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Suggested Readings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 18, 2009 at 05:30 PM

The New York Times's Charles Duhigg continues his eye-opening investigation of the state of the nation's water quality, today looking... More

WSJ: Hey, Readers—Your Jobs Aren’t That Important

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 18, 2009 at 03:45 PM

I really like this page-one Wall Street Journal story today looking at the financialization of the economy over the past... More

Pearlstein: Fundamental Reform for Credit Ratings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Steven Pearlstein does well to keep the credit-ratings firms in the spotlight, a place it seems they've been all too... More

Suggested Readings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 06:37 PM

Michael Mandel of BusinessWeek calculates some rough numbers on journalism employment. Newspaper employment is fast approaching a 50 percent decline... More

Missing the Point on the Anglicization of the WSJ

“Come a cropper” is the least of the paper’s problems

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 05:17 PM

It's good to see somebody else notice the Anglicization of the The Wall Street Journal. It's not good that that... More

Investors vs. the Public

Why the business press should focus on the latter

By Dean Starkman   Sep 17, 2009 at 05:02 PM

Bloomberg posts interesting results of a poll saying that investors and the general public see Obama's economic performance very differently.... More

“Learned, Baroque, and Quite Frequently Terrifying”

The New Republic profiles the Financial Times’s Martin Wolf

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 01:39 PM

We're big fans of the Financial Times's Martin Wolf here at The Audit. His Wednesday columns and occasional takeouts are... More

A WSJ Deal Column After The Audit’s Own Heart

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM

It's not often you see something like this in the financial press. David Weidner writes on The Wall Street Journal... More

Suggested Readings

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2009 at 07:04 PM

Felix and Barry do it. So can I! The NYT says China's slap back at the U.S. tire tariff may... More

Anticipating Peter Goodman’s New Book

By Dean Starkman   Sep 16, 2009 at 05:53 PM

If this excerpt is any indication, Past Due, a new book by New York Times economics writer Peter S. Goodman... More

Mint Makes a Mint

But press coverage of the $170 million deal leaves a bad taste

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2009 at 04:11 PM

The press, institutionally, has an all-too-short memory. But have we already forgotten some of the lessons of the tech bubble,... More

Trade, “Buy American,” and the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Trade reporting has picked up in the last couple of days after the Obama administration slapped a fat tariff on... More

WSJ Will Charge for Mobile Access

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2009 at 04:49 PM

Rupert Murdoch is putting his money—or more accurately, "your money"—where his mouth is, announcing that his Wall Street Journal will... More

The Press Hypes This Morning’s Retail Sales Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM

There they go again. The press is out of the gate with the first news stories on the retail sales... More

Anniversary Stories, Lehman Brothers, and Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2009 at 06:22 PM

We're still wading through the anniversary stories in the business press, one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered... More