The Audit

Is Washingtonpost.com Forgetting About Its Congress Page?

By Holly Yeager   May 20, 2010 at 12:53 PM

If you woke up Thursday wondering what was happening with the financial regulation reform bill in the Senate, the Congress... More

Audit Notes: Not-So-Goldman Advice, One Source Stories, Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2010 at 09:43 PM

Bloomberg reports that even though Goldman Sachs, along with other banks, won on every day at the dog tracks last... More

Tribune Investigation Finds Mercury-Laced Skin Creams

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2010 at 09:07 PM

A terrific investigation today by the Chicago Tribune discovered high levels of mercury in skin-whitening creams on shelves across Chicago.... More

Judis Delivers a Tea Party History Lesson

Paul’s Kentucky victory prompts new coverage of the movement

By Holly Yeager   May 19, 2010 at 03:34 PM

Rand Paul’s victory in Kentucky has brought new energy to the Tea Party crowd—and prompted a flurry of coverage of... More

The New York Times’s Devastating Goldman Piece

Morgenson and Story unload on the bank’s conflicted business model

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2010 at 11:18 AM

The New York Times goes long on the conflict machine that is Goldman Sachs. It's a devastating synthesis of what's... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Win, Tully Calls a Crash, Sugar Shock

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2010 at 08:20 PM

The Wall Street Journal has been doing solid work on the BP/Transocean oil spill, and today's paper has another good... More

Fortune Sounds Out of Tune With a Facebook Piece

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2010 at 06:20 PM

Reading Fortune these days, it's all-too-often hard to tell we've been going through a crisis of capitalism for the last... More

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs?

As press coverage falters, the Washington conversation keeps shifting

By Holly Yeager   May 18, 2010 at 02:43 PM

The stubborn unemployment rate may be the biggest economic issue facing the country. But the business press’s coverage hasn’t kept... More

Watching the Banking Canaries in the Coal Mine

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2010 at 11:57 AM

Bloomberg and the Financial Times are good to emphasize that the banking system—at least in Europe—is shuddering yet again in... More

Audit Notes: WaPo on a Whistleblower, Analysts, Reshuffled Toxic Assets Still Toxic

By Ryan Chittum   May 17, 2010 at 07:14 PM

— The Washington Post ran a terrific piece yesterday on UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld yesterday, a flawed hero (aren't they... More

Oklahoman Columnist Strikes Out

Softball, stereotypes, and straw

By Ryan Chittum   May 17, 2010 at 03:24 PM

Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman devotes an entire column to what I and a couple of others said last week... More

A Times Profile of Bernanke is Too-Decorous By Half

By Holly Yeager   May 17, 2010 at 02:05 PM

The New York Times put Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke front and center on Sunday. But in this long, long profile,... More

NYT vs. NYT on the Big Fat Greek Question

By Holly Yeager   May 14, 2010 at 07:10 PM

It’s New York Times columnist vs. New York Times columnist, again. Back in April, it was Paul Krugman and Andrew... More

Audit Notes: Some Ads Up; Mr., Mrs., Messrs.; Visualize Your Music Purchase

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2010 at 07:06 PM

Happy days are here again. Well, not really. But magazine ads are up (in the monthly-mag category anyway) 5 percent... More

Spotty Coverage of the Financial Reform Amendments

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2010 at 01:14 PM

The Senate has been adding tough amendment after tough amendment to the financial-reform bill. Okay, tougher than anybody thought they... More