The Audit

Audit Notes: The Pentagon’s Privatized Propaganda, Chesapeake, Inequality

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 10:43 PM

This story is just amazing: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to... More

The NYT Goes Backward on Digital Ads

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 05:14 PM

The New York Times Company's first quarter earnings, reported yesterday, left a lot to be desired. About.com, the company's web-only... More

Audit Notes: Luskin and Krugman, Bailouts, Minimum Wage,

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2012 at 02:18 AM

Brad DeLong catches Donald Luskin in a doozy. Luskin calls out Paul Krugman for saying in 2000 that the Dow... More

Excellent Reuters Probe Uncovers a CEO’s Billion-Dollar Loans

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2012 at 07:51 PM

Reuters has a fantastic piece of enterprise reporting on natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, reporting on serious conflicts of interest... More

Audit TV: Dean Starkman at the Narrative Arc Conference

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM

Take a look at Audit Chief Dean Starkman's speech last month to the Narrative Arc conference at Boston University. Dean's... More

Audit Notes: Bank Run, Silicon Valley Small-ball, Anti-Free

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00 AM

Michael Lewis, who says he sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Street movement, interviews himself on what he would do if... More

The New York Times Company in 2015

Trendlines—as of right now—don’t point to its demise

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2012 at 07:17 PM

Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? That's unknowable, of course. A lot can... More

What the Loebs Can Learn From the Pulitzers

By Felix Salmon   Apr 18, 2012 at 12:04 PM

I’m not a huge fan of journalism awards. The Pulitzers, in particular, are a peculiar fish: they tend to award... More

Audit Notes: French Capital, French Economists, Hulu’s Paywall

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2012 at 02:21 AM

Bloomberg's Mark Whitehouse is good to report that as the Eurocrisis flares again, with Spain in the spotlight now, investors... More

The Value of Prizes

By Dean Starkman   Apr 16, 2012 at 09:55 PM

I watched the Pulitzer announcements for the first time this afternoon, just upstairs in the World Room—and, well, it’s a... More

Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 16, 2012 at 07:49 PM

David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department... More

Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 08:05 PM

Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, writes a good Slate piece... More

Bloomberg Scrutinizes JPMorgan Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 06:58 PM

Bloomberg News has an important story today showing how press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase has ramped up risk in... More

The Minimum Wage in Context

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2012 at 02:18 AM

The New York Times reports that even in a weak economy, there's a fairly serious push for increasing the historically... More

Ebooks and Antitrust

The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2012 at 07:56 PM

Back in 2010, a giant retailer had 90 percent of a market—a near total monopoly (monopsony, if you want to... More