The Audit

Audit D.C. Notes: Who’s Unemployed, What’s Obama Saying, Where’s Washingtonpost.com’s Congress News?

By Holly Yeager   Jun 3, 2010 at 04:30 PM

The long-term unemployment scene just keeps getting worse, and The Wall Street Journal is good to highlight the problem: The... More

Audit Notes: Fan/Fred Still?, Zuck Shucked, Labor-Standards Arbitrage

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2010 at 02:13 PM

Some people are still hauling out the false argument that Fannie and Freddie caused the housing bubble and thus, the... More

The Blogs Blast Buffett

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM

The news reporting this morning on Warren Buffett's testimony doesn't exactly move me. But the blogs sure are fun. Edmund... More

Audit Notes: Gasparino, Claman, and Buffett; McClatchy; Labor Demonization

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2010 at 08:29 PM

Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business News rakes Warren Buffett over the coals today for his hypocrisy on Moody's. This is... More

FT Gives a New Starbucks the Section-Front Treatment

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2010 at 03:37 PM

It's not like there's a dearth of stories in financial journalism these days. So what is the Financial Times doing... More

WaPo Crunches Leadership PAC Numbers

By Holly Yeager   Jun 2, 2010 at 02:34 PM

The Washington Post shines a light on an increasingly important fixture in Washington’s money and politics scene, the leadership PAC.... More

With Graduation Series, NPR’s Anecdotes Tell Only Part of the Story

By Holly Yeager   Jun 2, 2010 at 01:18 PM

NPR is marking graduation season with a series on recent grads and “the frustrations and fears they face as they... More

WSJ iPad Numbers Are Looking Good

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM

Rupert Murdoch says The Wall Street Journal has 10,000 subscribers paying for the paper on the two-month-old iPad. That's an... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s Wells Notice, BP’s Wells Permits, Dogpile

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2010 at 05:31 PM

Matthew Goldstein of Reuters reports that Goldman Sachs told Calpers, the California public-pension giant, in March that it wasn't under... More

Audit D.C. Notes: WaPo on the Debt Dilemma, CAP Previews the FinReg Conference, Rachman on Happy Warriors, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Jun 1, 2010 at 04:01 PM

The Washington Post does well today with a nice plain-English look at a contemporary conundrum: The U.S. government debt is... More

Sequestered in Memphis

The NYT does strong reporting on blacks’ vanishing gains

By Holly Yeager   Jun 1, 2010 at 01:38 PM

The New York Times continues its excellent series on The New Poor with a look at Memphis, and the socioeconomic... More

Nick Carr and How Links Hurt Reading

Yes, embedded links are distracting

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2010 at 12:57 PM

Nicholas Carr has a fascinating book excerpt in this month's Wired looking at what the Internet does to how we... More

Audit Notes: Journal Greatness, The Shallows, Fortune Too Kind

By Ryan Chittum   May 28, 2010 at 05:09 PM

The Wall Street Journal drops part two of its series on how the BP catastrophe happened. I praised yesterday's devastating... More

Missing the Paywall Point

What do the Irish News and the Guardian teach us about paywalls?

By Ryan Chittum   May 28, 2010 at 03:01 PM

The Guardian's Roy Greenslade thinks we should take a lesson about paywalls from the Irish News, a 45,000-circulation daily that... More

The Times Takes a Timely Look at Migration

By Holly Yeager   May 28, 2010 at 02:55 PM

The New York Times has a fascinating look at an angle of the immigration story that often goes unnoticed: international... More