The Audit

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

Fortune: The TALF Plan Has Wall Street Salivating

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 02:30 PM

The TALF bailout is coming online, and Fortune takes a good look at exactly how it works for the big... More

Deposed Trump Looks Very Bad in the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   May 18, 2009 at 09:46 AM

The Wall Street Journal has a hilarious story today using Donald Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times editor Timothy... More

Globe Pension-Insurer Story Gets Juicy

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2009 at 04:53 PM

Remember that pension insurance fund story I said to watch a couple of months ago—the one broken by The Boston... More

WaPo Sees an Incipient Trade War with Canada

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM

The Washington Post reports that the trade-war issue, which flared up briefly after "Buy American" clauses made it into the... More

WSJ’s Weak Hedge-Fund Story

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2009 at 09:56 AM

This Journal story today is frustrating. Investors in a fund run by hedge-fund impresario James Simons are ticked off that... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Keeps the Goldman Settlement Story Alive

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2009 at 05:13 PM

The press mostly stuffed the big news the other day that Goldman Sachs agreed to a $60 million settlement with... More