The Audit
Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes
Stephen Moore on how “the greens” supposedly want to plunge America into darkness
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life... More
Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat
Internal emails show companies scheming to lower bids on drilling rights
By Ryan Chittum Jul 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues to draw a bead on Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, whose scalp it will be claiming... More
Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work
The FT comes out in favor of hiving off investment banks
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 08:04 PM
This is important: The Financial Times editorial page comes out in favor of a Glass-Steagall II that would once again... More
Audit Notes: Spain’s Dilemma, Brits’ outrage on Libor, Audit Radio
Martin Wolf on how the country’s woes show the roots of the euro crisis
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 01:32 AM
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has an excellent blog post pointing out how wrong Germany and Co. are about... More
Inflating the regulatory state
TSA and border security account for almost all the increase in regulatory staff since 1980
By Ryan Chittum Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
A Bloomberg News story last week on how the folks who oversee the regulators are overmatched these days raises a... More
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace
Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM
CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More
News Corp.’s digital divergence
While print media converges on TV news
By Felix Salmon Jun 29, 2012 at 03:00 PM
There’s no secret why Rupert Murdoch is breaking News Corp into two pieces. Amy Chozick explains: News Corporation had evolved... More
Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their... More
The Libor lie unravels
A big win for the business press
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Way back in September 2007, the Financial Times's Gillian Tett started raising questions about the benchmark London Interbank Offered Rate—Libor—a... More
Audit Notes: News Corp. split edition
More on the implications of Murdoch’s move
By Ryan Chittum Jun 27, 2012 at 08:06 PM
The Financial Times's John Gapper has the best take on what Rupert Murdoch's bustup of News Corporation means: Some US... More
News Corp. ponders a split
Easing but not erasing the Murdoch discount
By Ryan Chittum Jun 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Shareholders have been carping for years that Rupert Murdoch should get rid of his newspapers and focus on the real... More
Audit Notes: Gannett profits, Spiegel grilling, private equity
By Ryan Chittum Jun 27, 2012 at 02:37 AM
At least Gannett is optimistic about the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports (emphasis mine): Gannett, publisher of... More
Bernanke goes mostly unheard on spending (UPDATED)
The press continues its spotty coverage of Fed’s fiscal views
By Ryan Chittum Jun 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I should say. Bernanke has talked... More
The WSJ bakes a bogus trend
And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story
By Ryan Chittum Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now... More
Audit Notes: NYT CEO search, Private Prisons, Morozov
Sulzberger looks for a boss with tech experience
By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2012 at 06:28 PM
Bloomberg News has new details on The New York Times Company's search for a CEO, which includes "aspirational" folks like... 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.
