The Audit

Times Keeps an Eye on the Workplace

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM

The New York Times this morning looks at what's turned out to be the surprising work phenomenon of this recession—the... More

A Pecora-Style Commission Will Help the Narrative

By Dean Starkman   Jun 12, 2009 at 01:39 PM

This occurred to me while reading the extensive coverage leading up to, the live blogging of, the video, and next-day... More

Business Journalism Saves Planet

From near-certain disaster

By Dean Starkman   Jun 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM

Bloomberg has a nice item showing the power of the business press for good. Or at least the power of... More

Attitude Adjustment

By Dean Starkman   Jun 11, 2009 at 09:45 AM

Bloomberg's Jon Weil offers a helpful perspective on how to think about all these Wall Street goings on, such at... More

WSJ Flicks on Lights in a Wall Street Corner

By Dean Starkman   Jun 11, 2009 at 08:32 AM

A terrific story in the Journal this morning shines a light on what the country's brightest minds do all day... More

Ackman, Grueskin, Madrick, Morgenson, Starkman On One Stage

By Mike Hoyt   Jun 10, 2009 at 03:55 PM

Audit Readers, If we do say so ourselves, this was a great panel on where business journalism goes from here.... More

Man on Wire

By Dean Starkman   Jun 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM

I understand, of course, the American journalism convention to keep opinions out of news columns and to stick to verifiable... More

More Fed Coverage, Please

By Dean Starkman   Jun 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM

The MSMs all have short items on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's unusal subpoena of the Federal... More

Language Matters at the Globe

By Dean Starkman   Jun 9, 2009 at 04:30 PM

I wish The Wall Street Journal had taken better care in crafting the lede of its story on the Boston... More

“My Sources Say No”

By Dean Starkman   Jun 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM

That's the answer I got when I asked Magic Eight Ball whether our beyond-worst-case financial catastrophe will result in effective... More

Settlement Closes the Book on a Nigerian Tale

By Dean Starkman   Jun 9, 2009 at 08:35 AM

I, for one, enjoy a good civil trial. You never know what you might learn. The business papers this morning... More

Bloomberg With Nice Details on UBS Tax-Cheating Service

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 06:38 PM

A cool story from Bloomberg pries some nice details from the tax-avoidance case that for the last few years has... More

Guilty Pleasure

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 03:13 PM

I know it was last week's cover, but don't let my tardiness cause you to miss Steve Fishman's New York... More

When Mozilo Met Morgenson

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Before we get too far from the fraud charges the Securities and Exchange Commission filed against Angelo Mozilo last week,... More

The Sun, Times Follow the Subprime Muck

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 08:35 AM

The Baltimore Sun and New York Times recently gave some attention to under-reported social and class aspects of the mortgage... More