The Audit

WSJ’s (Soon CNBC’s) Kelly Advances the Goldman Story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 06:52 PM

Boy, losing Kate Kelly is a big blow to The Wall Street Journal. She's had a hand in a disproportionate... More

Apple’s Speech Policies Should Still Worry the Press

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Apple has asked Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore to "resubmit" his iPhone/iPad application for approval, with Steve Jobs saying it... More

Bartlett on Shallow Think Tanks—and How the Press Jumps in Them

By Holly Yeager   Apr 20, 2010 at 09:26 AM

Think tanks are in Washington’s DNA. But despite their outsized role in our politics and policy debates, the press rarely... More

Audit Notes: SEC and Stanford, Goldman and Wells, Murdoch’s Personal Feuds

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2010 at 08:33 PM

You've got to love this SEC investigation. I mean, of the SEC, not by it. Talking Points Memo revisits an... More

Mangling “Power Problem”

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2010 at 05:53 PM

Heidi N. Moore, an ex-WSJ staffer and vocal defender of the business press, has been Twittering like mad to lambaste... More

Springtime for Investigations as the SEC Acts

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2010 at 03:18 PM

It looks from the newspapers this morning like the dam has finally broken on prosecuting the crisis scandals. The New... More

Audit Notes: Goldman, Goldman, Goldman (What Else?)

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 05:30 PM

Marian Wang of ProPublica has a sharp follow-up to the blockbuster news that the SEC is charging Goldman Sachs with... More

Angelides, The Audit, and Unfair Lending

An ex-regulator’s testimony to the commission needs examining

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 04:40 PM

Comptroller of The Audit Dean Starkman spent three months last year poring over nearly a decade of financial-press archives to... More

Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Are a Business-Press Win

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM

The New York Times's Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson score a major scoop this morning with news that the SEC... More

USA Today Blurs an Important Mortgage Line

By Holly Yeager   Apr 16, 2010 at 12:11 PM

Looking for more good economic news? I see USA Today is ready to declare that the worst of the foreclosure... More

Audit Notes: First FOIA Bank Run?, Demand a Second Opinion, Doctor

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 06:58 PM

The big banks are continuing to fight Bloomberg's Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Fed, which would force it to... More

It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple

Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 05:21 PM

The Nieman Journalism Lab's Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees... More

Missing the Mortgage-Mod Story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Still think The Huffington Post is just an aggregator of lefty opinion and tabloid fluff? Okay, it's still that, but... More

Audit Notes: Say What, CME?; Magnetar Wrong; A Monster, All Right

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2010 at 06:10 PM

Felix Salmon examines the newly released unredacted version of the Valukas Report and finds what he calls a scandal in... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The Post Explains Competing Stern Narratives; NYT on the Revolting Revolving Door, John Kay on the Failures of Economics

By Holly Yeager   Apr 14, 2010 at 04:35 PM

Since Politico’s Ben Smith reported Andy Stern’s planned exit from SEIU on Monday, there have been competing narratives applied to... More