The Audit
(Almost) All-Ivy Audit Notes: The Corporation, Repo 105, Complexity Trap
By Ryan Chittum Apr 1, 2010 at 05:47 PM
Justin Fox of the Harvard Business Review has the most interesting read of the day, an interview with historian Brian... More
Reuters’ Imaginary WSJ/NYT Price War
By Ryan Chittum Apr 1, 2010 at 05:31 AM
Reuters gets a story on the upcoming Wall Street Journal/New York Times Battle for New York all wrong. And PaidContent... More
Google Is Not a Heroic Defender of Privacy
By Ryan Chittum Apr 1, 2010 at 04:16 AM
The New York Times reports that a coalition, including companies like Google, is trying to push tougher privacy laws for... More
Audit Notes: NYTPad, Perp Walks, Warren’s War
By Ryan Chittum Apr 1, 2010 at 01:28 AM
What will a newspaper look like on the iPad? Here's a blurry sneak peek of screenshots of The New York... More
Bloomberg on the CDO Shuffle That Helped Break AIG
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Bloomberg dropped a major investigation today on the AIG collapse, shedding much-needed light on the conflicted role of CDO managers... More
Big Hole in an NYT Story on Oil Prices
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2010 at 05:25 PM
The New York Times writes that oil prices have been remarkably stable over the last year, settling into what it... More
A Tribune Lecture on Indebtedness
By Ryan Chittum Mar 31, 2010 at 11:25 AM
The Chicago Tribune scolds the government for taking on too much debt. And the paper knows whereof it speaks. Boy... More
Demolishing the Banks’ Anti-Consumer Spin
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2010 at 06:37 PM
The banking industry has helped water down consumer financial protection by arguing that consumer protection is a job best done... More
NYT’s Uncertain Trumpet on States’ Finances
By Holly Yeager Mar 30, 2010 at 12:59 PM
The New York Times starts with a simple premise today: With many states facing debt problems like Greece did—big budget... More
Was the Citi Bailout Really a Good Deal?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Dean Baker pointed out a myopic Washington Post story on Saturday reporting that the Treasury will make a several-billion-dollar profit... More
Audit Notes: Unfair Size Advantage, Bumped Down, WSJ Win
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2010 at 06:09 PM
Reuters Breakingviews finds another unfair advantage for the too-big-to-fail banks: They're paying less interest for deposits than their smaller competitors—a... More
Audit D.C. Notes: The FT Talks Turkey Lamb in Greece; Bloomberg Flexes Its Bond Stuff; NYT on Overqualified and Employed
By Holly Yeager Mar 29, 2010 at 04:39 PM
There’s nothing better on a big, complicated story like the Greek debt crisis than heading out for a walk and... More
Coverage of Tea Parties Evolves With the Movement
By Holly Yeager Mar 29, 2010 at 03:18 PM
The tea party movement is just over a year old, and it’s good to see the press’s coverage mature along... More
Getting Foxy with Sulzberger at the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2010 at 09:37 AM
Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff reeled in a stunner this weekend from The Wall Street Journal: Well, on the front page... More
The WSJ’s Confusing Subscription Prices
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2010 at 09:12 AM
I wrote yesterday that The Wall Street Journal's iPad pricing doesn't make sense. The paper will charge $17.99 a month... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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