The Audit

BusinessWeek to Grow—Really!

All but left for dead two months ago, the weekly will expand its pages

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 01:21 PM

Fortune and Forbes better look out. BusinessWeek, just a couple of months ago given decent odds to disappear from the... More

WSJ on Eminent Domain in Brooklyn

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM

It's almost never a bad idea to do an eminent-domain story, especially the Kelo-type ones that pit the government in... More

Tuesday Links: Scrubbed Dirty, Game Theory, Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 07:10 PM

Charles Duhigg's investigation of the state of the nation's water continues today with an excellent piece on page one of... More

BizWeek Emblematic of the Fall of Print

From $1 billion to less than $5 million in nine years

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 06:37 PM

The big business-media news this week will be BusinessWeek's sale to Bloomberg for $2 million to $5 million plus the... More

NYT’s Sorkin Is Confused on Goldman Bonuses

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 04:27 PM

Clueless paragraph of the day: But we can’t have it both ways, either. At one moment, many in the nation... More

Stimulate This!

Slate’s Gross debunks stimulus nonsense

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2009 at 01:55 PM

Like Daniel Gross, I get the impression that people, including many journalists, just can't get their heads around the stimulus.... More

WaPo on High-Cost Banking

By Dean Starkman   Oct 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM

The Post,which has done good work previously on the high cost of poverty, weighs in with a look at efforts... More

Hackers From Minsk

By Dean Starkman   Oct 13, 2009 at 09:15 AM

Wired takes an interesting look at computer security breaches at Wal-Mart from a few years ago. It's a good probe,... More

WSJ Looks at More Crawley Things in the Market

By Dean Starkman   Oct 13, 2009 at 08:20 AM

At a time of great suspicion of all things Wall Street, stories start to emerge of sneaky tricks that insiders... More

Monday Links: Reuters Investigates, Debt Iceberg, USAT

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2009 at 05:58 PM

Chris Roush reports that Reuters is hiring some investigative reporters, a welcome development in a time of reduced journalistic ambitions.... More

WaPo: Why BofA Lags on Mortgage Redos

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2009 at 04:42 PM

The Washington Post asks why Bank of America is so far behind everyone else on its mortgage-modification program. It's only... More

Times Discovers S&L-asaurus Working For Citi

By Dean Starkman   Oct 12, 2009 at 03:32 PM

I don't want to let the day pass without a nod to a bit of accountability reporting by Gretchen Morgenson... More

Maremont and the Journal Hammer Option Schemes

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Anytime The Wall Street Journal's news pages can make the editorial side spit up their eggs benedict, well, that has... More

WSJ Misses the Mark on Consumer Credit

By Dean Starkman   Oct 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM

It's hard to understand how a major financial news outlet, at this late hour, can discuss the "democratization" of consumer... More

WSJ and Reuters on High-Frequency Trading

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2009 at 06:30 AM

The press continues to try to shine a light on high-frequency trading. This morning, The Wall Street Journal reports on... More