The Audit
For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers
Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal
By Erika Fry May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt... More
The business press embarrasses Jamie Dimon
London Whale, sighted one month ago, knocks billions off JPMorgan’s worth
By Ryan Chittum May 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM
In what FT Alphaville called "the most excruciating bank conference call we’ve ever heard," press favorite Jamie Dimon announced last... More
Audit notes: Chesapeake woes, the Untaxable, Reuters on HSBC
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2012 at 07:34 PM
The hits keep coming at Chesapeake Energy. Today, it's The Wall Street Journal's turn. It reports on page one that... More
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course
Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry
By Ryan Chittum May 11, 2012 at 06:10 AM
The Washington Post Company‘s dismal quarterly earnings release last week was received with something of a shrug—more of the same.... More
Audit notes: WSJ dings austerity, Weisenthal, The Global Mail
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 07:58 PM
If you're looking to get up to speed on what happened with the euro and Greece, you could do a... More
Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps
New York cover story dispenses with named sources
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 02:12 AM
Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague... More
Clearly, Quartz wants to help elites go optimize themselves
The Atlantic’s new business site enters a crowded field catering to the 0.1 percent
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 12:58 AM
The Atlantic's big new business-journalism project is off to an inauspicious start. First there's the name: Quartz, which is different,... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Influence, Reuters’s Chesapeake drumbeat
A sweeping indictment of the corruption of British politics by News Corp.
By Ryan Chittum May 9, 2012 at 06:10 AM
The News Corp. scandal is so massive and so sprawling that it's just about impossible to bring all the pieces... More
Audit notes: News Corp.’s board, Lehman’s hubris, Awards and Slideshows
David Carr eyes Rupert Murdoch’s crony-filled board of directors
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2012 at 12:55 AM
David Carr takes a look at the News Corporation board of directors, which is as stacked with the CEO's cronies... More
The housing market at an inflection point
The Journal explains why bidding wars are starting to bubble up again
By Ryan Chittum May 7, 2012 at 07:00 AM
After seven or so years of bearishness on housing, I decided a few weeks back that the market was probably... More
Audit notes: Still pro-euro, foreclosures, privatized parking meters
An FT contributor says the UK doesn’t want to miss out on that Europe thing
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 05:24 PM
British Labour politician Peter Mandelson takes to the Financial Times to argue that, after all we've seen, the UK should... More
Facebook’s low, low ad rates
The Journal reports on the site’s problems with advertisers
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 04:00 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece on advertisers' doubts about Facebook. As I noted a few months ago,... More
The most important journalist in business news
Fox Business stakes a gilded claim for Neil Cavuto
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Quick: Who's the most important journalist in business news? Is it The Wall Street Journal's Robert Thomson or Paul Gigot?... More
Audit notes: Dollar dictator, the SEC’s small fry, Americans go Swiss
The Federal Reserve doesn’t answer solely to Ben Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 02:21 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien, whom you should really be reading, raises an important point lost in all the discussion about... More
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
By Dean Starkman May 3, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Mike Hudson began reporting on the subprime mortgage business in the early 1990s when it was still a marginal,... 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.
