The Audit

Brooksley Born, Finally on the Record

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM

The Washington Post gets the first interview with Brooksley Born since the crisis started and gives it a good run.... More

A Sin of Omission

The Atlantic finds an NYT memoirist withheld relevant information

By Ryan Chittum   May 22, 2009 at 04:25 PM

Megan McArdle of The Atlantic digs up some embarrassing information on The New York Times's Edmund Andrews, and the scoop... More

Welcome to the Jungle

Journalists, meet the all-or-nothing job market

By David Cay Johnston   May 22, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Reporter Dan Browning's piece on coming newsroom cuts at the St. Paul Pioneer-Press contains a curious detail that perhaps will... More

Bloomberg Shines on TARP Repayments

By Ryan Chittum   May 22, 2009 at 09:54 AM

This is why you've got to love Bloomberg's Mark Pittman. He takes a story, grabs on to the taxpayer angle,... More

breakingviews, Broken Logic

By Ryan Chittum   May 21, 2009 at 02:54 PM

This breakingviews column just can't seem to make up its mind how to back up its assertion—perhaps because that assertion... More

Former Head of Pension Insurer Pleads the Fifth

By Ryan Chittum   May 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Wow. The former head of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Charles E.F. Millard, has pleaded the Fifth Amendment to a... More

State Farm Is There (for Your Blog)

By Ryan Chittum   May 21, 2009 at 09:45 AM

The Journal looks at what's becoming an increasing issue: Bloggers getting sued for what they write. And it's not just... More

The Audit on the Radio

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2009 at 04:57 PM

Audit host Dean Starkman makes an appearance on NPR's Talk of the Nation to discuss his giant story "Power Problem,"... More

BW Catches the Press Recycling Obama’s “News”

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2009 at 04:24 PM

BusinessWeek has a smart piece of analysis on how the Obama administration's message control is playing out in the press.... More

The Times Gets It Right (Today) on Credit Cards

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2009 at 01:32 PM

Gary Weiss notices that the Times shifts course on credit cards on page one today. It's a good thing they... More

Obama Listens to Elizabeth Warren Even if the Press Does Not

WaPo scoops that a consumer regulator is in the works

By Ryan Chittum   May 20, 2009 at 09:50 AM

The Washington Post gets a nice scoop this morning on an actual good idea emanating from Washington: Setting up a... More

The Times Gives Card Companies Too Much Credit

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2009 at 01:55 PM

The Times's front page story on the coming credit-card crackdown doesn't really do it for me. The consumer-advocate response is... More

BlackRock Gets a Bruising from WSJ, NYT

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2009 at 09:46 AM

BlackRock gets a double scoop of (deservedly) bad press this morning on page one of The New York Times and... More

Hints of an Explosive Wall Street Story from FT’s Tett

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM

There's an interesting bit of reporting buried deep in this good Gillian Tett column in the Financial Times last week... More

No Jump for Nomura in the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 07:55 PM

This Journal story on Nomura Holdings upping its U.S. presence is a bit off. First of all there's the headline:... More