The Audit

A Good Food-Safety Investigation from the Times

By Dean Starkman   Oct 5, 2009 at 09:25 AM

Credit is due the Times and veteran investigative reporter Michael Moss for a painstaking and stomach-turning account yesterday of the... More

Friday Links: Wolff, Shirky, Veterans for Socialism

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2009 at 06:45 PM

Michael Wolff, whose Newser depends on free news for its existence, rips Rupert Murdoch in Vanity Fair for planning to... More

Hiltzik With a Reality Check on Tort Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2009 at 04:11 PM

Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times has a helpful column cutting through some of the noise in the health-care... More

Of Buts and Bloomberg News

By Dean Starkman   Oct 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM

Bloomberg News top editor Matt Winkler raised eyebrows around the newswire/data provider the other week with his op-ed in The... More

Norris Asks Why Cash Subsidizes Plastic

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Floyd Norris raises a very good point in his column today on merchant credit-card fees: Why do we have a... More

Good Show by the Journal Today

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2009 at 03:15 PM

Dean Starkman tipped his hat to a Wall Street Journal story this morning on Detroit, part of a string of... More

Buy a Kindle, Get the Times for Free

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2009 at 11:56 AM

A Friend of The Audit passed us an email he got from The New York Times offering a package deal... More

Urban-Affairs Reporting in the WSJ

By Dean Starkman   Oct 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM

The Journal deserves a nod for a good inside-the-paper story on Detroit public schools' using free food, celebrity visits and... More

Weil: Bank Balance Sheets Still an Unknown

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 1, 2009 at 09:58 AM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil raises some good questions about what we really know about the banking industry's health this morning, looking... More

Gasparino’s Gossip Column

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 30, 2009 at 02:41 PM

Charlie Gasparino really wants you to know that Wall Street executives are "nervous" and "feel betrayed" by Barack Obama. Is... More

CQ Stomps Out Newsroom Dissent

Setting a bad example by firing a veteran editor for impertinence

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 30, 2009 at 08:04 AM

When the human-resources folks come for you, and in journalism these days that's not infrequent, you have to hope somebody... More

The Journal Edges to the Right

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM

Charles Kaiser had a good piece this weekend questioning whether Rupert Murdoch's ideology has been seeping into the news pages... More

WaPo: How the Fed Failed to Protect Consumers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2009 at 03:18 PM

The Washington Post ran an excellent story yesterday looking at the Federal Reserve's utter failure to protect consumers—indeed to even... More

Now Bloomberg Calls it an Obama Bull Market

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM

I nicked Bloomberg for a story in March calling the stock-market swoon an "Obama Bear Market." Now it's saying there's... More

Morgenson on a Mortgage Front

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 28, 2009 at 09:51 AM

Gretchen Morgenson, unlike the rest of the press, pays attention to a Kansas court ruling last week that has potentially... More