The Audit

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

Audit Notes: Covering Investigations, the iPad Browser Threat, Rome

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2010 at 06:05 PM

ProPublica managing editor Stephen Engelberg has some good thoughts on how the press covers investigations, noting all the stories coming... More

Deploying Journalism on Unemployment

By Holly Yeager   May 13, 2010 at 03:09 PM

The New York Times does good reporting today on an under-examined bit of the unemployment story: those many jobs lost... More

The Press Misleads on a Gold “Record”

In real dollars it’s barely half the 1980 price

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2010 at 01:36 PM

Yesterday, the Financial Times, the most-sophisticated business newspaper in the world, published this head-slapper: Gold hits fresh record on inflation... More

Pushing Back Against Facebook’s Privacy Practices

The press and others bring needed new scrutiny to the social network

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM

The press has begun an overdue backlash against Facebook, whose privacy invasions have grown increasingly brazen as its user base... More

Audit Notes: ProPublica’s Dead Prez Prospectuses; Citi and Deutsche, Too; Michael Lewis

By Ryan Chittum   May 12, 2010 at 06:41 PM

ProPublica's Marian Wang advances the WSJ's scoop on the Morgan Stanley "Dead Presidents" investigation, publishing prospectuses from Citigroup and UBS—the... More