The Audit

WSJ Compares German and American Safety Nets

By Ryan Chittum   May 7, 2009 at 09:15 AM

I like this Wall Street Journal page-one "leder" looking at the difference in the European and American safety nets and... More

Kindle a Newspaper Life Saver?

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2009 at 03:12 PM

Is this the gadget that will save the newspaper? That angle has been, if not dominant, then significant in the... More

Bloomberg Squawked, Regulators Balked

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Speaking of insider trading of credit-default swaps (you just can't get enough!), Felix Salmon of Reuters digs up a prescient... More

Credit-Default Swaps: WSJ vs. NYT

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2009 at 09:38 AM

Which story about insider trading of credit-default swaps would you rather read? Here's the Journal's C1 lede: The Securities and... More

The List

What the business press did (and didn’t do) while the financial crisis was brewing

By Dean Starkman   May 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Welcome to the List, a comprehensive catalog of relevant stories produced by major business-news outlets on the lending industry and... More

The Journal After Murdoch

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2009 at 05:12 PM

The latest issue of our magazine is out, and the first piece we've put online is Liza Featherstone's look at... More

What I Wanna Know: Bevis Longstreth

A former SEC commissioner offers questions

By Bevis Longstreth   May 5, 2009 at 02:58 PM

“What I Wanna Know” is a new series from CJR, in which we invite outside experts to propose questions about... More

BizWeek Takes on Confusing Contracts

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2009 at 01:53 PM

BusinessWeek uses the administration's plan to crack down on credit-card companies as a jumping-off point to look at how it... More

Bloomberg Cuts Through the Corporate-Tax Spin

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2009 at 09:19 AM

I like Bloomberg's tack on the Obama corporate-taxes story, reporting on real examples of tax avoidance—ones that counter Big Business's... More

John R. Wilke, Longtime Journal Reporter, Dies at 54

Investigated the nexus between business and politics

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2009 at 03:45 PM

Longtime Wall Street Journal reporter John R. Wilke died of cancer this weekend and it's a big loss for financial... More

WSJ Exposes the New York Fed Chairman

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2009 at 01:57 PM

The Journal fronts a scoop that the chairman of the New York Fed not only held Goldman Sachs shares in... More

Chrysler Cramdown in Context

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2009 at 09:17 AM

If you read the coverage of the Chrysler bankruptcy a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal and The... More

Bloomberg Pushes Hard on Credit-Raters Story

By Ryan Chittum   May 1, 2009 at 04:32 PM

Bloomberg has done a good job keeping the credit raters in the spotlight, and its latest story shines a harsh... More

WSJ’s Free iPhone App: Rupert “Displeased”

By Ryan Chittum   May 1, 2009 at 04:02 PM

I wrote last week that The Wall Street Journal was screwing up by not charging for its swell new iPhone... More

NYT Muni-Bond Story Effects Quick Change

By Ryan Chittum   May 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM

The good Times story on small-town Tennessee losing big on derivatives is getting quick results. The state is planning "revolutionary"... More