The Audit

The Times Takes on High-Frequency Trading

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 24, 2009 at 09:53 AM

The New York Times puts the high-frequency trading issue front and center on the nation's agenda this morning with an... More

Newspaper Readers Buy Papers for the Content

You’d think that would be obvious. Plus, the Walter E. Hussman Jr. Theorem

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 23, 2009 at 02:18 PM

(Note: This is part three of a three-part post. Read part one here and part two here.) I think it's... More

NYT Now Gets As Much Money from Circulation as from Ads

A landmark event for the rapidly changing newspaper industry that points toward a new model

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM

(Note: This is part two of a three-part post. Read part one here.) If current trend lines hold up, circulation... More

Circulation Revenue Only Thing Growing at Newspapers

McClatchy and New York Times Company find a revenue stream that goes up

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM

The New York Times reported some good news today, namely that it was profitable in the second quarter. But, of... More

Reuters’ Goldstein Raises High-Frequency Trading Issue

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2009 at 03:53 PM

Matthew Goldstein, the Reuters columnist who recently broke the Goldman Sachs code-theft story, has a good column today keeping alive... More

Covering the TARP Inspector’s Report

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2009 at 12:43 PM

CJR's Greg Marx notes that coverage of the report from TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky was all over the... More

Weiss Takes on the Limits of Press Power

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2009 at 09:32 AM

Gary Weiss has an interesting post up at his Web site on the limited power of the press. Someone emailed... More

The $1 BusinessWeek Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2009 at 03:32 PM

We haven't weighed in on BusinessWeek since news emerged that McGraw-Hill is seeking to unload the magazine. But I read... More

NYT: Where’s Obama’s Manufacturing Plan?

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2009 at 08:48 AM

The New York Times is good this morning to point out that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan for... More

Getting the New Journal (Mostly) Right

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2009 at 03:43 PM

Mark Potts has a good post at his Recovering Journalist site on The Wall Street Journal under Murdoch. Which is... More

When Financial Media Blogs Collide

Competing views of journalism emerge

By Dean Starkman   Jul 20, 2009 at 12:43 PM

As Ryan Chittum noted on Saturday, Yvette Kantrow, a columnist and editor with The Deal, a Wall Street trade publication... More

The WSJ Spotlights Working Class Woes

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2009 at 09:55 AM

The Wall Street Journal puts the woes of the working class front and center (on page one) today, using the... More

The Deal’s Audit Gotcha

Trade-mag editor falsely implies that we pull punches at CJR

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 18, 2009 at 05:19 PM

Anyone who's read half an Audit post would find it laughable to think that we bow down to Wall Street.... More

The Daily Show Gets Jim Cramer Again (and Bernie Goldberg)

But they’re not alone in their credulity on former baseball-star Lenny Dykstra

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 17, 2009 at 01:13 PM

If you haven't seen Jon Stewart's evisceration of former-baseball-star-turned-investment-guru-turned-bankrupt Lenny Dykstra, as well as some of his fawning admirers in... More

Ugly Numbers on Toxic-Asset Prices Signal More Trouble

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 16, 2009 at 04:26 PM

I've long called for more reporting on a critical question in the financial crisis: how much the toxic assets clogging... More