The Audit

Learning Journalism Lessons of the Past

By Dean Starkman   Jun 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM

The Times this morning continues strong recent press performance on the busted-and-bailed-out banking industry's Golem-like resilience and continued potency in... More

Journal Remains Citi Scoop Central

By Dean Starkman   Jun 5, 2009 at 07:48 AM

Ryan Chittum has now left the undisclosed location in the D.C. area (Langley) where he works to go on vacation.... More

Audit Handoff

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 4, 2009 at 03:59 PM

Folks, I'll be on vacation until the 15th, but The Audit will go on in the meantime. Audit Manager Dean... More

Journal Drumbeat Continues on Wall Street Lobbying

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 4, 2009 at 02:01 PM

The Journal continues to shine a bright light on the efforts by Wall Street to go back to the way... More

Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Succeed, Too Few to Compete

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM

Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture takes on a relative of the "too big to fail" mess: what he calls... More

WSJ Continues to Hype Congressional Expenses Non-Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 4, 2009 at 08:59 AM

I've been somewhat baffled by the Journal's repeated page-one stories on congressional expenses. So far they've turned up just about... More

More on the Journal’s Banking-Lobby Story

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2009 at 05:50 PM

Andrew Leonard of Salon makes a nice catch on the Journal's bank-lobbying story this morning, one I read right by—perhaps... More

The Times Finds Countrywide (BofA) Up to Its Old Tricks

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2009 at 02:36 PM

The New York Times's page one today is loaded with business stories. My favorite is Peter S. Goodman's excellent one... More

More on Why Kindle Doesn’t Work for Newspapers

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM

It's good to see Jeff Bercovici land on his feet after Portfolio's demise. At Daily Finance, he quotes News Corp.... More

The Journal Continues to Focus on the Banking Lobby

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2009 at 09:31 AM

I've been impressed recently by the business press's—particularly The Wall Street Journal's—reporting on the aggressive lobbying by the financial industry... More

General Motors and a Newspaper “Classic”

The Wall Street Journal faced down a company at the peak of its power

By Richard J. Tofel   Jun 2, 2009 at 04:02 PM

In these days of automotive bankruptcies and newspaper closures, it may be hard to recall—even to imagine—that the auto companies,... More

WSJ: Citi Severs Huge Severance Packages

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2009 at 09:29 AM

There's been a common-sense sighting on Wall Street. The Journal scoops that Citigroup is refusing to pay tens of millions... More

WaPo Circles Back on Cox’s SEC

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2009 at 03:19 PM

I criticized the press last month for burying a blistering General Accountability Office report on the incompetence of Christopher Cox's... More

It’s the Times’s Turn on the Wall Street Rear Guard

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2009 at 09:31 AM

The Journal did some three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust work last week on Wall Street's retrograde lobbying efforts—particularly to keep credit-default swaps from being... More

Bloomberg (News) Takes the 2,3 Train to Wall Street

It finds the Metropolitan Transit Authority massively overpaid for a big bond issue

By Ryan Chittum   May 29, 2009 at 05:19 PM

Here's a great piece of watchdog journalism from Bloomberg, reporting that the Metropolitan Transit Authority sold a bond issue far... More