The Audit

When Government Acts Like Private Industry

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM

The Wall Street Journal is good this morning to look at how public entities dirtied their hands in the bubble... More

Audit Notes: Underemployment, Rogue Industry, Schedule A

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2010 at 07:40 PM

The St. Petersburg Times's has an excellent profile of an MBA who's gone from a six-figure job to bagging groceries... More

Audit D.C. Notes: A Meta, Mega-Krugman Profile; State Tax-Receipt Nosedive; Traffic Tix as Revenue Source? Maybe.

By Dean Starkman and Holly Yeager   Feb 23, 2010 at 07:04 PM

--Larrissa MacFarquhar’s 10,000-word New Yorker profile of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has kind of a meta-feel to it,... More

Bloomberg’s Overdraft Story Doesn’t Have the Goods

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2010 at 03:27 PM

Bloomberg has its heart in the right place with a story on banks seeking new prey, err, revenue streams to... More

NYT Shows Banks Playing Dirty on Overdrafts

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM

The New York Times is excellent to spotlight how banks are using aggressive marketing tactics to try to trick customers... More

Audit Notes: Goldman-Greece, Planet Money, Leverage Limits

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2010 at 07:37 PM

The Wall Street Journal flooded the zone on the Goldman-Greece debt scandal with a troika of stories today. On page... More

On Bad Times, Times Does Good

By Holly Yeager   Feb 22, 2010 at 03:18 PM

With the unemployment rate hovering near 10 percent and a staggering 6.3 million people jobless for six months or more—the... More

The WSJ Is Hit and Miss on Geithner

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM

The Wall Street Journal has some interesting reporting this morning on Tim Geithner—reporting that doesn't do him any good. But... More

Audit Notes: The Fed Move Means…;Reuters on the SEC, Apple; WaPo on CRE gloom, etc.

By Dean Starkman and Holly Yeager   Feb 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM

The Fed move means... ...an end to emergency measures—Bloomberg. ...an end to easy bank profits—the Times. ...the financial system is... More

Audit Notes: An NYT Dud on Regulators; A Good Day for M&I; FT on AIG; HuffPo on Mortgages, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2010 at 07:28 PM

--Dean Baker is right to criticize the Times story this morning that reported on talks to set up a financial... More

Some Stimulus Coverage More Stimulating Than Others

By Holly Yeager   Feb 18, 2010 at 05:22 PM

On the year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, figuring out good ways to cover the stimulus is... More

As the Hamster Wheel Turns

As productivity demands soar, journalists need to talk

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2010 at 08:38 AM

In a piece on growing discontent on The Associated Press’s business desk, Gawker reported that the desk has a deal... More

Audit Notes: Koblin Continues on Kouwe; Old Reformers; A good, quick WSJ probe; Charlie Moves Over, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40 PM

-John Koblin continues to turn in strong work for the Observer on the Times Bizday plagiarism story, this time with... More

Threading the “News Analysis” Needle

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2010 at 08:44 AM

The lines between news and news analysis, and news analysis and opinion, are necessarily fuzzy. Most people would agree about... More

Audit Notes: NYO on an NYT Plagiarism Problem; Three Good Ones in the WSJ; plus Wolf

By Dean Starkman   Feb 16, 2010 at 07:16 PM

--John Koblin at the Observer broke an important story about apparent plagiarism involving Times business staffer Zachery Kouwes. A Times's... More