The Audit

NYT Details Paulson/Goldman Contacts

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2009 at 06:02 PM

A tip of The Audit's hat to some old-fashioned muckraking in The New York Times yesterday. Gretchen Morgenson and Don... More

Gasparino, Arbiter of Cred

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2009 at 04:20 PM

So CNBC's Charlie Gasparino doesn't like The Audit—or at least Audit Big Chief Starkman. The feeling's not exactly mutual. I... More

Hype Machine In High Gear for Journal Jets Story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM

The Wall Street Journal, which we criticized on Friday for hyping and distorting a story on Congress buying jets, goes... More

WSJ’s Misleading Story on the Congress’s Jet Set

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 7, 2009 at 03:22 PM

Let's throw a little water on The Wall Street Journal's page-one scoop that Congress is buying eight private jets for... More

The New York Times Finally Cans Ben Stein

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 7, 2009 at 10:17 AM

Gawker scoops that The New York Times has finally given its Sunday Business columnist Ben Stein the ol' heave-ho, after... More

BusinessWeek’s Eye-Opening Banks Story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 6, 2009 at 03:37 PM

BusinessWeek has a terrific story out on how banks are once more gearing up their magic crap-making machines. The piece... More

Don’t Dismiss Taibbi

What the mainstream press can learn from a Goldman takedown

By Dean Starkman   Aug 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Mainstream financial journalism is doing its level, eye-rolling, heavy-sighing best to stuff Matt Taibbi back into the alt-press hole he... More

Journal: BofA Withheld News of Merrill Losses

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 6, 2009 at 09:54 AM

The Wall Street Journal scoops this morning that Bank of America knew two days before its shareholders voted (we had... More

Another FT Whiff on a Numbers Story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 5, 2009 at 01:46 PM

Two days ago I criticized the Financial Times for a weak story the paper saw fit to plop on page... More

In a Flash

When the press is on the ball and regulators regulate, you get results

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 5, 2009 at 10:23 AM

That didn't take long. The SEC is "considering a ban" or going to "push to eliminate" or "move to ban"... More

The Journal’s Geithner-Gets-Mad Scoop

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2009 at 02:56 PM

The Journal has a juicy scoop this morning on the goings-on inside the Obama administration. It seems Treasury Secretary Tim... More

The Biz Press’s Incomplete (Print) Efforts on BofA

But a Journal blog gets it right

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2009 at 10:42 AM

After news broke yesterday that the SEC had reached a $33 million settlement with Bank of America for misleading investors... More

When the Media Partied Like It Was, Well…

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 3, 2009 at 03:59 PM

David Carr's New York Times column today is a useful reminder that the good old days for the media business... More

The FT Calls This a Front-Page Story?

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 3, 2009 at 09:43 AM

The Financial Times has a poor story this morning on how Goldman Sachs's reputation has been battered by the negative... More

High-Frequency Trading and Crash Risks

Reuters’ Goldstein and an NYT op-ed raise questions about a potential feedback loop

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM

We've been keeping an eye on the high-frequency trading story since Matthew Goldstein of Reuters broke the story of a... More