The Audit

A-Rod, the WSJ, and A1

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Why is a huge headshot of Alex Rodriguez taking up half the above-the-fold space on page one of my Wall... More

LA Times Finds California Farms Not Hiring

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 10, 2009 at 08:37 AM

The LA Times has a very interesting story about how the recession is causing a surplus of farm labor in... More

The Times on the Times

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2009 at 03:30 PM

The New York Times's media reporter Richard Perez-Pena plows into the minefield to look at his own company's prospects for... More

Journal Is Wide-Eyed on a Potential Rebound

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2009 at 09:48 AM

The Journal is too contrarian for the sake of it in an Outlook column positing that the economy could be... More

NYT Catches Up with the Stock Analysts

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2009 at 08:29 AM

Stock analysts have been overlooked in this crisis, despite having a prominent role in the last stock crash just eight... More

Chart of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2009 at 05:52 PM

Karen Tumulty at Time posts this chart from Speaker Pelosi showing how much worse the job losses have been in... More

Wilke Was Itching to Go After the Madoff Story

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2009 at 05:10 PM

CORRECTION: In this post I said the Madoff story got caught up in the "Journal's labyrinthine editorial structure." In fact,... More

More on Madoff and the Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2009 at 01:26 PM

Jason Linkins of The Huffington Post runs through the email correspondence between Madoff's would-be slayer Harry Markopolos and WSJ reporter... More

Audit Interview: Mark Maremont

“Journalism, unfortunately—and even more these days—seems to be backward-looking.”

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Mark Maremont is one of The Wall Street Journal's top investigative reporters (and a senior editor), focusing much of his... More

The Big Money on Michael Lewis

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM

The Big Money, Slate's business site, runs a nice appreciation of Michael Lewis by its reporter Chadwick Matlin. Matlin not... More

Biz Press Largely Misses the TARP News

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 6, 2009 at 09:15 AM

The financial press way underplays a report by the TARP oversight panel that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson lied to the... More

Clueless Quote of the Day

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 5, 2009 at 02:00 PM

From a Journal story about how Wall Street is canceling junkets to luxury resorts. The Morgan Stanley decision comes as... More

This Post Has Nothing to Do with the Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM

And now for a much-deserved break from all the bad news. The Journal runs a terrific "ahed"—the name for the... More

WSJ Dominating the BofA Story

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 5, 2009 at 10:35 AM

The Journal has an excellent tick-tock on the deal between Merrill and Bank of America, showing how the government stared... More

The Times Looks at Executive Perks

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 5, 2009 at 08:41 AM

The New York Times takes a good look this morning at the excessive executive perks yet to be wrung out... More