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Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme

By Ryan Chittum

November 30, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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Hot air Rises Above on CNBC An anchor pins a minor dip in stocks on the TV appearance of a minor politician

By Ryan Chittum

November 30, 2012 12:41 AM Comments (11)
The Audit

Audit Notes: WaPo on Avandia, giving away the store, plutocrats Report shows how drug research is corrupted by corporate money

By Ryan Chittum

November 29, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (5)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: FT’s Fairhead is out; BofA CEO stonewalls; Rent a Quote But Pearson says the paper is not for sale.

By Ryan Chittum

November 28, 2012 06:50 AM
The Audit

Amazon sharecroppers The Seattle Times on the hometown giant's uneasy relationship with its merchants

By Ryan Chittum

November 27, 2012 06:50 AM
The Audit

The Washington Post needs a paywall—now A strategic error needs to be reversed, stat

By Dean Starkman

November 26, 2012 10:00 AM Comments (14)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten The magazine's picks for future Apple and Microsoft CEOs go awry immediately

By Ryan Chittum

November 23, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: the free model, Coulson and Brooks, another DOJ stunt A musician writes a compelling business argument against Pandora

By Ryan Chittum

November 21, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy Corporate America's house organ starts an anti-political political campaign

By Ryan Chittum

November 20, 2012 02:57 PM Comments (57)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: marginal taxes, a redesign for core readers, Murdoch An NYT's anecdote's confusion goes uncorrected

By Ryan Chittum

November 20, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit

By Ryan Chittum

November 19, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: Papacare, Post problem, trade reporting Forbes finds Papa John's Obamacare math doesn't add up

By Ryan Chittum

November 16, 2012 03:08 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task The Post's ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom

By Ryan Chittum

November 15, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (3)
The Audit

Apples and oranges on Google and publishers Print performance is bad enough without putting a thumb on the scale

By Ryan Chittum

November 14, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: WaPo on the Bain thing, deadbeat Forbes, hamster wheel The Post's revealing slip-up on the definition of swift-boating

By Ryan Chittum

November 13, 2012 08:06 PM Comments (4)
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Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus JPMorgan CEO takes to CNBC for consolation

By Ryan Chittum

November 13, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive First-term bull market goes unmentioned after a November 7 stock dip

By Ryan Chittum

November 12, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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Audit Notes: low-info billionaires, Trump the taker, Elizabeth Warren Money apparently can't buy a firm grip on reality

By Ryan Chittum

November 9, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign A too-savvy take and flawed assumptions undermine some interesting reporting

By Ryan Chittum

November 8, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (9)
The Audit

Paywalls are a means, not an end A Toronto Star columnist's belligerence gets me thinking

By Dean Starkman

November 7, 2012 11:02 AM Comments (3)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: FT denies Bloomberg report, Drudge stats, financialization Misleading with bogus statistics

By Ryan Chittum

November 7, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
The Audit

Lessons from Sullivan-Silver fracas When digital and institutional cultures collide

By Dean Starkman

November 5, 2012 11:32 AM Comments (3)
The Audit

Audit Notes: Stray on Silver, the new-old Black, ‘rocketing’ from a low base Data-based journalism and its potential; an ex-mogul takes a flogging, etc.

By Dean Starkman

November 2, 2012 11:30 AM Comments (3)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack The wire's poorly worded story is misread

By Ryan Chittum

November 1, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (5)
The Audit

MSM: port in a storm And social media was not as useful as I’d thought it’d be

By Dean Starkman

October 31, 2012 07:35 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Bloomberg digs up more on Romney’s tax avoidance This loophole used the Mormon church's tax-exempt status to defer bills

By Ryan Chittum

October 31, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (32)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

The ‘downright dangerous’ Paul Krugman CNBC's Becky Quick thinks, wrongly, the economist is alone in debunking "fiscal crisis"

By Ryan Chittum

October 30, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (11)
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Send Candidates for The Best Business Writing 2013 Our 2nd annual compilation of business journalism’s best is closing soon; send us stuff

By Dean Starkman

October 29, 2012 11:19 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: inequality denial, AIG’s CEO, private equity WSJ op-ed pushes the false notion that the rich haven't pulled away from everyone else

By Ryan Chittum

October 29, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT Digital subs keep a weak earnings report from turning into a disastrous one

By Ryan Chittum

October 26, 2012 12:12 PM Comments (10)
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Audit Notes: NYT scoop, Freddie’s anti-stimulus, Wired on making stuff Riches for the family of a top Chinese official

By Ryan Chittum

October 26, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: dethroning DeMarco, the cult of disruption, China trade The FT reports Obama plans a big housing policy change if re-elected

By Ryan Chittum

October 25, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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Did the financial blogosphere go away? Whither the econobloggers

By Felix Salmon

October 24, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (3)
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Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags Not all is dark for the industry

By Ryan Chittum

October 24, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith An excellent personal-finance story from the Journal

By Ryan Chittum

October 23, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch The NYT looks at the insider/outsider roles of Anita Dunn

By Ryan Chittum

October 22, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

A CEO’s high-flying standards Bloomberg reports on Abercrombie & Fitch's Michael Jeffries

By Ryan Chittum

October 19, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (3)
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Are newspaper audiences really shrinking? A dialogue with Alan Mutter

By Dean Starkman

October 18, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (6)
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Tuesdays with Andrew Changing up a Dealbook ritual

