorgan Fined, False Balance
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
NYT Examines Chris Christie’s Corporate Welfare Machine
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Shareholder Revolution Edition
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
All You Can Eat Magazines Ken Doctor reports on a promising venture from five major publishers
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: NBC’s Selective Edits, Bloomberg Clickbait, Secrecy
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
What Do I Owe You? Don't ask Bank of America
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit, The News Frontier
What McClure Said: “The Story is the Thing” Clearing space for the agenda-setting narrative in digital journalism
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Goldman’s CDOs, Too Big to Fail Consensus, Need to Know
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Cuts the Guruspeak
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan
By Ryan Chittum
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market
By Ryan Chittum
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- The private-equity problem with Romney and GS Technologies Loading up a company with debt to ensure Bain’s own profits
- Sorkin’s Glass-Steagall straw man Of course its repeal contributed, directly and indirectly, to the financial crisis
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- Evolved for exhibitionism? Wired column makes weak claims about human behavior, psychology
- Reparative journalism Reporter sinks a controversial paper on “ex-gay” therapy
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- When a ‘birther’ story comes knocking After congressman’s comments, a Denver TV station doesn’t let go
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