The Audit

Audit Notes: Facebook Creeps, Apple and Ridicule, CDS Carnage

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 07:14 PM

As Facebook continues to steadily invade its users' privacy, it's been somewhat difficult to convey how exactly this has happened.... More

Good WSJ Probe Shows Oil Regulator’s Capture

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 06:48 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a great investigation on Minerals Management Service, the regulator supposed to oversee oil drilling. The... More

Coverage of TBTF Amendment FAIL Fails

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 04:22 PM

The Senate voted 61-33 yesterday against the so-called SAFE Banking Act, an amendment to the financial-reform bill that would have... More

Warning: Trans-Atlantic Tensions Ahead

By Holly Yeager   May 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM

There’s been a small, but sharp, undercurrent of trans-Atlantic tension in this week’s coverage of the Greek debt crisis. Judging... More

NYT Busts Out the Weasel Words for Stock Crash

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM

What the heck happened in the stock markets yesterday? Well, nobody really knows yet. So what do you do when... More

Audit Notes: The Market Crashes, The Market Bounces Back

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2010 at 07:29 PM

Let me give some rare Audit props to CNBC's Jim Cramer for his coverage during the stock-market crash today. As... More

Greek Omens

Bizpress was around the story; not too alarmist

By Holly Yeager   May 6, 2010 at 04:06 PM

The business press is starting to get used to this crisis-and-collapse thing. There was an eerie prescience in this morning’s... More

Audit Notes: Warren v. Dimon, Fudging the Books, REACTionaries

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2010 at 07:52 PM

Time's Stephen Gandel has a great post on why he can't find anyone to debate Elizabeth Warren on the proposed... More

Ad Age Shows Paywalls Preserving Print Circulation

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2010 at 04:04 PM

Advertising Age looks at small-paper paywalls and finds that they're having some success—at least in staving off print declines. I've... More

He Said-She Said Victim

By Holly Yeager   May 5, 2010 at 02:19 PM

After a few weeks of news coverage of Republican complaints that the financial reform legislation moving through Congress would permit... More

Shorter Wall Street Journal: Blankfein’s Days Are Numbered

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM

Lloyd Blankfein isn't going to make it. That's basically what this Money & Investing story is saying today. It can't... More

Audit Notes: No Perp Walks, How Goldman’s Like Penny-Stock Boiler Rooms, WSJ iPad

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM

David Heath of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund takes a good look at how and why executives have so far... More

Audit D.C. Notes: NYT on Obama’s Juggling Act; Mystery Pollster on How It’s Done in the U.K., FT on the Very Long View

By Holly Yeager   May 4, 2010 at 04:21 PM

President Obama’s ideological juggling act gets thoughtful treatment from the NYT’s Jackie Calmes. There’s no real news in the piece,... More

“The Victor and the Vanquished”

Vanity Fair excerpts upcoming Sarah Ellison book on Murdoch’s Journal takeover

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2010 at 02:22 PM

Reading the Vanity Fair excerpt of Sarah Ellison's upcoming War at The Wall Street Journal, on Rupert Murdoch's takeover of... More

The Journal Comes Up Short on Lawmakers’ Short Selling

By Holly Yeager   May 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM

The Wall Street Journal has good instincts today, looking for hypocrisy in a place it’s known to dwell: Capitol Hill.... More