The Audit

Bloomberg Tough on Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Bloomberg takes a good look at the fading chance to anything meaningful to reform the financial system, noting that "Two... More

NYT’s Creativity On the Unemployment Story

By Dean Starkman   Dec 15, 2009 at 05:56 PM

The Times deserves a little something extra in its pay envelope for this morning's unemployment package: a story based on... More

WSJ Excels on Retirement Risk for Execs, Employees

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM

I love this Wall Street Journal story this morning on how CEOs, despite their rich paydays, often get automatic gains... More

Monday Links: Banks Winning, Volcker’s ATM, TARP Paybacks

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 14, 2009 at 06:23 PM

This is a really solid Bloomberg story on lobbying and how the bank lobby has really won, even if new... More

Everybody’s Got an Angle

WSJ’s Thomson on NYT’s Carr

By Dean Starkman   Dec 14, 2009 at 05:42 PM

It’s probably an understatement to say that we at The Audit weren’t nuts about the prospect of News Corp. buying... More

Mark Pittman, In His Own Words, On Camera

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 14, 2009 at 03:12 PM

You've read quite a bit by the late Mark Pittman of Bloomberg. You've read quite a bit about him here... More

Carr on the Journal’s News Pages Moving Right

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 14, 2009 at 10:22 AM

David Carr has a good column about the rightward tilt of Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal, which before he took... More

Friday Links: Goldman and AIG, Bernie’s Life, Why a Windfall

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a major story tonight, presumably slated for page one of tomorrow's paper, showing that Goldman... More

Early Results from the Newsday Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2009 at 06:02 PM

It's no surprise that Newsday's Web traffic declined after it put up a paywall. What is surprising is how it... More

WSJ Follows the Loopholes on Regulation Bill

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2009 at 05:21 PM

The Journal found a good angle for its curtain-raising story on the House financial-regulation vote today. The paper digs into... More

Overplaying Goldman’s Bonus Move

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) is making some baby steps on pay, but the press way overplays what is essentially... More

Thursday Links: Sorkin, Rosie, Ginnie Mae

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2009 at 05:27 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin sounds better notes on The Daily Show than he does in most of his own columns. "The... More

McClatchy Takes on the SEC’s “Too Big to Punish”

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2009 at 04:42 PM

McClatchy continues its fine recent watchdog work with a package looking at the SEC's slap-on-the-wrist regime. It's a smart new... More

The UK Windfall-Tax Bombshell’s Second Day

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2009 at 10:32 AM

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times go A1 with second-day(ish) stories on Britain's bold bid to slap a... More

Wednesday Links: Lost Docs, No-Bid Bonds, Ex-Im

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2009 at 06:35 PM

ProPublica pushes back against the idea, furthered by a recent New York Times column, that the administration's loan-modification program is... More