The Audit

WaPo Delivers a Much-Needed “Wait a Second”

The economy faces a long, hard path to any real recovery

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 18, 2009 at 02:13 PM

With all the positive talk about the economy in the press over the last couple of months, you'd think happy... More

WSJ Back to the Backdating Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 18, 2009 at 09:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal, which broke the massive options-backdating scandal three years ago in one of the great enterprise stories... More

Blowing Up a Feeble Defense of Ben Stein

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 17, 2009 at 02:12 PM

You'll recall Ben Stein's ethical lapse last month that got him fired from his plum Sunday business column in The... More

The NYT Looks at the FT’s Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM

The New York Times this morning posts a not-very-good look at the paywall strategy of the Financial Times's Web site.... More

Watching the Elizabeth Warren Coverage

Still not good enough

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 14, 2009 at 03:54 PM

I've beefed several times about the press giving Elizabeth Warren and her Congressional Oversight Panel short shrift. So I wanted... More

NYT Flashes Confusion in HFT Reporting

How much high-frequency trading involves “peeking”?

By Nina Mehta   Aug 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM

For a brief moment last week, “flash orders” ranked #2 on Google Trends, just below “cash for clunkers car list”... More

Sweet or Sour?

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 14, 2009 at 09:59 AM

Bloomberg has an investing story today that doesn't tell readers a critical piece of information about the motives of its... More

Weidner: Wall Street, Still Wayward

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 13, 2009 at 05:29 PM

David Weidner has a great column today on WSJ.com, but not in the newspaper apparently. Too bad. It deserves wider... More

If Congress Can’t Fend off the Classic-Car Lobby…

Who can it fend off? The LAT on a Cash for Clunkers loophole

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 13, 2009 at 08:00 AM

The Los Angeles Times has an interesting—if a bit late—piece of reporting on the Cash for Clunkers program, which has... More

Investor’s Business Daily Short-Arms Correction

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 12, 2009 at 06:24 PM

Investor's Business Daily corrected an embarrassing boo-boo in an editorial and in the process made another huge error. In an... More

NYT Puts Fox Business Spin in Context

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 12, 2009 at 02:49 PM

This one's a small thing, but one that too many journalists don't do—probably because we're stereotypically bad at math. Brian... More

The WSJ is Crazy for IG’s

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM

A rash of stories today in The Wall Street Journal about inspector-general reports on government agencies caught my eye this... More

The Judge Gets It Even If the Press Did Not

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 11, 2009 at 06:26 PM

Last week I was stumped by the weak press coverage (with one notable exception, at The Wall Street Journal) of... More

More on Credit Card Overlimit Policies

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 11, 2009 at 03:56 PM

I wrote earlier today about a Big Money piece on banks' dirty tricks and my own story of falling afoul... More

Half Right on Banks

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM

This Big Money piece has half its heart in the right place. In one part, it's a tough look at... More