The Audit

Why Alt Media Beat the MSM to the Mortgage Crisis

They were tuned to a different audience

By Alyssa Katz   Sep 14, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Over recent months, The Audit and CJR have investigated how it was that business reporters failed to see the crisis... More

Looking at BusinessWeek’s Prospects

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2009 at 10:39 AM

Somebody finally got a hold of the BusinessWeek sale documents, and they clarify the magazine's prospects a bit. The New... More

BW Looks at Effectiveness of Proposed Reforms

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 11, 2009 at 05:35 PM

We've been watching press coverage of regulatory reform closely here at The Audit for several months. The press has done... More

Lessons from “Sesame Street”

PBS hits home with a look at the economic fallout on families

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Last night, I saw some of the best journalism on regular working folks that I've seen in some time. But... More

WSJ: Some Restaurant Won’t Take Cash Now

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM

File this one under odd news judgment: A Greenwich Village restaurant is no longer taking cash. The Wall Street Journal... More

Wrongheaded and Incomplete on Incomes

The Wall Street Journal, comforting the comfortable with selective data

By David Cay Johnston   Sep 10, 2009 at 03:07 PM

This morning’s page-one Wall Street Journal story on incomes in America contains many bungled facts and concepts in a single... More

The Times on a Real Estate Deal Gone (Deservedly) Bad

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 10, 2009 at 02:22 PM

The New York Times on page one today looks at the fate of the buyout of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and... More

WSJ on the Prospects for Reform

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2009 at 05:48 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an okay page-one look at the prospects for financial reform, concluding that they've "faltered" as... More

The Times Takes on Overdraft “Protection”

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2009 at 07:00 AM

The New York Times goes big this morning on the overdraft "protection" racket with a front-page story looking at this... More

Somebody Else (!) Takes on the Murdoch Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2009 at 05:31 PM

The blog NYTPicker, in the course of praising a page one Times story yesterday, turns its critical eye on The... More

Plagiarism Follies at the Courant

TribCo unit fumbles a scandal

By Dean Starkman   Sep 8, 2009 at 03:53 PM

On the subject of newspapers chewing their own legs off, the Hartford Courant, is in the process of doing... More

The Unlearned Lessons of Lehman, a Year Later

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2009 at 03:26 PM

September 15 is a week away, so here come the Lehman Brothers retrospectives. First out of the gate is Bloomberg,... More

WSJ on a New Chamber of Commerce Campaign

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a scoop today that the Chamber of Commerce is funding a $2 million ad campaign... More

More on Print and Online Reader Revenue

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 4, 2009 at 04:23 PM

Michael Masnick of TechDirt took issue last week with my post showing the wide disparity between the value of online... More

Unemployment (Still) Worse Than You Think

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 4, 2009 at 09:53 AM

The press reports the bad news this morning that the unemployment rate closed in on 10 percent last month, hitting... More