By Dean Starkman

October 16, 2012 04:54 PM Comments (1)
The Audit

Audit Notes: a missing foreclosure figure, Denton, Brookes How many "boomerang" buyers are there again? Gawker's secret sauce, etc

By Dean Starkman

October 15, 2012 07:05 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: Google antitrust, the NYT on entrenched elites

By Ryan Chittum

October 15, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (8)
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The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop Emails between executives look like antitrust smoking guns

By Ryan Chittum

October 12, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC The network's tweet creates a misleading media narrative on the veep debate

By Ryan Chittum

October 12, 2012 03:57 AM Comments (23)
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Audit Notes: fraud without fraudsters edition Wells Fargo and JPMorgan shareholders, not executives, held accountable

By Ryan Chittum

October 11, 2012 12:21 PM Comments (4)
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Ask Obama This: What about housing? What went wrong with the administration's mortgage policies

By Ryan Chittum

October 11, 2012 06:50 AM
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Conspiracy Jack Welch, fleeing Fortune and Reuters, takes his nonsense to the WSJ editorial page

By Felix Salmon

October 10, 2012 05:15 PM Comments (1)
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Audit Notes: The FT’s prospects, another victimized billionaire, Bain & Co.

By Ryan Chittum

October 10, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’ Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage

By Ryan Chittum

October 9, 2012 01:51 PM Comments (10)
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Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers

By Ryan Chittum

October 9, 2012 12:15 PM Comments (5)
The Audit

Facing up to the high cost of free news Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model?

By Dean Starkman

October 8, 2012 11:27 AM Comments (20)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment The former GE CEO, still a business press hero

By Ryan Chittum

October 8, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (10)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Bleacher Report and the race to the bottom SF Weekly rips Turner Broadcasting's nearly $200 million purchase

By Ryan Chittum

October 5, 2012 01:32 PM Comments (3)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: Romney and taxes, prison phone racket, WSJ The Atlantic eyes the Republican's corporate tax plan

By Ryan Chittum

October 5, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (3)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: Mansion, inequality and the crash, FT on Schneiderman

By Ryan Chittum

October 4, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom A columnist's misleading economic history

By Ryan Chittum

October 3, 2012 06:40 PM Comments (10)
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Audit Notes: Insert hospice joke here, Web pagination, too big to value The Washington Post diversifies its business into end-of-life care

By Ryan Chittum

October 3, 2012 06:50 AM
The Audit

Romney’s gift to reporters A Bloomberg investigation details yet another aspect of the candidate's tax avoidance

By Ryan Chittum

October 2, 2012 07:50 AM Comments (13)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: wincing with WSJ, Golden Dawn, energy-market manipulation Treasury candidates and Journal art

By Ryan Chittum

October 2, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (5)
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Audit Notes: inside the Fed, few use Twitter, entitled ‘job creators’

By Ryan Chittum

October 1, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Billionaires made from scratch? Hardly Forbes spins a bogus Horatio Alger story about its 400 richest list

By Ryan Chittum

September 28, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (13)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: NYT’s Web bonanza, Doctor on paywalls, capital gains taxes The paper sells its stake in a jobs site for a stunning profit

By Ryan Chittum

September 28, 2012 12:46 AM Comments (2)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Smartphone money The Journal on how phones are weighing more on family budgets

By Ryan Chittum

September 27, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

The capital gains preference Why Mitt Romney's taxes are so low and whether economics justifies it

By Ryan Chittum

September 26, 2012 07:26 AM Comments (3)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along

By Ryan Chittum

September 25, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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Audit Notes: Digital First takedown, here comes the WSJ, debt and taxes The Awl roughs up Journal Register's flagship paper

By Ryan Chittum

September 24, 2012 10:51 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

The Newhouses strike back The Times-Picayune goes to war with the encroaching Baton Rouge Advocate

By Ryan Chittum

September 21, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (1)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

The inflation bugaboo, back again for QE3 Scare stories on an expected uptick in price expectations

By Ryan Chittum

September 20, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (20)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: high-frequency trading, Ann Arbor news, SEC access A whistleblower sparks a growing investigation, reports the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum

September 20, 2012 02:25 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: ‘makers and takers’ edition Romney's "47 percent" comment continues to reverberate

By Ryan Chittum

September 19, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Mitt Romney and the Lucky Duckies A gaffe created in the Fox News/WSJ editorial page echo chamber

By Ryan Chittum

September 18, 2012 03:28 PM Comments (12)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: News of the World’s thugs, Occupy impact, nonprofit news Allegations that the paper's gumshoes broke into houses looking for dirt

By Ryan Chittum

September 18, 2012 06:50 AM
Economic Crisis, The Audit

The Post goes south on NAFTA The paper ignores or glosses over Mexico trade's effects on the US

By Ryan Chittum

September 17, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (6)
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The hamster wheel vs. the quality imperative The real problem with JRC/Advance free model and the unappreciated benefit of a paywall

By Dean Starkman

September 14, 2012 07:22 AM Comments (8)
Economic Crisis, The Audit

Audit Notes: Bloomberg eyes CMBS, newspaper optimism, Weil on bank books Signs of froth return to commercial real estate lending

By Ryan Chittum

September 14, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The press sours a bit on Apple The company's control of its narrative is loosened by leaks

By Ryan Chittum

September 13, 2012 06:26 PM Comments (1)

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