The Audit

NYT Examines the Impact of the Crisis on Kids

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2009 at 01:47 PM

A few weeks ago I praised a Sesame Street special, of all things, for putting a human face on the... More

WSJ Tinkers With a Perfectly Good Story

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting front-page story on tinkerers this morning, but the paper undermines it with a... More

Wednesday Links: Wages, Pre-rolling in It, State Capitalism, Po’ Boys

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2009 at 08:57 PM

Breakingviews would like you to know, in its coldly calculating way, that Americans earn too much relative to the rest... More

A Snapshot of a Journalist at Work on Bear Stearns

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 11, 2009 at 02:16 PM

With Bear Stearns' Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin in the news, Janet Tavakoli passes along an excerpt from her new... More

Some Misses on the Bear Stearns Acquittals

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

The only Wall Street executives to be charged in the crisis walked away from a Brooklyn courthouse free men after... More

WSJ Scoops on AIG

By Dean Starkman   Nov 11, 2009 at 08:19 AM

The WSJ scores a nice scoop this morning with word that the relatively new head of AIG wants to quit... More

Tuesday Links: One-Source FT, Soaring APRs, Severance

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2009 at 10:26 PM

The Financial Times runs one of those no-context, let's-quote-one-source-with-obvious-bias stories it likes to do, this one on global food corporations... More

Loyal Readers and Junk Traffic

The bottom 75 percent of newspaper Web visitors provide just 14 percent of page views

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2009 at 01:29 PM

(See the first part of this post) What the Journal does have that nobody else does is more than a... More

What’s Murdoch Up to with Google and WSJ.com?

Google traffic is worth far less than $15 per user per month

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Everybody's all inflamed about Rupert Murdoch bumbling through part of an interview on News Corp.'s Internet strategy in which he... More

Monday Links: Bad Stats, TBTF, “Less with Less”

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM

The New York Times reports that "A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the... More

LAT a Bit Wide of the Mark on Health Care

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2009 at 03:33 PM

The Los Angeles Times's David Lazarus beats back an accusation of using a red herring—and then goes on to push... More

Good WSJ Story on the Wall Street-Subprime Nexus

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a good scoop on a story showing the connection of Wall Street to the shadier... More

Friday Links: A Contrite Banker, Pay to Play, Gutting SOX

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2009 at 08:06 PM

Bloomberg finds a contrite banker, John Reed the former CEO of Citigroup who merged it with Sandy Weill's Travelers in... More

Dow Jones on the Paper-It-Over Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2009 at 03:22 PM

Dow Jones Newswires breaks an excellent story on Wells Fargo's efforts to delay its day of reckoning on billions and... More

WSJ Spotlight Helps Get Results on Antitrust

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM

The Wall Street Journal follows up this morning on its report on CVS Caremark's business practices six months ago. The... More