The Audit

Wednesday Links: Sí, SI; NYCWSJ; NHL Dollar

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2009 at 04:57 PM

I've thought for a while now that the last best hope for newspapers and magazines was some sort of e-reader... More

They’re Baaack

A crucial FT report shows egregious Bubble Era lending practices returning

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2009 at 01:39 PM

David Leonhardt is somewhat sanguine about the state of the financial system given its apparent steadiness after the Dubai World... More

A Little WSJ Slice of Trump’s Life

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2009 at 06:15 AM

Here's a good Wall Street Journal story this morning on yet another Trump feud, this one with a former casino... More

Tuesday Links: Goldie’s Guns, WSJ.com, Reprints

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2009 at 06:39 PM

Alice Schroeder, Buffett's biographer, writes in her Bloomberg column that she hears anecdotally that Goldman Sachs (an Audit funder) bankers... More

Just Another Cyber Monday

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2009 at 04:18 PM

Oh, brother. The fifth annual round of "Cyber Monday" stories are here to hype a pure concoction of the online... More

Hertz Drops a Libel Suit

By Dean Starkman   Dec 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM

A tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to Aaron Elstein and Crain’s New York, which seems to have gotten some... More

Moral Force

Why Mark Pittman matters

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 1, 2009 at 09:47 AM

The first time I ever talked to Pittman was for an Audit Interview back in February. We do these Q&A's... More

Monday Links; Pittman Roundup, Carr Elegy for NYC Media

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 30, 2009 at 08:29 PM

Paul Conley, who worked for the late Mark Pittman at Bloomberg, memorializes Pittman as a "a bigger-than-life, over-the-top, lovable stereotype... More

The Pittman Way

A financial reporter who combined data and attitude

By Dean Starkman   Nov 30, 2009 at 02:53 PM

Q: Tell me how your cops background plays into what you’re doing now. A: You end up with a big... More

Questionable News Judgment of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Why does The Wall Street Journal put a fourth-day news story about a golfer's minor car accident on page-two today?... More

Mark Pittman, Bloomberg’s Bulldog, Dies at 52

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM

We were stunned to learn a couple of days ago of top Bloomberg investigative reporter Mark Pittman's death. As I... More

Wednesday Links: Interchange, Make Believe, Overstock Junket

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 07:11 PM

The New York Times continues its series on plastic, looking at how capping interchange fees on credit cards has played... More

The Press Underplays the Bad-Banks News

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 03:35 PM

The major business press underplays news from the FDIC that its troubled-banks list soared to more than 550 in the... More

The Big Money: Shoppers Beware

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 01:36 PM

Heidi N. Moore makes some fine points in a piece over at The Big Money that riffs off Best Buy... More

WSJ Goes Easy on Private Equity in Oz

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Why does The Wall Street Journal think tax enforcement is "hostility"? That's what a news report on the front of... More