The Audit

Cognitive Dissonance of the Week

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 17, 2009 at 05:00 PM

The Syracuse Post-Standard has a fascinating report on one of the leaders of the local "tea-party" protest this week—you know... More

WSJ: Obama Official Caught Up in Pension-Scandal Inquiry

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 17, 2009 at 02:48 PM

The Journal today goes a good way toward catching up with the Times on the New York pension-fund kickback scandal... More

The Times Falls Short on Banks’ Health

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 17, 2009 at 10:40 AM

The New York Times writes on page one about the signs of recovery in the banking industry, but its story... More

Journal’s Awesome Pang Story Gets Quick Results

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 17, 2009 at 08:59 AM

The Wall Street Journal's epic story on the, um, questionable past of financier Danny Pang is already getting results. The... More

Bloomberg: Wells Fargo’s Numbers Don’t Add Up

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2009 at 02:24 PM

Wondering just how the banks' earnings reports have been so good? Me, too. Already we've seen Goldman Sachs fiddle with... More

New ProPublica Site Birddogs the Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2009 at 09:13 AM

The investigative outlet ProPublica has created a new site devoted to tracking the government bailouts. Called "Eye on the Bailout,"... More

A WSJ Tour de Force

A Wall Street Journal investigation paints a devastating portrait of a financier and shows the paper’s deep-reporting powers are far from gone

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2009 at 07:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal drops an incredible story on its page one today. It's one of the best stories I've... More

WSJ Finds a Renewed Foreclosure Push by Banks

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM

The Journal has a good story today reporting that some big banks are ramping up their foreclosure machines again after... More

WaPo: Economy’s Decline Slowing, But Don’t Say That

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2009 at 09:06 AM

This page-one Washington Post's story doesn't make much sense to me. Its premise is that Obama and Bernanke are getting... More

Times: Cuomo Is Eyeing Carlyle Group

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2009 at 05:44 PM

The Times got a nice scoop today, reporting that the white-shoe private-equity firm Carlyle Group is under investigation by New... More

The Press, NYT’s Norris Excepted, Gives Goldman a Pass

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM

News of Goldman Sachs's good first quarter is all over the business press today, as it should be. But the... More

FT Stays Ahead on Merrill Bonuses

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2009 at 08:55 AM

The Financial Times continues to get scoops in the Merrill Lynch/Bank of America bonus scandal. Today it reports that the... More

Only 3 Percent of Newspaper Reading Done Online?

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2009 at 06:43 PM

Martin Langeveld has been doing some interesting stuff over at Nieman Journalism Lab on newspaper numbers. I disagreed with parts... More

Journal Walks the Plank with Commodity News

“Arrrrrr,” says Audit

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM

So Rupert Murdoch wants the Journal to be a first read, to compete with The New York Times on general... More

WSJ Gives TARP Panel the Play It Deserves

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2009 at 08:57 AM

Good for The Wall Street Journal for giving a nice run to an exclusive that the TARP oversight panel is... More