The Audit

On a Diet on the Second Front

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 30, 2009 at 02:22 PM

Here's a good example of the Murdoch-era Wall Street Journal short-arming a potentially interesting story. The paper reports on B1... More

A Bureau Where They Reported Stories to Death

By Dean Starkman   Oct 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM

The hue, cry and gnashing of teeth over News Corp.'s takeover of The Wall Street Journal's parent a couple of... More

An Excellent NYT Column on Financialization

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Every writer knows the feeling of reading something you wish you'd written yourself. That's what I got with Floyd Norris's... More

Newspapers Get the Slate Treatment

Yes, the industry is doing that badly

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 29, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Slate got extra contrary last night, talking up the newspaper biz in a piece headlined "Newspapers aren't doing as badly... More

Following AIG and Goldman: the Friedman case

By Dean Starkman   Oct 29, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal are doing a good job of ignoring the unhelpful business press convention of not... More

The Colour of Galleon’s Money

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 29, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Here's one of those strange stories that could be one that blows a story wide open or one that blows... More

Wednesday Links: Cable Bluster, Night School, Footnotes First

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17 PM

What was CNN doing having sports journalist Stephen A. Smith on to debate Times business wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin on... More

Hard Truths on Social Security from Leonhardt

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2009 at 04:35 PM

The New York Times's David Leonhardt has a smart column this morning on the administration's skewed spending priorities. By spelling... More

WSJ’s Clean Galleon Get

By Dean Starkman   Oct 28, 2009 at 02:31 PM

There's nothing quite like a clean scoop of a delicate nature on a major story of global interest. But that's... More

Rhetoric and Reality on Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a nice analysis on pay czar Kenneth Feinberg's plan to restrict compensation at seven corporate-welfare... More

Tuesday Links: Circulation, Mouthpieces, Galleon

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 07:17 PM

One of the critical questions for what remains of the newspaper industry's near-to-medium-term future is how much of the recent... More

Seattle Times Reviews WaMu, Hometown Predator

An excellent postmortem details a corrupted culture

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 04:42 PM

Hats off to The Seattle Times for an excellent two-part series investigating the demise of Washington Mutual, onetime hometown hero... More

Another Totemic Story in the WSJ

By Dean Starkman   Oct 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM

I was sent up there to cover the Hot Rod & Custom Car show by the New York Herald Tribune,... More

Bloomberg on AIG as Banks’ Backdoor Bailout

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Bloomberg has an important story today on the bailout of the banks through AIG. Estimating that an essentially bankrupt company... More

Monday Links: Circ Collapse, Main Street, Patriots

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2009 at 07:46 PM

At the Nieman Journalism Lab, Martin Langeveld digs into the catastrophic newspaper numbers. Every six month increment for (weekday) newspaper... More