The Audit

Newspapers’ Online Ads Are Worse Than You Think

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2010 at 03:22 PM

Martin Langeveld points out something interesting in Scripps's fourth-quarter earnings: Those already-dismal online advertising numbers you've seen for newspapers? They're... More

Fed Up, Consumers Down

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2010 at 06:00 AM

The Federal Reserve isn't exactly known as a friend of the little guy. And for good reason. So it borders... More

Audit Notes: CDS Ban, WSJ v. NYT, A No-Layoffs Policy

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2010 at 08:19 PM

Wolfgang Munchau asks in the Financial Times why it's still legal to buy credit-default swaps when you don't own the... More

The Unemployed on the Payday Loan Treadmill

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2010 at 02:50 PM

The Los Angeles Times reports that payday lenders are feasting on the jobless, taking huge chunks of their unemployment checks... More

Perspective, Please, on China

By Holly Yeager   Mar 1, 2010 at 02:34 PM

The New York Times added to the unstoppable-China meta-narrative over the weekend with an interesting report from the country’s industrial... More

Breakingviews Says This Out of Love, Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Shorter Reuters Breakingviews: "The great Goldman Sachs, despite its greatness, should apologize for not living up to its higher standards... More

Audit Notes: North Dakota Tea, WSJ Heds, AP Charge

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2010 at 07:07 PM

This is good bread-and-butter business reporting by The Wall Street Journal. It reports on an oil boom unfolding in North... More

A Few Sour Notes In National Journal’s Chamber Piece

By Holly Yeager   Feb 26, 2010 at 10:37 AM

National Journal goes in a good direction this week, with a long look at a powerful Washington institution that gets... More

No Context on the Fed’s New Fangs

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM

Since when has the Federal Reserve been an investigative pit bull? Since never. But don't look to the major papers... More

Audit Notes: NYT CDS, Embargoes, Obama Folds

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 25, 2010 at 08:59 PM

I had some reservation about the Times story on Greece and credit-default swaps this morning. Although I liked the idea... More

Reinflating the Bubble

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 25, 2010 at 06:28 PM

A relative of mine just got this in the mail from Bank of America Home Loans (ie: Countrywide) offering to... More

Are Swaps Helping Create a Greek Death Spiral?

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM

It's a good idea for The New York Times to point out that Wall Street is betting against Greece after... More

Audit Notes: Rewrite, Taibbi’s Coffee, TBTF Antitrust

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2010 at 07:52 PM

Jonathan Stray of the Nieman Journalism Lab finds that of 121 stories on Google hackers being traced to schools in... More

Was IndyMac a Sweetheart Deal or Just Sweet?

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2010 at 05:03 PM

The Los Angeles Times is good to point out that the consortium of billionaires and might-as-well-be-billionaires, including George Soros and... More

What’s a Toyota “Exclusive?” at This Point?

Bloomberg pushes the definition

By Dean Starkman   Feb 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM

What is an exclusive, anyway? This is more than journalism competition issue. As readers sort through the news gusher, it's... More