The Audit
The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked
Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:07 AM
The Wall Street Journal's coverage of Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday, which was packed with one... More
Audit Notes: Wall Street sheriffs, preprints, Globalization and workers
Supposedly in a “race to investigate, indict, subpoena and fine”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal would have you believe Wall Street is running scared from all the financial cops in New... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s hacking scandal, revolving door, Obama’s AMA
Two more arrests, including one for computer hacking
By Ryan Chittum Aug 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM
As Rupert Murdoch tells the world to go see Dinesh D'Souza's "scary" 2016 propaganda (read my 2010 takes on the... More
CNBC: kid gloves for bankers, boxing gloves for bank critics
Interviews with Barofsky, Spitzer, and Krugman underscore the network’s capture
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 12:13 PM
We're all for aggressively skeptical interviewing—I've often wished we could import Brits to do our presidential interviews, for instance. But... More
Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance
GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits
By Ryan Chittum Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Ezra Klein, anticipating a lot of Republicans disingenuously blaming Obama for the national debt, points to a Center on Budget... More
The NYT’s weak coverage of rental-car consolidation
With Hertz/Dollar Thrifty deal, three companies would have 94 percent of the market
By Ryan Chittum Aug 28, 2012 at 11:12 PM
The rental car business is a highly concentrated industry controlled by four companies. It's about to get much more concentrated,... More
Audit Notes: GOP gold bugs, too big to fail, Niall Ferguson
The myth of hard money
By Ryan Chittum Aug 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Republicans have put the gold standard (or at least a commission to study the idea) back in their party's... More
Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright
Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy
By Ryan Chittum Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy:... More
WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’
A mess of a story on Facebook
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a "give-it-away-free approach" that has hurt share... More
Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson
A document dump raises questions about tax strategies
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 01:55 AM
Gawker's John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them... More
The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED)
Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's hard to read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece on campaign fundraising without thinking about how embarrassing and corrupting it... More
Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams
Everyone but the magazine fact checks Niall Ferguson
By Ryan Chittum Aug 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Paul Krugman asks: We know what Ferguson is going to do: he’s going to brazen it out, actually boasting about... More
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle
A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown’s mag
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by... More
Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor
Replacing copyright with something called “creditright”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This may seem like a Fake Jeff Jarvis post, but it's real-life Jeff Jarvis: Creators don’t need protection from copying.... More
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED)
Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
By Ryan Chittum Aug 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM
The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: Bloomberg News: Apple Becomes... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
