The Audit

A Post Deficit Story Ignores the Obvious

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2009 at 08:33 PM

There's a word missing from the Washington Post's lead story this morning on the budget deficit: "Bush." Its absence goes... More

NYT’s Floyd Norris Audits The Audit

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2009 at 01:02 PM

New York Times columnist Floyd Norris takes issue with my post Friday which noted that his column Friday said the... More

Criticizing Obama’s Bernanke Nomination

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2009 at 09:45 AM

The Battle of Bernanke has begun. Yesterday, the Journal broke the news that Obama would renominate Bernanke to run the... More

LAT’s Lazarus Alone Questions BofA Arbitration Move

The rest of the press missed a big piece of the story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2009 at 03:22 PM

The best personal-finance journalism isn't the kind where pundit X tells you why you shouldn't buy product Y or continuously... More

Bloomberg Wins Its Lawsuit Against the Federal Reserve

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Score one for Bloomberg in its lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to disclose who it's bailing out with... More

WSJ Keeps Goldman in the Spotlight

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 24, 2009 at 02:30 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a great scoop on A1 today reporting on a heretofore-unknown practice at Goldman Sachs called... More

Forbes on ExxonMobil: “Green Company of the Year”

Really?

By Curtis Brainard   Aug 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM

What an eye-grabber! “ExxonMobil: Green Company of Year.” I mean, who woulda thunk it? Too bad the provocative headline of... More

Three Faces of Greeley

How the local, regional, and national press covered a bank failure

By Elinore Longobardi   Aug 24, 2009 at 09:43 AM

What do you know about New Frontier Bank? We can pretty confidently say, that depends on where you live. If... More

WSJ v. NYT: Securitization Smackdown

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM

If you picked up both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times this morning, your head may be... More

Final Blow to a 60 Minutes story

By Dean Starkman   Aug 21, 2009 at 09:25 AM

As Dealbook reports, a New Jersey judge threw out a lawsuit filed by Canadian drugmaker Biovail Corp. against a hedge... More

The Chasm Between the Value of Print and Web Readers

A person buying the paper brings twenty times the revenue of an online reader

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 21, 2009 at 07:45 AM

After posting the unhappy news that newspaper ads are at 1965 levels, I thought it might be interesting to take... More

WSJ Weighs in on the Seattle Mayoral Race

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 20, 2009 at 10:08 AM

For the second time in three days, The Wall Street Journal gives prominent play to the Seattle mayoral primary*. To... More

Newspaper Industry Ad Revenue at 1965 Levels

Inflation-adjusted numbers show papers are even worse off than you think

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2009 at 04:40 PM

Martin Peers had a smart Heard on the Street in yesterday's Wall Street Journal on the critical question of how... More

The Post’s Misleading Deflation Number

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM

I hate it when I see numbers reported without necessary context. A Washington Post story today on the economy reports... More

Now We’re Blaming Lending Laws?

The WSJ tries—and fails—to tie strict laws to slow growth

By Dean Starkman   Aug 18, 2009 at 04:30 PM

The WSJ had an interesting story on how Vermont's strict lending laws have kept foreclosures down. But it goes off... More