The Audit

Running the Numbers on Obama’s State of the Union

By Holly Yeager   Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02 PM

It is nice to know how many times President Obama’s State of the Union address was interrupted by applause (eighty-six,... More

Newsday Paywall Is Barely Affecting Local Traffic

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2010 at 01:38 PM

The news that Newsday has signed up just thirty-five online subscribers since it put its Web site behind a paywall... More

Bloomberg’s One-Source Stories

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 28, 2010 at 10:51 AM

One of the essentials of writing a news story is to talk to more than one source. That's so basic... More

Audit Notes: Schedule AIG, Leveraging Pensions, Bank Labor v. Capital

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2010 at 08:23 PM

The mysterious AIG Schedule A, which the Federal Reserve concealed from the public (read our account here of how reporter... More

Outside the Forties

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2010 at 07:12 PM

We've often complained that the press, much less politicians and the regulators, are still playing three-yards-and-a-cloud-of dust ball between the... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Take a bow, NYT; LAT on foreign bonds; a WSJ tweak, etc.

By Holly Yeager   Jan 27, 2010 at 03:11 PM

What with the jumble of spending freeze/deficit projection/debt commission/federal budget/State of the Union coverage out there, it wouldn’t surprise us... More

Advancing the AIG Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2010 at 02:08 PM

Today is AIG day and there's lots of interesting stuff out there in the press (not to mention Geithner live... More

Advertising for Apple

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM

AdAge points out that Apple's new tablet may not exactly part the sea for the press, but it will probably... More

Audit Notes: The Newsday 35, WSJ Sun, Davos

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2010 at 07:32 PM

The New York Observer's John Koblin has had a busy day. First he broke a story on Newsday's paywall, which... More

Freeze, Framed

By Holly Yeager   Jan 26, 2010 at 02:39 PM

Hello, my name is Holly, and I’ll be your fiscal-and-economic-policy-coverage media critic here at The Audit. Would you like freeze... More

Revisiting the SIGTARP AIG Investigation

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2010 at 12:03 PM

The AIG backdoor-bailout story continues to build, with the TARP special inspector general now re-opening an investigation into the matter.... More

Audit Notes: Counterparties Relevant, Goldman/AIG, Beck on Stocks

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM

We've been asking this question for a few months now: Why did Tim Geithner tell the TARP special inspector general... More

Steve Jobs, Holy Moses

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2010 at 08:14 PM

Moses has been in the news a lot lately thanks to that more-modern oracle over at 1 Infinite Loop: Steve... More

Holly Yeager is CJR’s first Peterson Fellow

By Mike Hoyt   Jan 25, 2010 at 03:34 PM

The Columbia Journalism Review is pleased to announce the appointment of Holly Yeager as its first Peterson Fellow, covering news... More

The Press Angle of the Fed’s Backdoor-Bailout Cover-up

Geithner’s New York Fed responded to a FOIA by withholding more information

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Whatever Tim Geithner's New York Fed was trying to hide in the AIG backdoor bailout was so volatile it was... More